I stumbled across a review for the film Big Fan today. I remember hearing about it when The Wrestler came out, as Robert Siegel wrote both scripts. The film’s been out since August, but it barely made a blip on any radar screens; It broke the top 50 in box office receipts just one weekend. [...]
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LeBron follows in Shaq’s footsteps. Be afraid.
Variety reports that Cleveland Cavalier (and probably future New York Knick) LeBron James is taking a shot at movie stardom.
The good news: he’s playing himself in “Fantasy Basketball Camp,” a comedy about five guys from different backgrounds who go to Las Vegas to attend the LeBron James Adult Basketball Camp, and manage to pull [...]
Shaq gets shifty over gay kiss
Make of it what you will, but Shaq was on Conan O’Brien’s show last night along with actor Demetri Martin. When talk turned to Martin’s gay character in the upcoming film Taking Woodstock, Shaq carressed Martin’s shoulder. But when Martin began to describe his onscreen gay kiss, Shaq reacted a little differently. How do you [...]
Gymnast turned underwear model
Freddie Stroma is an actor/model who appears in the new Harry Potter movie. Luckily for us, he’s also a gymnast, and he takes to the rings in a new underwear campaign for Acne (why didn’t they just call it “STD” or “Fat Ass”?) underwear.
A couple videos from the sexy campaign after the jump.
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‘Moneyball’ flick not quite dead yet
The Hollywood Reporter says that West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is going to take a shot at a draft of a script for Moneyball, the Columbia Pictures film that, if it ever gets made, would star Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. The film was previously put in “turnaround” status by the [...]
Bruno scores big, avoids wrestling beatdown
“Hi, I’m Bruno.” This Friday, the gayest movie of the year is released; I saw it tonight and just loved it. It’s a relatively short movie, but in those 85 minutes I laughed as hard as I’d ever laughed. Many of it was uncomfortable laughter, but when he talks about the lips of his Christian [...]
‘Training Rules’ director speaks out
Training Rules producer and director Dee Mosbacher wrote a short piece about how homophobia still rules in sports. In it she talks about the prevalence of homophobia in women’s sports despite the advances that society and some in sports have made. She lays out succinctly the biggest difference between gay men and lesbians playing elite [...]
“Moneyball” flick may be struck out
Variety reports that “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh film starring Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (not to be confused with openly gay former ballplayer Billy Bean) may be in trouble. The report says that Columbia Pictures has put the production in “limited turnaround” because studio head Amy Pascal felt the final draft [...]
‘Pop Star On Ice’ a June 11 must-see in NYC
For those of you in New York City tomorrow night (June 11), do yourself a favor and go to NewFest’s closing night film, Pop Star On Ice. It’s a documentary about Johnny Weir and it goes way behind the scenes of one of the most flamboyant characters in sports today. The film runs a range [...]
NewFest starts this weekend with sports films
If you’re going to be in New York City over the next week, be sure to check out some of the gay-sports films showing at NewFest:
Off And Running, June 6: Adopted children often face the dilemma of how much of their parents’ identities they can or should take on as their own. For Avery, [...]
Outsports co-sponsors NewFest sports films
We’re thrilled to announce that we have joined the NewFest team as a Community Partner, co-sponsoring the sports films they will be presenting June 4-11. NewFest is the annual gay film festival in New York city.
They have a great lineup of five films including the fantastic Training Rules about the Penn State women’s basketball program [...]
Johnny Weir is Pop Star On Ice
An upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary of the life of Johnny Weir is making its world premier at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 24. The film is called Pop Star On Ice, and there’s no word if it will talk about Johnny being a gay man on ice:
Johnny’s complicated relationship with his longtime coach Priscilla [...]
CNN tackles Rene Portland and new doc film
Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7, 3pm-4pm ET) on Rick Sanchez’s hour of CNN Newsrooom, the cable network will promote the fantastic new documentary “Training Rules” and talk about the damage that anti-lesbian policies and negative recruiting have on its victims. I was interviewed this morning for the segment; We’ll see if I said anything semi-intelligent. You [...]
Eastwood, Damon tackle rugby
There are few filmmakers I love more than Clint Eastwood. So I was excited to see some shots from his next film, The Human Factor, about South Africa’s run to the Rugby World Cup in 1995 that helped bring some unity to the country post-apartheid. The movie stars Matt Damon who, as you can see, [...]
Go see ‘The Wrestler’
Before any of the hype, I saw a trailer before a movie for a little upcoming film called simply “The Wrestler.” As I saw the trailer a couple more times and heard the early reviews, my expectations rose considerably. I finally got to see the film tonight, and it did what few films have done [...]
