Bruce LaBruce Talks About His New Film Project, Gerontophilia!

Bruce LaBruce’s next film will be Gerontophilia, a love story of sorts — the director describes it as a “reverse Lolita” — between an eighty-one year old man and an eighteen-year-old boy. The old man, Mr. Peabody, lost the love of his life, Smitty, when they were both in their twenties in a swimming accident. Alone for most of his life, and finally abandoned in an assisted living facility, the old man succumbs to the cruelty of the institution where he is confined, overmedicated with psychotropic drugs and sometimes even tied down with restraints.

A Song Of Love: Mark Simpson’s Ode To Jean Genet

Today is Jean Genet’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1910. This reflection on his only film, the hypnotic Un Chant d’Amour, is one of Mark Simpson’s classics. At the end of Mark’s review, please find our special feature presentation.
Set in a French prison, Jean Genet’s only film was a silent, black and white 25 minute “porno” movie intended for sale only to rich homosexual private collectors.

FADE IN: Trailer For James Franco’s Cruising Movie Project!

The trailer for Interior. Leather Bar, where filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews reimagine the fabled lost footage from William Friedkin’s misunderstood Cruising is now up.
View it along with a handful of terrific new images from the interesting project after the jump.

The Night I Kissed Tom Hanks: David Drake Reflects On Philadelphia

How It Happened:
Being cast in Jonathan Demme’s first film after he won the Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs would be thrilling for any actor. That Demme was following up this huge success with a big-budget, Hollywood-financed movie about a gay man who fights the discrimination he faced because he had AIDS was, in a word, extraordinary. Especially for me.

Halloween Special: Renaissance Man Conner Habib Revisits The Cabin In the Woods

If you don’t believe in a world ruled by secret, unseen forces that control how we think, feel, and treat others, there’s a quick remedy to your delusion: Tear a twenty dollar bill into tiny, useless pieces. Better yet, do it in front of a friend. One or both of you will gasp, feel sick, feel remorse. All over a little piece of paper.

Nightcharm Exclusive: We Have the Leaked Script of the Brokeback Mountain Sequel!

SCOOP! The sequel for Brokeback Mountain is currently filming, and some enterprising best boy has snatched the following couple of pages from the shooting script and stolen away from the studio backlot. Behold, this pivotal scene in the sequel to Brokeback Mountain, scheduled for a Oscar season 2013 release:
BROKEBACK II: THE REUNION
THE ROXY, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1990. Go-go boys, thumping music.

A Very Special Person: The Young Russell Crowe

 
About ten thousand beers and some weighty, suck-my-cock attitude have steadily transformed Russell Crowe into the swarthy, phone-throwing leading man loved and wanked over by fans around the world.
His current vibe suggests the malevolent aura of an insatiable, angry top, which is odd, because Russell used to seem so much more easygoing — pliant, even. Indeed, back in the day — that is, somewhere between his days as 1980s Sydney cabaret entertainer Rus Le Roq (lots of eyeliner) and Gladiator — he was the lithe, earnest star of this hilarious yet horrifying recruitment video for an outlet of the Seventh Day Adventist church:
 

 
You may have forgotten: Just before he went to Hollywood, Rusty starred in the underrated Australian film The Sum Of Us, where he played a burly gay Balmain boy (Balmain is a famously working class suburb of Sydney) who only wears a shirt if he’s dressed up for a night on the town, where he ventures to look for a partner on the gay scene, which he doesn’t really understand.

Eye of the Tiger: How To Survive A Plague

Watching the new and highly-acclaimed documentary How To Survive a Plague was very strange for me. I think that’s because the film’s story — the fierce battle against the AIDS epidemic that was fought in the late 1980s and early 90s by AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) and its offshoot the Treatment Action Group (TAG) — is my story.