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  • HBO Cancels Gay Drama Looking

    HBO has just announced that it has cancelled the TV series ‘LOOKING’ after just two seasons and this summer it will wrap up the storylines with a one hour special.

    In a statement issued today a spokesman said, “after two years of following Patrick and his tight-knit group of friends as they explored San Francisco in search of live and lasting relationships, HBO will present the final chapter of their journey as a ‘special’’’. They added, “we look forward to sharing this adventure with the shows loyal fans.”

    HBO have claimed that Looking had never been a strong ratings performer, but executives were very impressed with the buzz the show had created on social media and it’s growing band of viewers that sadly started to fall off in the second season.

    Created by Michael Lannan and executive produced by Andrew Haigh (director of Weekend), Looking stars Jonathan Groff, Frankie J.Alvarez and Murray Bartlett who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men in San Francisco. It also co-stars Lauren Weedman, Raul Catillo and Russell Tovey

     

  • Russell Tovey Gets Rimming Cake For His Birthday

    Actor and hunk Russell Tovey showed off his massive, chocolate rimming cake yesterday for his birthday.

    The 33-year-old actor showed off a massive chocolate cake which was given to him by the cast of HBO’s Looking, which he is currently filming, along with Jonathan Groff.

    The comedy-drama is currently filming its second series and is the only current TV show made for gay men.

    The huge cake had the inscription: ‘Happy Birthday Russell! Birthdays are like rim jobs, you gotta get involved. Open up and get ready for another great year!’

    Indeed – that cakes given us ideas.

  • Russell Tovey Shares Cute Kissing Photo From News Series of Looking

    Hunky Russell Tovey has shared a sneaky picture from the set of HBO’s new series of Looking…

    https://twitter.com/russelltovey/status/525314796967583747/photo/1

    The star, who is currently in the US filming the second series of HBO’s Looking, captioned the picture, ‘So in love’.

    In the show Russell plays Kevin Matheson, described as a “video-game wunderkind” who has feelings for one of his employees, Patrick Murray, played by Jonathan Groff.

    Looking is one of the only television series to focus solely on gay storylines since Queer As Folk, which ended in 2005.

    Russell recently starred in a film called Blackwood, which TheGayUK’s Greg Mitchell gave four stars.

  • Russell Tovey, Ellen, Neil Patrick Harris, Harvey Fierstein React To Robin Williams Death

    Russell Tovey, Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Harvey Fierstein and many more stars have given their reaction to the death of comic legend, Robin Williams.

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  • FILM REVIEW | Blackwood

    ★★★★ | Blackwood

    If you had just recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, it might seem like a good idea to relocate with your wife and son to a lonely old house in the middle of a remote wood. Or so you might think. Wrong. The house, it seems, is harbouring a dark secret and Ben Marshall (Ed Stoppard) is determined to get to the bottom of it.

    Blackwood is a modern ghost story cum psychological thriller in the tradition of period pieces like The Woman in Black. According to director Adam Wimpenny and writer J.S. Hill, the team gleaned inspiration from Nicolas Roeg’s darkly atmospheric Don’t Look Now and Joseph Losey’s bleak character-led drama Accident. I’m not sure this move is on the same level of inspiration as either of those two masterpieces, but it is consistently gripping, gradually building the suspense and keeping you guessing till the end when suddenly, and tragically, everything falls into place. I do abhor those thrillers which leave you somehow hanging in mid-air at the end. This one definitely gives you a finale.

    The film looks good too with great cinematography from Dale McCready, and Adam Wimpenny has got some great performances from his cast. The name best known to most of us will be Russell Tovey, fresh from his performance in HBO drama Looking, though here in a supporting role, convincingly playing against type as the sinisterly troubled war veteran Jack and looking pretty buff too. Ed Stoppard plays a highly strung Ben, a man desperately trying to hang on to control but gradually unravelling as the film progresses. As his wife Rachel, Sophia Myles is warmly feminine, concerned for her husband and fiercely protective of her son Harry (a really nice unaffected performance from young Isaac Andrews). Completing the cast is Greg Wise as Ben’s womanising best friend and colleague Dominic, and Paul Kaye as the enigmatic local priest Father Patrick.

    With a little more depth of character than we often get in thrillers or ghost stories, it is an eminently watchable movie, sure to give you the odd start.

    Blackwood opened in cinemas across the UK on August 1st