Everyone remembers the iconic Coca Cola commercial, where a group of people of different ethnicities all stand together, with Coke in hand, signing "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing".

A new version of the commercial has appeared on YouTube, with the original commercial mixed with modern day Russian LGBT citizens dealing with the current anti-gay climate over there.

I loves Sofia Coppola, I absolutely loves her.

Her movies are brilliant, daring, entertaining, thought-provoking and original.

She's one of the very few filmmakers today that doesn't follow the rules and does exactly the movies she wants to make.

Moreover, she doesn't just know how to tell her stories right, she always finds the right stories to tell. She makes movies that matter

Take a look at The Bling Ring. It's not just entertaining and witty, it is also a great social commentary. Everything you need to know about today's youth is there: smartphones, consumerism, friendship, school, sexuality, drugs, it's all there.

Now compare this to the other heist movie everyone's been talking about: American Hustle.

I can't say much about American Hustle because I slept through most of the movie but this is the exact opposite of The Bling Ring: it tries really hard to be both entertaining and thought provoking (maybe some kind of metaphor of the financial crisis, I don't know and I don't care) but fails miserably at both.

Protest over cardinal's remarks that homosexuality - like his own high blood pressure - can be treated

26 January 2014 | By Sylvia Tan

Almost 30 protesters gathered for a kiss-in at the gates of Malaga Cathedral in the southern Spanish city last Thursday to protest newly chosen Spanish cardinal Fernando Sebastián's recent remarks that homosexuality is a "defect" that can be corrected with treatment.

Earlier this week, he made the international headlines when he told Diario Sur, a newspaper in Malaga, his views on homosexuality.

The 85-year-old, who compared homosexuality to health defects such as his own high blood pressure, said: "A lot of people complain and don't tolerate it but with all respect I say that homosexuality is a defective way of manifesting sexuality, because that has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation... We have a lot of defects in our bodies. I have high blood pressure. Am I going to get angry because they tell me that? It is a defect I have that I have to correct as far as I can...

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/prote...eated26011

Siblings jailed for attempt to kidnap sister's girlfriend

[SIZE="4"]Judge says siblings of Nazma Dizza were motivated by religious and racial hatred and disapproval of her sexuality

Helen Pidd, northern editor, and Leila Haddou[/SIZE]

Six siblings from a "traditional Asian Muslim family" in Lancashire have been jailed after attempting to kidnap the white lesbian lover of one of their sisters, threatening to kill her because she had "messed with the wrong Muslims".

Sentencing them to between three-and-a-half and six years in prison, the judge said they had been motivated by religious and racial hatred as well as disapproval of their sister's sexuality.

"This case is about power and control," Judge Graham Knowles, QC, told the family at Preston crown court on Friday. "It's about striking terror into the heart, in order to control not just the body but also the will."

Almost three years ago Nazma Ditta, one of nine children from Blackburn, began a secret relationship with Sarah Harrison when both women worked at a clothes shop in Blackburn, Preston crown court heard.

Unhappy that Nazma, now 28, was in a same sex relationship – and with a white non-Muslim woman – six of Nazma's siblings plotted to break up the relationship. They claimed a teacher at a mosque had told them to "take action now or it might be too late" and had given permission "to be violent", the court heard.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/...girlfriend

A buddy asked me to report what I thought about this movie after I watched it .
It was pretty good, and the final song at the end of the movie was.... EPIC!


music actually starts at 40 secs

What did you guys think of the movie, how many Tolkien fans we got on here?

I was just wondering what you guys things cause sometimes I just think in the mainstream movies are getting pretty bad and I really feel I need to watch a film from the 80s and 90s cause somethings been lost. There are OBVIOUSLY exceptions.

Theres too many sequels and remakes, you can almost feel there trying really hard for the audience to like a film but its just a mixture of old film parts and hasnt got a real heart.

I think modern films with modern techniques can be really good and visually amazing but when its bad its really bad, whilst before even like sets made of tinfoil seem more real cause they are real

And theres something nice about old picture qualitys that isnt HD or crystal clear cause life isnt HD.

So guys, in films who do you think had the best acting?
IE played their role(s) perfectly.

I personally don't have a best because four people in my humble opinion were solid 10/10
In a specific role.
A certain forum member may agree entirely or disagree completely with my first up

Heath Ledger - Joker - Dark Knight
Johnny Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
Val Kilmer - Doctor Holiday - Tombstone
Robert Downey Jr - Iron Man - Iron man

There are so many awesome actors like Sean Connery is epic in anything so is Morgan Freeman. So who all do YOU guys feel did a perfect job in a single movie? feel free to go in depth or simply post a name .

Ok, something that is definitely associated with "gay" people......musicals. Something we have ALL been stereotyped with.

So.....if you like musicals (movies, NOT stage productions), what are your favorites??


Here are some of mine:










And I think my favorite is

Hiii,

So was wondering if anyone else here likes to watch them..? I do when
the mood strikes. I've watched a few as of late, 'This Film is Not Yet Rated',
'Bullying', 'Bridegroom', and 'There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane'.

They don't really have to be about LGBTQ topics, anything really..!

Just pretty much clicking on play if the tittle strikes, but looking for
suggestions if anyone knows of really good tittles

Did anyone see Masters Of Sex? What did you think - I loved it