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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Bel Ami (Blu-ray)

July 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
Director: Hugh Hudson
Running Time: 102 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 23rd 2012

Robert Pattinson in a drama that’s all about sex and power should be enough to have teenage girls  (and many a gay man) wetting their knickers, although this certainly isn’t a film for twi-hards. Pattinson plays George Duroy, who in 19th Century France leaves the army and heads to Paris to make his fortune. He soon realises that he needs contacts, and that even if he can get one or two of those, no one is simply going to hand him the treasures he wants.

The fact he has few skills would seem an impediment, but what he’s well aware of that he has one thing in his favour, he’s irresistible to women. This starts to become his way into Parisian high society, picking the ladies who can offer him his next step up the ladder. His conquests include the forthright and astute Clothilde (Christina Ricci), the devoted and normally faithful Virginie (Kristin Scott Thomas), and Madeleine (Uma Thurman), a woman who in the modern day would be smashing through the glass ceiling, but in 19th Century France has to settle with being a professional wife whose light must shine through the men she’s with. [Read more…]

Chariots Of Fire – 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

July 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
Director: Hugh Hudson
Running Time: 123 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: July 16th 2012

God bless the 1920s, when everyone ran in slow motion to the strains of a synthesiser, and the Olympics was like a giant version of a school sports day. It’s 30 years since Chariots Of Fire was released and stormed to Best Picture Oscar glory, and it’s no surprise the film is getting a Blu-ray release shortly before the 2012 Olympics get underway.

Since it came out, there’s been much debate over whether it’s really a good movie or not, with some classing it as one of the most overrated films ever. That’s partly because many don’t understand how it won Best Picture (and to be honest, I’d be willing to bet it was of a split vote on the other contenders – Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond and Raiders Of The Lost Ark. However it’s not a bad movie, it’s just not a great one. [Read more…]

Brazil (Blu-ray)

December 7, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Director: Terry Gilliam
Running Time: 137 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: December 5th, 2011

A masterpiece to some, a source of utter befuddlement to others, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has been dividing opinions now for over 25 years. Now it reaches Blu-ray, which is certainly a good way to show off the film’s extraordinary production design.

Set in a dystopian mix of the future and the past, Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, a man trying to live a quiet life as part of a vast bureaucracy, but who has extravagant dreams where he’s a flying, monster-slaying hero. During his waking life though, he’s mainly trying to be efficient and stop his plastic surgery obsessed mother from pushing him around. [Read more…]

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