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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

Supergirl – Season 1 (Blu-ray Review)

July 24, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Mehcad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan, Calista Flockhart
Director: Various
Running Time: 880 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 25th 2016 (UK)

DC Comics may be having a slightly bumpy ride building a cinematic comic book universe, but it’s certainly having plenty of success on the small screen. Arrow was joined by The Flash, which last season was joined by Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow, all taking place within the same universe (and there’s also Gotham slightly off to one side).

As you may have noticed, Supergirl is the first of those that has centred around a female hero. She’s a character that hasn’t had much luck on the screen before, partly because there’s previously been a tendency to treat her like the pretty damsel in distress, even though she’s got lots of superpowers. This new series tries to reverse that, and early on spends a bit of time commenting on the potential sexist problems, from that fact she’s a Super ‘girl’ rather than ‘woman’, to journalists asking her whether she’s going to start a family. [Read more…]

Actor Jeremy Jordan Is Raising Money To Save Cousin From Ex-Gay Facility, While Parents Issue Denial

June 9, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jeremy-jordanJeremy Jordan is an actor and singer, known for the likes of The Last Five Years and Joyful Noise, as well as TV’s Smash and most recently Supergirl (where he plays Winn Schott). However, he’s currently dealing with a large amount of family drama, as he’s launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for a lawyer to help get his cousin out of what he says is a ‘pray the gay away’ ex-gay facility.

He writes: ‘Meet my cousin Sarah. At 17, her future looks bright. She is in the top 10% of her class, runs cross-country and belongs to the National Honor Society and the debate team.  She is also gay.  Like any high school kids in a relationship, Sarah and her girlfriend wanted to go to prom together.  But when they did that, Sarah’s parents, who believe that homosexuality is a sin and abnormal, sent Sarah away against her will to an East Texas Christian boarding facility for troubled teens to “pray away the gay.”

‘Not only does this type of “therapy” not work, mental health professionals from organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have found it to be psychologically damaging, especially for minors.  And Sarah has been told that she must stay in this facility for a whole year.  So instead of being surrounded by friends and extended family who love and support Sarah for who she is, she’ll be isolated in a place where the fact that she is gay is treated as a sin and an illness. Instead of preparing for college and competing in the state debate tournament, she’ll be doing forced labor every day and enduring Bible-based “therapy” for her “disease.”

‘She is not allowed phone calls or email or any form of computer communication.  She is also not allowed visitors and cannot leave the property.   She is completely cut off from the outside world. She tried to run away, but was caught by the staff and returned to the facility.

‘Sarah’s extended family and close friends are trying to win her release through the legal system, but it’s not cheap.  Attorney’s fees in the first few weeks have already exceeded $20,000, and they are continuing to mount, with a full hearing set for July.  Sarah needs your help.  But this is about more than just one gay kid – if we free Sarah we can help show that it’s not okay to try to make gay teens straight by sending them away and using the threat of God against them.’

Since the campaign was launched, the parents of the girl have issued a denial that she was sent to the ‘school’ because if her sexuality, telling the Austin American-Statesman, ‘”My daughter would be heartbroken that she is being misrepresented this way”. In court documents, Sarah’s family says that she’s at the school to, “help her with issues of depression, self-harm, drug use, and behavioral issues.”‘

However, family law attorney Christine Andresen, of CHA Law Group, PC, who is the lawyer hired by Sarah’s aunt to help get her released, counters to People that, “I can’t comment on pending litigation, other than to authenticate that to the best of my knowledge, the background information on the GoFundMe shared by Sarah’s cousin is truthful.”

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The Last Five Years (DVD Review)

May 4, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Running Time: 91 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: May 4th 2015 (UK)

Normally movie musicals are set in a heightened reality, not just due to the fact that everyone is singing, but also because the universe itself is shifted to the side. Even something like West Side Story is obviously in a fantasy version of New York, several steps away from reality. However The Last Five Years takes a look at a very real story (indeed it’s based on a tumultuous marriage the musical’s writer, Jason Robert Brown, had when he was in his 20s), and sets it in a realistic New York.

Everyone may be singing and it may play with time in unusual ways, but the world and the characters are extremely grounded, with plenty that everyone will be able to recognise from their own relationships. [Read more…]

The Last Five Years Trailer – Anna Kendrick & Jeremy Jordan get romantic in the musical tale

December 9, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

last-five-years-slideA touching story of heartbreak and passion, The Last Five Years, based on the hit off-Broadway musical, stars Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan in this honest and funny portrayal of the highs and lows of a five year relationship.

Told almost entirely through song from a score by Jason Robert Brown, the film, which received its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is directed and adapted for the screen by Richard LaGravenese and will be released across the UK in Spring 2015.

Filled with the lively energy of New York City’s cultural milieu, the film tells the story of the five-year relationship between rising novelist Jamie Wellerstein (Jeremy Jordan) and struggling actress Cathy Hyatt (Anna Kendrick). As Jamie’s new novel vaults him to the top of the literary scene, Cathy is still doing summer stock in Ohio, and their diverging levels of success pose pressing and dire challenges to their love. The film tells Cathy’s side of the story in reverse order, starting from the end of their marriage, while Jamie’s version of events begins when the couple first meets. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan  DIRECTORS: Richard LaGravenese  FILMS: The Last Five Years  

Joyful Noise (DVD)

November 1, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Dexter Darden
Director: Todd Graff
Running Time: 112 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: November 5th 2012

I don’t consider myself a particularly stereotypical gay man, but that all changes when it comes to Dolly Parton, who has the innate ability to bring out my inner screaming queen.

I’m oddly unashamed about my love for Dolly Parton. Therefore I’m more than a little excited about the fact that Joyful Noise brings her back to movie screens in a starring role for the first time since Straight Talk in 1992. It’s not a completely triumphant return but the film is quite fun. [Read more…]

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