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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

Legends Of Tomorrow – Season 1 (Blu-ray Review)

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While Marvel has had great success in cinema but struggled more on TV, it’s generally been the other way around for DC. Arrow was soon joined by The Flash, then came Supergirl, online animated series and now Legends Of Tomorrow, with more shows planned. Legends certainly came with a lot of promise when it was first announced – a sort-of time-travelling equivalent of The Avengers – filled with lesser-known heroes (and villains), most of whom had been introduced in other DC shows.

Arthur Darvill plays Rip Hunter, who’s had a promotion since playing luckless companion Rory in Doctor Who, as he’s now a Time Master (not Lord), with his own equivalent of the TARDIS. Hunter comes from a future that has been taken over by the evil Vandal Savage, a 4,000-year-old immortal. Although he’s been banned from meddling in the past, Rip goes rogue, commandeering a time ship and heading to the 21st Century to put together a band of heroes, who will travel through time with him, trying to find Savage at various points in history so they can destroy him. [Read more…]

Victor Garber Marries His Longtime Partner Rainer Andreesen

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victor-garber-rainer-andreesenA veteran of Broadway, Canadian born Victor Garber has become an increasingly familiar face on TV and film over the years in the likes of Titanic, Tuck Everlasting and Legally Blonde, while Alias fans will recognise him as Jennifer Garner’s spy father. He’s also gay, something that was an open secret for many years but which the actor only confirmed in early 2013.

Now he’s taken it one step further, as he headed off to Tofino, British Columbia to marry his partner of 16 years, Rainer Andreesen. The wedding took place last weekend, although few other details have been released.

Andreesen confirmed the news on Instagram, with the picture below and the message, “YES WE DID! #justgotmarried#elopedintofino #canada@therealvictorgarber #after16years.”

All we can add is, congratulations Victor! [Read more…]

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Big Game (DVD Review)

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Big Game will not be winning the award ‘Most Sensible Movie Of The Year’. Indeed it reaches Fast & Furious levels of preposterousness, where you either have to submit to its inherent silliness or alternatively break down in tears and decry the state of modern entertainment. Personally I went for the former.

The US President (Samuel L. Jackson) is flying to some important talks when an evil terrorist (played by an actor who looks the dictionary definition of ‘stereotypical foreign bad guy’) blows Air Force One out of the sky. The Pres is put in an escape capsule and dropped into the middle of the remote Finnish wilderness. [Read more…]

Continuum (DVD Review)

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You have to admire sci-fi that really wants to be intelligent, even if it’s not actually as smart as it thinks it is. That’s certainly true of Continuum (known as I’ll Follow Your Down in the US), which wants to bring together time-travel, wormholes and quantum theory to create a tale that considers the idea of what it would mean to change your past so that your present never happened. However it’s not really that smart and seems to ignore many of the most important implications of what it’s talking about.

Gabe (Rufus Sewell) heads off on a business trip but never returns, leaving his wife (Gillian Anderson) and young son Errol with no clues as to what happened to him – he never checked out of his hotel and has completely disappeared. 12 years later his wife still hasn’t gotten over what happened, while the massively intelligent Errol (now grown up to be Haley Joel Osment) is trying to make his way in the world as a young adult. [Read more…]

Argo (Blu-ray)

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Although it’s not too unusual for the winner of the Best Picture Oscar not to also pick up the Best Director gong, it’s very rare for the winner of the biggest prize not to even get a nomination for its helmer. However that’s what happened with Argo, marking the first time it’s occurred since Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. (Incidentally it’s also now tied with Gigi as the Best Picture winner with the shortest title).

It was a real oversight on the part of the Academy, because it’s not like Ben Affleck’s direction is irrelevant to the movie’s success. Indeed it’s him probably more than anyone else who makes the film work. [Read more…]

Titanic & Alias Star Victor Garber Confirms That He’s Gay

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victor-garberAs with Jodie Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday, we’ve got another, yes-we-kind-of-knew-that-already coming out today – this time Victor Garber. A veteran of Broadway, Canadian born Garber has become an increasingly familiar face on TV and film over the years in the likes of Titanic, Tuck Everlasting and Legally Blonde, while Alias fans will recognise him as Jennifer Garner’s spy father. He’s recently been seen in Argo and is heading back to TV for the series Deception.

It was while promoting that show that he was interviewed by Greg in Hollywood blogger Greg Hernandez, who approached him about some info on Wikipedia, which said Garber’s partner is a man called Rainer Andreesen. When Anderson asked, “I wondered if that’s something public, that you’ve confirmed.”

Greg wrote, “He seemed surprised by the question but said: ‘I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows.’ Garber then added: ‘He’s going to be out here with me for the SAG Awards.’”

It’s not the first time the info has come out (hence why it’s on Wikipedia) as it has been mentioned in some previous articles, but it is the first time Garber has specifically addressed it.

Hopefully Andreesen will be able to see his partner pick up an gong when he attends the SAG Award, as Victor in nominated for Best Ensemble as part of the Argo cast.

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