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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

New Plush Trailer – Cam Gigandet & Xavier Samuel get psychological

September 10, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment


Catherine Hardwicke stepped away from directing any of the sequels to Twilight, and now she’s taking taking things into psychological thriller territory with Plush. She’s also taken Twilight Saga stars Cam Gigandet and Xavier Samuel along for the ride.

The film stars Emily Browning as Hayley, lead singer of the rock band Plush. She is married to Carter (Cam Gigandet), with whom she has twins. However, tragedy strikes when her bandmate and brother, Jack (Thomas Dekker), dies of an overdose. His replacement, Enzo (Xavier Samuel), ends up being a great songwriting partner for Hayley. The duo soon take things further and begin sleeping with one another, but Enzo goes way over the line and becomes obsessed with Hayley, hiding some deep dark secrets that may have something to do with her brother.

Thomas Dekker and Frances Fisher also star in the movie, which is out in the US this week (but there’s no UK date as yet). [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Cam Gigandet, Emily Browning, Xavier Samuel, Thomas Dekker  DIRECTORS: Catherine Hardwicke  FILMS: Plush  

Bait (DVD)

April 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon, Sharni Vinson, Phoebe Tonkin
Director: Kimble Rendall
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 29th 2013

Bait is a movie about the unluckiest people in the history of mankind. An armed robbery is going on in an underground supermarket in Australia when a tsunami hits and completely floods the place. Many people are killed but the few survivors manage to find safety perching on top of the supermarket shelves. That’d be bad enough, but they soon realise they’re not alone, as the tidal wave has washed a man-killing great white shark into the shop with them.

Oh, and there’s also a live electricity wire sparking, which could kill them all if it hits the water. Suffice to say, nobody in this film is having a good day. [Read more…]

Two Mothers Trailer – Naomi Watts and Robin Wright want to sleep with each other’s sons

February 15, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


A movie about two women who want to sleep with each other’s sons sounds like it’s either going to be something sleazy or some sort of grossout comedy, but Two Mothers is actually based on a novella by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

The movie sees Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as two women who’ve been friends for decades and live next to one another on an Aussie beach. However their idyllic but lonely lives get a little more complicated when the women start eyeing each others sons – Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville – with more than maternal affection.

Anne Fontaine’s film certainly looks intriguing, although whether it can handle its tricky subject matter is yet to be seen.

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ACTORS: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel  DIRECTORS: Anne Fontaine  

Drift Trailer – Sam Worthington & Xavier Samuel go surfing

December 18, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Sam Worthington has gone back to Australia and gotten himself a wig (at least we hope it’s a wig) for the surf themes drama Drift. Myles Pollard and Xavier Samuel take the lead roles, with Worthington supporting.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Australia, 1970s. The Kelly brothers, Andy and Jimmy (Pollard and Samuel), have one great passion: riding big waves. As kids, their mother escaped from Sydney to Margaret River, a sleepy coastal town with some of the world’s most challenging and dangerous waves. For the next 12 years, the boys perfected their surfing skills, always searching for the perfect ride. Free-spirited Jimmy is a gifted surfer and innovator but he starts to slip toward a life of crime to help the family out of debt. Andy makes a big decision. Quitting a stable job, he bets on Jimmy’s surf inventions and his own business skills and launches a backyard surf gear business. They rethink board design, craft homemade wetsuits and sell their merchandise out of their van.

‘Encouraged by their new friends, travelling bohemian surf photographer and filmmaker JB (Sam Worthington) and his gorgeous Hawaiian surfer companion, Lani, who stirs the two brothers’ hearts, they start to seek ways to expand. After they get mixed up with a local drug dealer, it looks like everything they built up, will be ruined… Set in breathtaking locations and inspired by the true story of Australia’s legendary surfwear moguls, the film chronicles the rise of surf brands and the expansion of the laidback surf attitude as a global lifestyle. A story of passion and corruption, friendship and loyalty, deadly addictions and fractured relationships, DRIFT tells a tale of courage and the will to survive against all odds.’

It hits Aussie cinemas in 2013, but no UK release date has been set yet.

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ACTORS: Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel  DIRECTORS: Morgan O'Neill, Ben Nott  FILMS: Drift  

Crush Of The Day: Xavier Samuel

August 29, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Aussie actor Xavier Samuel hits UK cinemas on Friday in A Few Good Men, so it’s a perfect time for a bit of photo retrospective. Before he found Hollywood success playing Riley in Twilight: Eclipse, Xavier had a bit of a history playing gay in both the entertaining surfing drama Newcastle and the short movie Drowning (which was featured in the collection Boys On Film 6: Pacific Rim).

He’ll soon be seen in the likes of Plush, Bait and Drift, and we’re sure he’ll look very pretty in all of them. Click on the pics below for larger versions, and as a bonus we’ve got a vid of him in the buff from Newcastle at the bottom of this post. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Xavier Samuel  

Boys On Film 6: Pacific Rim (DVD)

May 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Xavier Samuel, Callan McAuliffe, Miles Szanto, Brian Moore, Chris Tempest
Director: Various
Running Time: 137 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 28th 2011

Read our reviews of the other Boys On Film short film collections here.

The Boys On Film DVD series of gay short film compilations heads to the opposite side of the world for an octet of movies from Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, South Korea and Hawaii. Perhaps a little less gay exclusive than previous releases, it’s a very eclectic bunch of films.

We’re reviewing all the Boys On Film discs ahead of the release of Boys On Film: Cruel Britannia on May 28th, so let’s take a look at the Pacific Rim shorts: [Read more…]

A Few Best Men Trailer – Kevin Bishop & Kris Marshall hang out with Olivia Newton John!

May 1, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


After Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, we didn’t hear a huge amount from director Stephan Elliot, partly because he nearly died in a skiing accident. However he returned a couple of years ago with the British period comedy, Easy Virtue. Now he’s helmed a full-on Anglo-Australian production with A Few Best Man. When David (Xavier Samuel) journeys to Australia to marry the love of his life, Mia, he invites his three best mates – Graham (Kevin Bishop), Luke (Tim Draxl) and Tom (Kris Marshall) – to travel with him. Having barely met his bride-to-be, they aren’t too impressed at the thought of losing their best friend to married life on the other side of the world but resolve to give him a send-off to remember. After a final carnage-filled stag night the big day arrives and the trio of ill-prepared best men end up giving a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘for better or worse’ as a chaos-filled wedding, complete with a deranged drug dealer, a cross-dressed sheep, a coked-up mother-in-law (Olivia Newton John) and possibly the most disastrous speech of all time, threaten to derail the marriage before it’s even begun! The movie hits UK cinemas August 31st.

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ACTORS: Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Olivia Newton-John  DIRECTORS: Stephen Elliott  FILMS: A Few Best Men  

Naomi Watts On For The Grandmothers

December 5, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Naomi Watts is going home, as THR reports that she’s signed on for the Australian movie The Grandmothers, which has just got the greenlight. French director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) will direct the movie, which is based on a novel by Aussie Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing and has been adapted for the screen by Christopher Hampton (Atonement, A Dangerous Method).

Watts isn’t the only actor onboard, as Robin Wright has signed up for the other main role, in this story of two lifelong friends who cause more than a bit of a scandal with they fall in love with each other’s teenage sons. The sons will be played by Twilight’s Zavier Samuel and Animal Kingdom’s James Frecheville. It’s billed as an ‘erotic tale of misguided love and a celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship’.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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ACTORS: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville  FILMS: The Grandmothers  

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