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

Political Animals (US DVD/VoD Review) – Taking a look at the first four gay California state representatives

June 5, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Jackie Goldberg, Christine Kehoe, Sheila Kuehl, Carole Midgen
Director: Jonah Markowitz, Tracy Wares
Running Time: 87 mins
Certificate: NR (US)
Release Date: June 6th 2017 (US)

Alongside the ‘great men’ theory of history, we also have a tendency to think in ‘great events’, and that the things that have changed society fell out of the sky fully formed. That’s certainly been true of gay rights, where you could be forgiven for thinking no one had considered there should be more equality until Stonewall in 1969, or that the whirlwind of gay marriage in the US was a couple of overtures (the legalisation in Massachusetts in 2004, and Prop. 8 in California) before the Supreme Court decision in 2015. However, there was a lot more to it than that, laying the political groundwork for what was to come.

Political Animals is a look at the first four openly gay people to be elected to the California state legislature, all of them women (although there were previous gay elected officials in California – not least Harvey Milk – they’d operated on a more local level, rather than state-wide). However, as well as looking at the women themselves, the film is keen to show the work they did promoting gay rights in California, particularly in terms of legislation that helped pave the way for gay marriage. [Read more…]

Shelter (Blu-ray)

November 22, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Jackson Wurth
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Running Time: 85 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: 24th October, 2011

The second of TLA’s Blu-ray releases (the other being Latter Days), the 2007 romantic drama Shelter gets an HD upgrade. The film stars Trevor Wright as Zach, a young man finding his feet in life in a small Californian town. Despite a desire to go off to art college, he’s slightly trapped by his sister, who relies on him to help her look after her son and treats him as if he’s obliged to be a surrogate father to her kid and has no choice in the matter.

Things begin to change when Zach’s best friend’s brother, Shaun (Brad Rowe), returns to the town. What initially starts out as a friendship develops into something deeper, with Zach finally finding someone he can express himself with and who seems to believe in him and his dreams. [Read more…]

Crush Of The Day: Trevor Wright In Shelter

November 14, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


As a film critic, you have to hope that while you’re going to be giving somewhat subjective opinions, you’re not going to like a movie more just because there are pretty people in it. However it sure doesn’t hurt. I was just rewatching Shelter so I can review the new Blu-ray version of it, and I’d completely forgotten just how cute the movie’s star, Trevor Wright is – so apropos of absolutely nothing here’s are som pics of him we can all enjoy.

Sadly his career hasn’t exactly gone stratospheric since 2007’s Shelter, with roles in the likes of Vacancy 2 and 2001 Maniacs 2, as well as the less than pivotal part of ‘B.U. Guy in Bra’ in The Social Network. He’s still young though so there’s always hope we’ll get to see more of his soon.

Oh, and look out for the Blu-ray review of Shelter coming very soon. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe  DIRECTORS: Jonah Markowitz  FILMS: Shelter  

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