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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

One Kiss (Un Bacio) (DVD Review)

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Life being a teenager certainly isn’t always easy. Lorenzo is just out of foster care and living with new parents. He’s openly and visibly gay, and in his head he’s a star in the making. However, on his first day at school he’s rudely shown that irrespective of his fantasies, the other students dislike difference and there will be no place for him in their cliques.

Blu is also subject to the school’s normativity, having been ostracised by her classmates and labelled a slut after it was discovered she had an orgy with her boyfriend, Gio, and three of his friends. She and Lorenzo quickly start to bond, finding common ground in their outsider status, and also manage to drawn in the quiet and shy Antonio. [Read more…]

Cleanskin (DVD)

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Ewan (Sean Bean) is a British secret service agent who starts to realise that a dangerous terrorist plot in being planned. While being manipulated by his superiors, he’s essentially given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to get to the plotters, something he’s more than happy to do, as he wants revenge for the atrocity that took his wife. However he starts to realise he’s mixed up in an ever deepening conspiracy.

Ewan’s incredibly violent and single-minded journey is contrasted to young Muslim Ash, the man who’s going to commit the suicide bombing. In flashback we discover how he got radicalised, while in the present things get ever more vicious as he prepares himself for what he believes he must do. [Read more…]