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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

Mixed Messages (DVD Review) – A lesbian experiences a year of being single in queer Berlin

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Ren (Alana Lake) is a British transplant living in Berlin. She’s single but doesn’t really want to be. Over the course of a year, we get to see her various attempts to get lucky and find connection. That ranges from dealing with someone who seems more interested in their Tinder match than her, as well as a one-night-stand who doesn’t seem able to eat any of the breakfast banquet she’s created. She also heads off to a bondage workshop and tries speed-dating, while a lost mobile phone on one date cause all manner of problems.

Ren is living in a world where finding someone for more than a night seems increasingly difficult, and sometimes even a whole night is too much to ask. [Read more…]

Erebus: Into The Unknown (DVD Review)

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Many of the best documentaries are based around incredible stories that few people know much about, and that’s certainly true here. The docudrama Erebus: Into The Unknown heads back to 1979, when an airplane taking 257 passengers on a sightseeing tour of Antarctica mysteriously crashed into the remote and frozen Mount Erebus.

In order to recover the victims, 11 New Zealand police officers – none of whom had much experience with snow or survival situations – were sent to Antarctica and onto Erebus, to deal with the horrific job of finding, cataloguing and recovering the now totally frozen bodies. [Read more…]

Eroddity(s) (DVD Review)

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Back in the dim and distant past there was an entire subgenre of straight-to-video movies (yes, video, I told you this was a long time ago) that had a plot but were filled with softcore sex. The main reason they existed seemed to be so that people who would be too embarrassed to buy an actual porn film could get something sexy without feeling too embarrassed to take it to the shop counter.

I couldn’t help thinking of that sort of movie when watching Eroddity(s), which presents four (well, three and a half) short stories that are linked by their horror feel and the fact the young men in them are unable to keep their clothes on for more than 30 seconds at a time. They’re also linked by the fact that no one in the movie is going to be winning an Oscar anytime soon, but as many of the actors are drawn from the world of twink porn, expecting to find a Meryl Streep amongst them is asking a bit much. [Read more…]