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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

Girls On Film: The First Date (DVD Review)

July 22, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Director: Various
Running Time: 91 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

After the success of Peccadillo’s Boys On Film series – which has so far given us 10 selections of great short films focussed on gay men – comes the lesbian-themed Girls On Film: The First Date. The disc features nine shorts, and as with the Boys On Film releases it’s a great selection that covers a broad range of topics and ideas, taking in everything from comedy to documentary.

You can take a look at what I thought of each of the shorts below: [Read more…]

Vampire Academy (DVD Review)

July 21, 2014 By Tim Isaac 5 Comments

Starring: Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Dominic Sherwood, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Mark Waters
Running Time: 104 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

There have been a vast array of films in the last few years that have bid to be the new Twilight or Harry Potter. While Vampire Academy may not have ever been likely to have hit those heights, there were hopes it could carve out its own niche. Instead it pretty much sank without trace, partly because it’s so busy trying to be other popular franchises – or perhaps parodying them – that it never becomes anything on its own.

The film’s mythology follows three races of being – the Moroi, who are a mortal, largely benevolent magical race but who have to live on blood; the Strigoi, who are the evil, immortal vampires of myths; and the half-bloodsucker Dhampir, a warrior race who protect the Moroi. [Read more…]

Yves Saint Laurent (DVD Review)

July 21, 2014 By Matt Peake 1 Comment

Starring: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Nikolai Kinski
Director: Jalil Lespert
Running Time: 106 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

Yves Saint Laurent tells the story of one of fashion’s greatest legends. Directed by Jalil Lespert (Tell No One) and starring Pierre Niney (La Comédie Francaise) in the title role, this visually sumptuous film begins in Paris, 1957. The film charts YSL’s career from his early years at Dior in the late 1950s through to his iconic Ballet Russes collection of 1976. The world of late 1950s is perfectly captured with elegant Dior designs, stylish models and a jazz score that matches the chic Parisian apartments the fashionistas inhabit. [Read more…]

Harold And Maude (Blu-ray Review)

July 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack
Director: Hal Ashby
Running Time: 91 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

Harold and Maude can be a tough sell. Despite saying to people that it’s a small masterpiece that’s amongst the best American movies ever made, the moment you mention that it’s a full-on love story between a teenager and a 79-year-old woman you can see the horror start to mount in people’s eyes, especially when you confirm we’re not talking purely about platonic love.

Now it’s arrived on Blu-ray, and I can only hope the release convinces a few more people to indulge in its quirky and yet often profound delights. [Read more…]

Gimme Shelter (DVD Review)

July 14, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson, Brendan Fraser, James Earl Jones
Director: Ronald Kauss
Running Time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

Vanessa Hudgens continues her quest to prove she’s decidedly not a squeaky clean Disney Channel star anymore. In Gimme Shelter she is Apple, a teenager dealing with a childhood where she’s been in and out of often abusive foster case and has a junkie mother (Rosario Dawson) who only cares about the welfare check she brings in.

Apple runs away to find the father she never knew (Brendan Fraser), but when that doesn’t go well and she discovers that she’s pregnant, she starts to feel life on the streets may be her only option – until she finds potential salvation when a priest (James Earl Jones) tells her about a home for teen moms. [Read more…]

Eroddity(s) (DVD Review)

July 14, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Cory Tyndall, Addison Graham, Edward Gutierrez
Director: Steven Vasquez
Running Time: 67 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)

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…]

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