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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

Gambit (Blu-ray)

March 7, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay
Director: Michael Hoffman
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: March 4th 2013

Harry Dean (Colin Firth) is a seemingly dithering art expert working for the cold, abusive Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman). He has a plan to get back at his boss, which involves a lost Monet masterpiece. He gets the Major (Tom Courtney) to paint a duplicate, and schemes to get Lionel to believe that it’s real, but was taken to the US after World War II and since then has been in the possession of a Texan family. [Read more…]

The Sapphires (DVD)

March 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell
Director: Wayne Blair
Running Time: 99 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: March 4th 2013

The Sapphires was a major hit in Australia and recently swept the Australian Film Institute’s AACTA Awards, picking up 11 gongs. However it’s struggled to find a huge audience outside its home country, despite the presence of Chris O’Dowd. It’s a bit of a shame, as while it’s not amazing, it’s a sweet, entertaining movie that tells an interesting true story.

From their youth, Gail, Julie and Cynthia have sung together, although due to the fact they’re aborigines, they’ve had difficulty getting anyone outside their own community to take any notice. In 1968 they meet the slightly schlubby Dave (O’Dowd), a man who’s down on his luck but who knows music. The girls have found an advert asking for acts to audition to play for US troops in Vietnam. They think that perhaps with Dave as their manager, they might have a chance of being taken seriously as a singing group. [Read more…]

People Like Us (DVD)

March 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michael Hall D’Addario, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Running Time: 109 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: March 4th 2013

Alex Kurtzman is best known for writing (alongside Roberto Orci) Mission: Impossible III, the Transformers movies, Star Trek and Cowboys & Aliens. You might expect then that for his first directorial outing he’d go for something bombastic and action-packed, but instead he’s dusted off an old screenplay he wrote with Orci and Jody Lambert, which is far more character drama than action spectacular. [Read more…]

Love Bite (DVD)

March 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ed Speleers, Jessica Szohr, Timothy Spall, Luke Pasqualino, Robin Morrissey
Director: Andy De Emmony
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 4th 2013

Love Bite was probably hoping for big things by mixing Inbetweeners style teen comedy with a dash of Brit horror, but the results are underwhelming and sometimes rather nasty – and not because of the gore (of which there isn’t that much, to be honest).

Jamie (Ed Speleers) is a young guy living in the dead-end town of Rainmouth, a place where nothing happens and the only thing to do is hang around with his sex obsessed mates. Their only desire in life seems to be to get laid, while Jamie has bigger ideas and remains a virgin (no matter what he’s told his friends). [Read more…]

Argo (Blu-ray)

March 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Victor Garber
Director: Ben Affleck
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 4th 2013

Although it’s not too unusual for the winner of the Best Picture Oscar not to also pick up the Best Director gong, it’s very rare for the winner of the biggest prize not to even get a nomination for its helmer. However that’s what happened with Argo, marking the first time it’s occurred since Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. (Incidentally it’s also now tied with Gigi as the Best Picture winner with the shortest title).

It was a real oversight on the part of the Academy, because it’s not like Ben Affleck’s direction is irrelevant to the movie’s success. Indeed it’s him probably more than anyone else who makes the film work. [Read more…]

Body Of Proof – Season 2 (DVD)

March 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop, Jeri Ryan, Geoffrey Arend, Windell Middlebrooks
Director: Various
Running Time: 670 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 4th 2013

When Body Of Proof started it had a bit of a problem. It wanted to be a little edgy, with a no-nonsense lead character who had the innate ability to annoy just about everyone she met, but her aggravating personality meant she got results. When the series was being developed it probably sounded interesting and a way to make it stand out, but the result was a character who often came across as pretty unlikeable and whiny. [Read more…]

Stitches (DVD)

March 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Shane Murray Corcoran
Director: Conor McMahon
Running Time: 86 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 4th 2013

Stitches is a very silly film, which may not come as a surprise seeing as it’s manic comedian Ross Noble’s movie debut, but thankfully it’s also a surprisingly entertaining. Noble plays Stitches, a pretty rubbish children’s party clown who we first meet shagging a woman while in full makeup.

He heads off to young Tom’s party, where his lacklustre act is met with scorn by the bratty kids, who decide to play a trick on him. Tying his shoelaces together results in a terrible accident and the clown’s death. [Read more…]

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