Despite having a title that sounds a little too much like a 1990s straight ‘erotic thriller’, the gay-themed short film collection Furious Desires looks like it might be pretty good. It presents a series of films which, as the title suggests, looks at different forms of desire.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Desire is mysterious. Desire is overwhelming. Desire is tragic. Desire is FURIOUS. The many permutations of that strange thing called desire are on full display in this stunning collection of short films: Daytime Doorman tracks the burgeoning desire between Marcelo and his sexy doorman Marcio. Xavier charts the beginnings of desire, when Nicholas begins to notice his son, Xavier, only pays attention to certain types of boys. The Other Side is about the frustrations of unfulfilled desire when the object of your lust is beyond your reach- literally. The Tigers Fight explores what happens when one man, unbound by the ancient traditions, decides to subvert what s expected of him to declare his desire for his best friend, and finally, in Loris Is Fine we learn about the lengths two young lovers will go to prove that their love is beyond desire.’
The collection will be out on DVD in the UK on September 25th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]
If it’s a French LGBT-themed film it’s problably going to be moody, a bit (pseudo-)intellectual and have plenty of sex in it. That may be an over-generalisation, but it looks like it’s true of Even Lovers Get The Blue.
Synopsis: Albert is an eccentric, ageing painter who doubles as an unconventional, Jung-inspired psychotherapist. When his friend asks him to counsel her grandson Ben, whose boyfriend problems are fuelling an already deep depression, their subsequent therapy sessions reveal as much about Albert as they do about Ben.
There’s no one quite like Grace Jones, a singer, model and performance artist who has always defied expectations, and often seemed like a deliberate enigma. From the 1980s many haven’t known what to make of her, but with her bold look and sexuality, she became beloved by many gay men – something she has been more than happy to reciprocate.
There was lots of praise and plenty of column inches written follow Call Me By Your Name’s debut at Sundance, ensuring there’s plenty of anticipations for its cinema release. Now, just a few days after the first official poster was released, comes the trailer for the movie. Even from these brief scenes, you can start to feel why Sundance audiences liked it so much.
This year was a good one for LGBT movies at Sundance, with the likes of Call Me By Your Name, God’s Own Country and Beach Rats making waves. A new trailer for the last of those films has now arrived, which you can take a look at below.
Films about real-life serial killers aren’t exactly rare, but movies about them when they were young, before they became multiple murderers are far less common. That’s the subject of My Friend Dahmer, starring form Disney Channel actor Ross Lynch as a teen version of Jeffrey Dahmer.
In the annals of Disney history, Howard Ashman is a legend. The out gay lyricist was perhaps the key crative force behind the Disney renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a couple of decades in the wilderness, Disney animation suddenly recaptured its magic with the likes of The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast and Aladdin, all of which Ashman worked on.
We haven’t seen Bette Midler in a movie since Parental Guidance in 2012. However, she’s returning with Freak Show, which will be the Closing Night movie at this year’s Outfest LA LGBT Film Festival this Sunday. The movie has recently been picked up for release by IFC Films in the US, who have released the first clip.
The gay-male short film collection, Boys On Film, has become the most successful short film DVD series in the world, which is now up to 16 instalments. A couple of years ago it got a lesbian companion release, Girls On Film, which presented a great selection of female-driven shorts. It’s taken a little while, but now the second Girls On Film release, Before Dawn, is on its way.