GAY INTEREST TRAILERS

B&B has certainly had a fair amount of success on the festival circuit, including winning Best LGBT Film at the London Independent Film Festival, and distributor Peccadillo Pictures picking up the UK and Ireland rights. While we’re used to plenty of gay-themed comedies and drama, this one takes us into horror/thriller territory.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Marc and Fred exercise their civil rights by checking in at a B&B run by devout Christian Jeff and his teenage son Paul. Jeff has already been successfully sued after he refused them a double bed. Our heroes have come back to demonstrate who’s in the minority now. All goes to plan until a thuggish Russian checks in. Is Alex a fellow gay campaigner or a neo-Nazi come to support homophobia overseas? The gag quickly runs sour as our couple begin to fear they’ve been set up for a beating. A terrifying death occurs but not the one we’ve been expecting.  When Marc and Fred uncover a cold-blooded murder they realize they’re next.’

The film was written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Joe Ahearne (Trance, The Replacement, Doctor Who), who comments, “I wanted to do a thriller in the Hitchcock vein but with gay characters making the wrong choices and getting terrified out of their wits. B&B goes beyond the gay relationship movie. It’s a thriller with a married couple at the centre, something I haven’t seen before.”

The couple is played by Tom Bateman (Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express, Amy Schumer’s Snatched) and Sean Teale (Bryan Singer’s Gifted, Ben Affleck’s Incorporated), and the B&B owner is played by Paul McGann (Withnail & I, Doctor Who).

B&B has just played in competition at the ECU Independent Film Festival in Paris and is also playing in competition at the MIFO LGBT Festival in Miami, OUT Film CT in Connecticut and a number of other festivals. To find out more about B&B, upcoming screenings, and its creators, please check the film’s official website www.BnBfilm.co.uk.

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

‘Scud’ is certainly one of the more interesting names for a director, but that’s the guy behind Utopians. A new trailer for the movie has now arrived, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘What would happen if Mishima Yukio meets Socrates? Hins, a dreamy boy who indulges in literature and thirsts for philosophy, is overwhelmed by a charismatic teacher, Antonio, who drags Hins and his religious girlfriend Joey into unchartered territories. The intriguing appearance of Swan, an elegant and intellectual lady, only adds to their entanglement of spirit and lust. What once seemed like a path toward a surreal poetic life in an unrestrained Utopia is now barred by a lifetime secret and a lie of the heart. Will Hins’s love for art and wisdom guide him through, or will he lose himself amid the chaos?’

The film will be out on DVD and VoD in the US on May 2nd. [Read more…]

There’s a point in everyone’s life when you’re supposed to properly grow up. For some it sneaks up on them slowly, and for other there’s a moment when the realise things can’t be like they have before. The latter is the case in Doug Archibald’s gay-themed I Love You Both.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Twins, Krystal and Donny, have been codependent their entire lives, still living together in their late twenties in a converted one bedroom house. When they both meet and start dating the same guy, they remain in denial about the fact that they’re both dating him until he picks only one of them, forcing them to confront that they can no longer live the same life. With nowhere to turn for advice except each other and their only two friends-Linda, a former middle-school Tae Bo teacher, and their mother-the twins are finally forced to look for answers from within.’

In the US, I Love You Both will be in cinemas, on iTunes, OnDemand and Amazon Video June 9th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

Good on the Chicago Cubs. Thanks to their support, Landline has become what’s believed to be the first LGBT-themed movie given licensing support from a team in a US national sports league. EW spoke with the film’s director, Matthew Aaron, who says, “In my research, there’s never been a film that stars LGBTQ actors made with the association of the MLB, the NBA, the NFL, or the NHL. [But] it’s not a film about being gay. It’s about two husbands who are going through their marriage together – typical, normal problems that everyone has.

“We never thought we were going to get [licensing for] the Cubs, and we never thought we’d get [to shoot at] Wrigley Field. We were just hoping that my character would be able to wear a Cubs jersey here and there for a couple thousand dollars… [they] really wanted to support indie filmmaking, which they’ve never done before, and they wanted to support this film. To top it all off, they wanted to support a film with LGBTQ leads in it.”

So what’s it all about? Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ted Gout is an public relations executive at Sanders PR. Just after securing the account for the upcoming season for the Chicago Cubs, Ted is passed over for a big promotion that would have supplied the finances for Ted and his pro-bono working, civil-rights lawyer, husband, Jack, to purchase their dream home. To make matters worse, he was passed over for his arch-nemesis, only five years his junior, but well more fine-tuned in the arts of social media. Ted gradually loses his sanity and finds himself slowly cutting himself off from society, thanks to a chance meeting with a low-tech hippie named Norm. As Ted’s husband worries for him and Ted’s friends go along for the ride, Ted must experience the pro’s and con’s of modern technology before finding a way to win his promotion back and get their dream home. Starring Tom Arnold and Betsy Brandt!’

Landline is available now on VoD in the US. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

Synopsis: ‘Inspired by his own life experiences, actor/director/writer Phillip Irwin Cooper tells a story of a son’s return home to Alabama, where he is faced with caring for his ill mother (Mariette Hartley) and reconciling with his supportive father (John Heard) while also coming out later in life and discovering romantic feelings for a childhood friend from a life he left behind in the deep South.

Featuring nuanced performances from two American acting icons – Mariette Hartley & John Heard as parents coming to terms with gracefully growing older and reconciling family expectations with the complications of real life. COUNTING FOR THUNDER is an original and heartfelt look at Southern family culture and the unique experience of finding your voice and coming out later in life.’

Wolfe Video will be releasing Counting For Thunder on DVD & VoD on May 4th in the US. Take the look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

A couple of weeks ago, a work in progress version of the documentary Pride screened at the BFI Flare LGBT Film Festival. It got a great reception, but in order to get it finished and seen by more people, it’s launched a crowdfunding campaign hoping to raise £25,000.

So what’s it all about? Here’s the synopsis from BFI Flare: ‘Pride began as a protest and has taken off around the world as a celebratory symbol of freedom, democracy and human rights. As the mainstream march in London draws larger crowds than ever before, off-shoots have also started to take root, signalling a major shift in queer culture and organising. What does it mean to be proud amidst discussions about racism, homo-nationalism and capitalism? Equally, what does it mean to critique the organisation of Pride-In-London when 49 innocent people were murdered in a gay bar in Orlando last summer?

‘PRIDE?’ is a provocative and intelligent documentary detailing the history of the movement and exuding compassion for the many, often conflicting, parts of the LGTBQ+ community. With wonderful, articulate commentary from the organisers of Black Pride, Queer Picnic, Pride in London and Lesbian Strength, among others. ‘PRIDE?’ is a genuine community effort that seeks to answer a simple but profound question about the future of this iconic movement.’

With the £25,000, the makers hope to complete the movie, including shooting more interviews, engaging graphic designers, getting archive footage, and completing legal reviews. Take a look at the trailer below, and if you like what you see, head over to Indiegogo to help out. [Read more…]

Synopsis: ‘BENJAMIN BENTLEY is the only guy at his Texas high school with the courage to come out of the closet, dooming himself, he believes, to a life of loneliness. Putting up with the bullies and his classmates’ whispered condemnations keeps him from pursuing his dream of being a singer, despite the encouragement of his best friend, Allison. Instead, Ben spends his summer vacation stalking the handsome athlete who just moved to town, Tim Wyman. Everything changes when Ben’s clumsiness causes an accident that brings him and Tim together, beginning a secret romance threatened at every turn by discovery and bigotry…

Years pass and Ben finds himself in Chicago attending college, still no closer to the true love he thought he’d found with Tim. On a trip home, he takes up with charming flight attendant Jace – possibly the world’s perfect boyfriend – and transfers to Texas University, where he’s reunited with Allison. But his happiness is upended when he runs into Tim, now out of the closet, and thrilled at the prospect of winning back his lost love…

‘SOMETHING LIKE SUMMER follows the course of true love over the span of a dozen years, from awkward adolescence through challenging adulthood, featuring seven classic and original musical numbers and the artwork of a talented young artist.’

Something Like Summer is currently screening at film festivals. Take a look at the trailer below. (H/T JoeMyGod) [Read more…]

Travis Mathews​ has gained a lot of fans for his In Their Room series, as well as both the short and feature-length versions of I Want Your Love, and his collaboration with James Franco, Interior Leather Bar. Now he’s returning with Discreet, which has released a couple of teasers.

Mathews has also been talking to Out about the film, saying, “It’s an unconventional film, and one with a lot of entry points for viewers. I want to invite people to consider watching the film through the prism of the politics that shaped it, and to hopefully leave the theater considering the scope of what’s happening in America. Hopefully, some folks will be inspired to make their own work that responds to this dangerous moment we’re sifting through. It’s not the time for people to be quiet or isolate.”

In the movie, ‘After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive. Armed with this knowledge, the drifter plots his revenge, all the while navigating the perilous land of masculine fragility in modern-day America.’

As with Mathews earlier film, it isn’t a film that’s afraid to use explicit and erotic imagery, and has also been praised for being an incredibly timely look at the current politics in America, and most particularly the rise of the alt-right.

The director adds, “As I was driving around Texas listening to conservative talk radio I tried to understand how that vitriol was intersecting with the black box profiles that I saw on the gay hookup apps. The movie is really about gathering all of that bubbling masculine anxiety during the US presidential campaign then channeling it through the traumatized mind of one character on a difficult journey.”

Discreet recently premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and is currently playing film festivals. Take a look at the two teasers below. [Read more…]