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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

GAY INTEREST TRAILERS

Take a look at promos for movies that have got some of them gays in them!

Truth Trailer – Sean Paul Lockhart stars in a new gay-themed psychological thriller

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Sean Paul Lockhart is making a successful transition from gay porn to gay films (with some dancing in his underwear for Andrew Christian thrown in), thanks to movies such as Judas Kissed and Triple Crossed. Now we’ve got the trailer for another new movie starring Lockhart, Truth, which also features Blanche Baker (Sixteen Candles, Raw Deal) and Rob Moretti (Crutch, An Affirmative Act, Snapshot), who also directs.

After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb (Lockhart) meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy (Moretti) and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb’s quest for the truth be revealed.

The movie is currently screening at festivals, following its premiere at Philadelphia QFest. A US DVD release is planned for next February. [Read more…]

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Heterosexual Jill Trailer – Dating another woman to prove you’re straight

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Filmmaker/Actress Michelle Ehlen follows up her movie Butch Jamie with the movie Heterosexual Jill. Ehlen has recently been talking about the film with Huffington Post, and alongside that comes the trailer.

In the movie, ‘A woman, Jill, asks her female ex-lover, Jamie, if they can date each other again just so that Jill can prove to herself that she is no longer attracted to Jamie and therefore no longer a lesbian. Jamie agrees.’

The director says of her film, “I like to think there’s an underlying theme in my films of living a more authentic life. Once you get over the idea of who you think you are or should be, you can begin to move toward a more genuine and three-dimensional experience.”

Heterosexual Jill is now screening at film festivals, following its premiere at the Frameline Film Festival. Ehlen plans to follow the movie with a third film, S&M Sally. It’s well worth reading the interview with Ehlen over at Huffpo. [Read more…]

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Matthew McConaughey Gets A New Poster & Clips From Dallas Buyer’s Club

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There’s already Oscar buzz surrounding Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyer’s Club, and not just because of his dramatic weight loss to play AIDS patient Ron Woodroof. Now a new poster for the movie has been released, along with a couple of new clips, including one that focuses on Jared Leto’s gay, cross-dressing character.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Matthew McConaughey stars in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, the entrepreneurial Woodroof joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts – who he once would have shunned – and established a hugely successful “buyers’ club.” Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience.’

The film opens in select US theatres on Friday, November 1st, with a February UK release planned.

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New Clip Of Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan In Kill Your Darlings Emerges

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After months of waiting, it’s not too long before we’ll all get to see Daniel Radcliffe as gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, with the US release set for October 16th and the UK release recently shifted to December 6th.

Now a new clip from the film has emerged (via Out), showing off the chemistry between Radcliffe and Dan DeHaan, who plays Lucien Carr’s the object of Radcliffe’s affection in the movie. Take a look above.

Based on a true story, Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers. You can watch the trailer here. [Read more…]

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Sal Trailer – First Look At James Franco’s biopic of gay actor Sal Mineo

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James Franco is back doing gay things. Actually, he did this gay thing quite a while ago, but Sal has taken a couple of years to get from principal photography to the point of release. However now the movie is coming, and the first trailer has arrived.

Franco’s film is a biopic of actor Sal Mineo, famed for his roles in the likes of Rebel Without A Cause, Giant and The Longest Day. While he did have some relationships with women, in the late 60s he became one of the first Hollywood actors to ever acknowledge he was gay. Tragically in 1976, while he was living in San Francisco playing a bisexual burglar in the stage comedy, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, he was murdered in what is believed to be a robbery gone wrong (reports Mineo was trying to solicit his killer for sex are unfounded).

The film concentrates on his final day, when he wasn’t quite a famous as he once was, but has become comfortable with his sexuality and his abilities as an actor. Val Lauren plays Mineo, with Franco taking a supporting role as Milton Kaselas, the director of the play Sal was starring in before he died.

Sal will be available on iTunes and VOD in the US starting October 22nd, with a limited theatrical release from November 1st, beginning in Los Angeles.

You can also take a look at a new poster below. [Read more…]

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The Falls: Testament Of Love Trailer – First look at the gay mormon sequel

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Back in April we reported that director Jon Garcia was seeking funding for a follow-up to his great gay-themed flick, The Falls. Well, he got the cash and the movie will premiere on October 5th at the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, with a US DVD release set for November.

The first film followed young Mormon missionaries RJ and Chris, who fall for one another despite the fact they know they risk excommunication if their relationship is discovered.

The sequel, ‘picks up five years after the doomed romance between Mormon missionaries RJ and Chris. Though their lives have taken radically different paths, the death of a mutual friend unexpectedly reunites the two men at a time when both are attempting to establish their adult lives. As old feelings of love and regret are rekindled, RJ and Chris must once again confront their seemingly impossible love. Will their reunion prove that they’re fated to be together, or is it merely a temporary fantasy?’

The trailer makes it seem like it’ll be well worth a look, with one of the men having embraced his sexuality, while the other has put the church first and done his best to be straight, complete with wife and kid.

You can take a look at the poster below (via Out) [Read more…]

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The Perfect Wedding Trailer – Things get gay and complicated surrounding some family nuptials

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What would the movies do without weddings? With its inbuilt drama and emotion, as well as the fact the ceremony sets a timescale to get all the problems sorted out, it’s a very handy structure for screenwriters to hang a story around. And why should all things LGBT get left out?

While this movie isn’t about a same sex marriage, as the trailer for The Perfect Wedding shows, there’s plenty of gay relationship drama going on.

Here’s the synopsis: The Perfect Wedding is the story of Paul Fowler (Eric Aragon) and Gavin Greene (Jason T. Gaffney), two young gay men who meet and fall in love over the Christmas holidays.

Charismatic, handsome Paul is a recovering alcoholic, eighteen months sober, but still picking up the pieces of the destruction he’d wrought while drinking. He lives at home with his parents, Richard (James Rebhorn) and Meryl (Kristine Sutherland), and with their support and the help of his AA sponsor Zach (Sal Rendino), Paul is learning how to live one day at a time.

But Christmas is approaching, and Paul’s adopted sister Alana (Apolonia Davalos) is coming home for the holidays. This won’t be just a regular family celebration — she’s recently engaged and the weekend will be spent planning her June wedding. She’s bringing her best friends Roy (Roger K. Stewart) and Vicki (Annie Kerins) home with her, to help with the task.

Problem is, Roy is Paul’s ex-boyfriend, and their relationship was a casualty to Paul’s drinking. In fact, the two young men haven’t seen each other since their very messy breakup. Nervous about seeing his ex again, Roy talks his good friend Gavin into joining him for the weekend, and pretending to be his new boyfriend.

When Paul and Gavin meet, sparks of attraction fly — but Gavin thinks Roy’s still hung up on Paul. And of course, the last thing Paul wants to do is hurt his ex all over again.

Meanwhile, like all families, the Fowlers must deal with bad news as well as good, and we discover that patriarch Richard has been recently diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s. He is essentially symptom-free, but Meryl is terrified of what the future holds and throws herself into planning a lavish wedding for their daughter, Alana. Even though Meryl knows it’s foolish, she wants to create a wedding so big and so beautiful that no one — not even Richard — will ever forget it.

When Paul realizes that his sister’s wedding plans are getting steamrolled by their mom, he gets involved and convinces Alana’s fiancé Kirk (Brendan Griffin) to re-propose to her, asking her to marry him that very day, in a small ceremony at sunset near the water, with only close friends and family attending, just as Alana has always imagined. And with Paul’s help, Richard also confronts Meryl and convinces her to join him in the present instead of living burdened with the uncertainties of the future.

The proposal, the intimate wedding, and Paul and Gavin’s ultimate connection are touching scenes in a warm and funny story about a very real, modern American family. [Read more…]

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Undressing Israel Trailer – Michael Lucas (Yes, That One) Looks at gay life in Israel

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Michael Lucas is well known for producing porn, and more recently he’s surprised some with his very strident support of Israel, as well as his vociferous attack on anyone who suggest the Middle-Eastern nation has ever done anything wrong.

He’s now made Undressing Israel, which sets out to overturn ideas about the Jewish state – such as that being LGBT is illegal there, or that everything gay has to be hidden in the shadows due to religious pressure – neither of which is true. Instead it appear to be some sort of gay utopia.

Well, at least that’s according to this trailer, which if representative of the movie, does seem to be a little one-sided. You can understand wanting to overturn stereotypes, but this seems a little extreme – but hey, I’ve never been to Israel, so perhaps it is an awesome place to be gay and there are no problems whatsoever! [Read more…]

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I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Music video from the gay-themed film Five Dances

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Five Dances is a beautiful looking movie. We first posted the trailer for it back in December 2012. However it’s only now that it’s heading for release, with screenings in the US starting October 4th, while a UK DVD release is set for October 28th.

Now a music video for a song from the film has arrived, showing off footage from the gay-themed dance film, as well as Scott Matthews’ tune, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, from his album, Unlearned. Take a look above.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘The classic tale of finding success and romance in the big city is given a contemporary, and unconventional, spin in Alan Brown’s new film, FIVE DANCES. Collaborating with internationally renowned choreographer Jonah Bokaer, writer-director Brown has taken five gifted New York dancers, and fashioned a story about Chip (Ryan Steele in his first film role), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old recently arrived from Kansas who joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer’s life, where discipline and endless hard work, camaraderie and competitiveness, the fear of not being good enough, and the joy of getting it just right, inform every minute of every day.

‘Shooting in and around a Soho dance studio, Brown and his longtime cinematographer Derek McKane capture the exhilaration and emotional turmoil of a small dance company, and all of Chip’s poignant firsts—the forging of friendships, being chosen for the important solo, his first ever love affair—with the intimacy and immediacy of a documentary. The result, FIVE DANCES, is Brown’s most dynamic film.’ [Read more…]

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New Blue Is The Warmest Color Trailer – Take a look at the lesbian-themed Palm d’Or winner

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Blue Is The Warmest Color is definitely an intriguing film. It won the Palm d’Or, but garnered controversy over its graphic lesbian sex scenes. Even the film’s two main actresses have sometimes seemed to be in two minds about the movie – proud of its success but finding it incredibly difficult to ignore how tough it was to make.

An October US release is set, with the film coming to the UK in November.

Ahead of that, a new trailer has arrived – and as is the way with both foreign film and gay themed movies, there’s no dialogue (because apparently nobody would watch anything that wasn’t in English) and it’s unclear whether the characters are straight or not (because nobody would watch a movie about two women in love if it wasn’t purely about titillating straight men). If you can’t tell, we’re not desperately impressed with this promo, even if the images are pretty.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘At 15, Adele doesn’t question it: a girl goes out with boys. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself…’ Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopolis star in the movie, and it was a lengthy sex scene between the two that got people talking at Cannes [Read more…]

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