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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

McTucky Fried High S2 Ep 5 – The LGBTQ cartoon takes on religious evangelism

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mctucky-s2-ep5The school full of animated food is back with the fifth episode of Season 2. As the makers state, ‘McTucky Fried High stands out as one of the only LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) animated cartoons to date. Season 2 uses humor to tackle religion, racism, feminism, and STI’s while foregrounding and affirming LGBTQ characters and experiences. McTucky Fried High is setting the tone for specifically LGBTQ characters and story lines in media by being unapologetically queer, talking about relevant issues young people face and doing so with humor and fun! ‘

In the new episode, n the ongoing race to convert students into Cheesus followers, Sheri Cone (Kristen King) quickly surpass traditional methods of evangelism and reveals her dark past with haunting tale of Cheesy McCheesy Bear. Will the students of McTucky survive Sheri’s efforts? More importantly will Cheesus answer Sheri’s self serving prayers?

Take a look at McTucky Fried High’s Season 2, click here, and head here for Season 1. Enjoy! [Read more…]

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Women He’s Undressed (US Cinema/DVD Review)

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Gillian Armstrong is best known for directing the likes of Charlotte Gray, Oscar & Lucinda and Little Women, but here she returns to the documentary arena for a film about Orry-Kelly. It’s not a name you’ll necessarily recognise, although you will probably know some of his work – Ingrid Bergman’s costumes in Casablanca, Marilyn Monroe’s frocks in Some Like It Hot, the western clothes in Oklahoma! and all manner of dresses for Bette Davis.

He won three Oscars (making him Australia’s most prolific Academy Award winner until fellow costume designer Catherine Martin picked up her third and fourth gongs for The Great Gatsby (2013)), and to many in the filmmaking community he’s a bit of a legend. He was also an alcoholic and he was gay, something he didn’t hide but didn’t publicly flaunt either. Rumours suggest he may have had an intimate relationship with Cary Grant when they roomed together shortly after they both arrived in the US, although that’s never been confirmed. [Read more…]

Confessions (DVD Review)

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Mark Bessenger directed one of the best gay-themed films we reviewed last year, The Last Straight Man, and now he’s back with something a little different and more unusual. Rather than being a straightforward movie with a single plot, it takes the forms of 10 ‘confessions’, where different men talk about all sorts of different issues and situations. In many respects it’s a series of short films, which vary from the creepy and unsettling to the comedic and somewhat surreal.

There’s a young man who has to find the bravery to tell his parents that he’s a puppet, despite the fact they think that puppets are disgusting and abnormal. We have a man who appears to have kidnapped someone and is holding him in his basement, who slowly undresses as he reveals what is going on and why. In another, a hot young guys talk about what he’s really looking for as he lies in the arms of another man just after the throes of passion have ended. And in perhaps the most interesting of all the vignettes, a man slowly shaves off his beard, with each look he tries on a new persona that allows him to explore the fact that despite being with a woman, he has strong desires for men. [Read more…]

Summertime (La Belle Saison) (US Cinema Review)

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It’s the early 1970s and Delphine (Izïa Higelin) is a young French woman working on her father’s farm. Her parents are keen to marry her off, but Delphine is secretly seeing a woman, which doesn’t last when her partner announces she’s marrying a man. Escaping the rural life, Delphine heads to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists, including Carole (Cécile De France).

Although Carole has a boyfriend, she and Delphine start to fall for one another, but their happiness is ruined when Delphine’s father has a stroke and she feels the need to go back to the farm to run it. Eventually Carole follows her, staying there as Delphine’s ‘friend’, but as people begin to realise the truth it causes an increasing amounts of problems. [Read more…]

Supergirl – Season 1 (Blu-ray Review)

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DC Comics may be having a slightly bumpy ride building a cinematic comic book universe, but it’s certainly having plenty of success on the small screen. Arrow was joined by The Flash, which last season was joined by Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow, all taking place within the same universe (and there’s also Gotham slightly off to one side).

As you may have noticed, Supergirl is the first of those that has centred around a female hero. She’s a character that hasn’t had much luck on the screen before, partly because there’s previously been a tendency to treat her like the pretty damsel in distress, even though she’s got lots of superpowers. This new series tries to reverse that, and early on spends a bit of time commenting on the potential sexist problems, from that fact she’s a Super ‘girl’ rather than ‘woman’, to journalists asking her whether she’s going to start a family. [Read more…]

10 Cloverfield Lane (DVD Review)

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Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is having a bad time. She’s just left her fiancé and is heading away from their apartment when she gets run off the road by another vehicle. Things get even worse when she wakes up to find she’s now locked in a concrete room with no windows, chained to the wall. She discovers Howard (John Goodman) has brought her into this underground bunker.

He says the world has been attacked, pretty much everyone except him and another survivor in the bunker, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), is dead, and the air outside is toxic. He says that she would be dead too if he hadn’t saved her. Michelle is understandably suspicious that Howard’s actually a madman who’s kidnapped her and is lying. As the trio start to live together in the bunker, Michelle begins to wonder whether, even if the outside is toxic, it’s actually a safer place to be than underground with the temperamental and possibly unhinged Howard. [Read more…]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Trailer – Laverne Cox channels her best Frank ‘n’ Furter

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rocky-horror-slideRichard O’Brien might not be on board with a new TV movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (probably because he’s a bit of a curmudgeon who, unexpectedly, has issues with transgender people), but there are plenty of people out there keen to see what Laverne Cox will do in the role of Dr. Frank ‘n’ Furter.

High School Musical’s Kenny Ortega is behind the camera, with, Reeve Carney, Victoria Justice, Adam Lambert, Christina Milian and Ben Vereen set to star. As the trailer shows us, Tim Curry is also back, although this time he’s playing the role of the narrator.

It certainly looks like it might be fun, playing on the quirkiness as well as the audience participation that’s built up around the show. The film will debut in the US around Halloween, and will hopefully be seen in the UK around the same time. [Read more…]

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New Posters: Wonder Woman, Kong: Skull Island, LEGO Batman Movie, Fantastic Beasts & More

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kong-skull-island-poster-slideWith Comic-Con kicking off in Sand Diego, movie studios have been lining up to release new posters for their upcoming movies. That includes Wonder Woman, Kong: Skull Island, The LEGO Batman Movie, Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them, War Dogs and King Arthur.

All of those movies will be hoping to excite fanboys at the Californian event, and hopefully many of them will be releasing some trailer/footage for the rest of us too. First up though it’s the posters.

We’ve also posted the first official image from Kong: Skull Island, showing Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, alongside evidence that they’re going to be dealing with some ridiculously large apes. However, like earlier promos, Kong bones suggest this will deal with a species in decline, leaving King Kong as the last of his kind.

Take a look at the posters and pic below. [Read more…]

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This Live-Action Futurama Fan Film Trailer May Be The Coolest & Strangest Thing You See Today

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futurama-fan-o-ramaMatt Groening’s Futurama may never have been as big as his other major creation, The Simpsons, but it’s still extremely popular. So much so that someone has now made a fan trailer for a live-action Futurama film.

If you’ve seen the cartoon, you may not think it would be possible to transport it into the live-action realm and keep it looking exactly like Futurama, including Leela’s single-eye, a prehistoric looking Professor Farnsworth and an endearingly low-tech take on the robot, Bender.

The makers, Cinema Relics, say on the film’s website: ‘In the year 2014 one man, Dan Lanigan, in addition to other men, and some women, set out on a quest to become the first person in his family to create a live-action Futurama fan film. He is now regarded by most of his immediate kin as the foremost authority on the subject. This is his story.

‘Of course, he was far too lazy to do it alone. Dan sought out the greatest mind/ego of his age, Martin Moonwalker Meunier to help him invent new technologies, techniques, and recipes to bring the visual realism sorely lacking in the cartoon. He signed on the attractive Kody Frederick to star, help write and produce, as well as add the sex-appeal sorely lacking in the cartoon. He engaged his niece, Katie Lanigan, to act, help produce, and add the nepotism sorely lacking in the cartoon. He activated the legendary Garzatron, a synthetic being capable of carrying on 16 conversations at once with himself, to help design and build stuff. Adam Cook was raised from the dead in accordance with ancient Swedish prophecy to help produce. Dan secured the musical genius, Eric Diaz, a talented singer-songwriter, to make costumes. He brought aboard Andy Klimczak so he wouldn’t be the only fat guy on set. He also acted and helped write.’

And that statement should give you a taste or just how nutty but oddly inspired this is. Take a look at the live-action Futurama trailer below. It’s not known when the finished fan film, Fan-O-Rama, will be completed/released, but it’s certainly something to look out for.
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Jayson Bend: Queen & Country Trailer – The gay-themed James Bond spoof is on its way

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jayson-bend-slideWe reviewed Jayson Bend: Queen & Country a while ago, when it was chosen as the opening film of the Iris Prize festival in Cardiff. It’s taken a while, but now it’s on its way to DVD in the UK, with TLA set to release it in August.

Ahead of that you can take a look at the trailer. Watch it below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jayson Bend International Super Spy 009. He s sexy, he s highly capable….and he likes men! When the owner of the largest global hair salon chain threatens to launch a satellite that would turn him into the most powerful man in the world, it falls on Jayson s broad shoulders to stymie his plans. It could be his toughest assignment yet, and when he teams up with hot Swiss agent Alec Do Coque things start to get very sticky indeed. Look no further, World, your first gay super-spy has arrived and he ain’t taking any prisoners! Exclusive package also includes two exceptionally hot Mexican Shorts; BOYS ON THE ROOFTOP: two men share a playfully seductive evening where everything is on the table, and ACTOS IMPUROS; something strange is going on at a men’s bath house- is anyone safe?’ [Read more…]

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