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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

Allegiant (Blu-ray Review)

July 14, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort
Director: Robert Schwentke
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 11th 2016 (UK)

Poor old Divergent. Things started off well at the box office with the first movie, which helped Lionsgate decide they should expand their plans and turn the three books into four films. However, the second movie was slightly muted at the box office, and this one didn’t do well at all.

In Allegiant, Tris (Shailene Woodley) has opened the box, which suggests the city and its factions are part of an experiment, and that despite what they’ve been told, there is more to the world outside Chicago’s walls. Once out (despite many trying to stop them), Tris, Four (Theo James), her brother (Ansel Elgort) and Peter (Miles Teller), meet David (Jeff Daniels), the director of the experiment. He says they have been using Chicago and the factions to eventually find somebody genetically pure – the other people are defective – and that Tris may be that person. [Read more…]

First Look At Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise The Clown In Stephen King’s It Movie

July 13, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

it-first-look-pennywise-slideAfter several years in pre-production, director and cast changes and plenty of time when it looked like it would never happen, a new film based on Stephen King’s It has started shooting. Actually it’s two movies, with the first dealing with a group of children’s interaction with a sewer-dwelling monster that takes the form of an evil clown, and the second with what happens once they’ve grown up and return to take on the menace again.

One of the main things people have been interested is what the clown – Pennywise – would look like. We’ve known for a while that they were making him rather younger than Tim Curry’s take in the 1980s two-part TV movie, as the first person cast was Will Poulter. He’s since been replaced by Bill Skarkgard, and EW have released our first glimpse of him in full makeup for the role.

You can take a look at the image below. It’s certainly quite menacing. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Bill Skarsgard  FILMS: It  

Front Cover Trailer – A photographer falls for a famous actor in the gay-themed movie

July 13, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Front-Cover-slideFront Cover screens on July 14th at Outfest, before getting a theatrical release in early August in LA and New York. Ahead of that, you can take a look at the trailer for the Raymond Yeung directed movie.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘FRONT COVER is about handsome, openly gay New York City fashion stylist Ryan (Jake Choi), who rejects his traditional Asian upbringing. Ryan is given an assignment to style Ning (James Chen), a famous Chinese actor, for an important photo shoot. After a rocky start, an unlikely friendship develops between them, leading Ryan to examine his identity and consider an enticing new path for his life and career. A tender, funny look at clashing cultures and love, FRONT COVER is a delight for the urban fashionista in us all.’

Take a look at the trailer below. Strand Releasing will be bringing the movie out in the US. [Read more…]

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Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig Suggests Studio Won’t Let Him Say One Of The Main Characters Is LGBT

July 13, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

ghostbusters-kate-mckinnonA couple of people have noted that in the new take on Ghostbusters, there’s the possibility that Kate McKinnon’s character, Jillian, maybe be somewhere on the LGBT spectrum. However, as nearly always with big Hollywood movies, while there are suggestions, nothing’s actually said.

It appears there might be a reason for that to do with the studio, and that the filmmakers would have really liked to have been a little more open about. The Daily Beast asked director Paul Feig straight out whether Jillian is gay, to which he answered, “What do you think?”

When the intereviewer says that they think the answer is ‘yes’, Feig reportedly silently nodded and said, “I hate to be coy about it. But when you’re dealing with the studios and that kind of thing…

“You know, Kate is who she is and I love the relationship between Kate and Melissa’s characters,” he says. “I think it’s a very interesting, close relationship. If you know Kate at all she’s this kind of pansexual beast where it’s just like everybody who’s around her falls in love with her and she’s so loving to everybody she’s around. I wanted to let that come out in this character.”

That would suggest Jillian is supposed to be LGBT, but they’re not allowed to say it.

While Star Trek Beyond is making Sulu gay, generally Hollywood is still terribly afraid of having openly LGBT major characters in its big budget movies. The fear is that inclusion will affect the box office – or indeed get the movie banned – in countries where homosexuality is still frowned up or illegal, and may well deter anti-gay elements in the US. As hundreds of millions are being spent on these films, they simply won’t take the risk.

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ACTORS: Kate McKinnon  DIRECTORS: Paul Feig  FILMS: Ghostbusters 3  

A Korean Star Trek Beyond Ad May Have Given A First Look A Sulu’s Husband & Daughter

July 13, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

star-trek-beyond-sulu-husband-slideWhile it hasn’t been confirmed, eagle-eyed viewers have suggested a Korean ad for the new Star Trek movie, may have given us our first, very brief look at Sulu’s husband and daughter. Actor John Cho recently confirmed his character would have a same sex partner and child – even if it didn’t please original Sulu actor George Takei – but this may be the first time we’ve seen them.

It does make sense though, as the news of Sulu’s family arrangements was accompanied by the news they were back on Earth while the Starfleet crew member headed off into the stars. The brief look in the advert suggests Sulu’s hubby and daughter are in trouble back home, presumably caused by events the Enterprise is engaged in.

You can take a look at the advert below. The movie itself will be in cinemas on July 22nd. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: John Cho  FILMS: Star Trek Beyond  

Win The Explicit, Gay-Themed Like Cattle Towards Glow On DVD!

July 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

like-cattle-towards-glow-dvd-coverThe intriguing, gay-themed Like Cattle Towards Glow is out on DVD in the UK now courtesy of TLA Releasing. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies in this competition!

Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s Like Cattle Towards Glow is a 93 minute film consisting of five independent, thematically and emotionally interconnected scenes. The film is a complex, intimate, strangely serene, wide-ranging, and always challenging exploration of sexual desire as a hiding place. In these unique, stylistically and temperamentally diverse scenes, each one featuring its own set of characters and storyline, sex makes a promise of something so intense and untenable to the characters that they feel they must enter it in secret — through an act of violence, or under the guise of an unrelated transaction, or by rationalizing its dangers away with the help of politics, or through utilizing it remotely as material for a purely aesthetic project. Like these characters, and like sex itself, Like Cattle Towards Glow is as deep, knowing, and unknowable as it is raucous, original, and explicit on the surface.

You can click here to watch the trailer.

To be in with a chance of winning Like Cattle Towards Glow on DVD that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on July 25th, 2016, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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McTucky Fried High S2 Eps 3&4 – The LGBTQ cartoon takes on slut-shaming and STIs

July 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

mctucky-fried-high-season-2-ep-5As with the first season of McTucky Fried High, this second run hasn’t been afraid of taking on the issues facing LGBTQ head-on, even if it is doing it through a show about a school full of animated food. Episode 3 and 4 of Season 2 certainly continue that fearlessness, with this season particularly interested in religious freedom advocates and their hypocrisies.

In Episode 3, ‘When the followers of Cheesus go on a slut-shaming campaign, Blu and Shirley join forces to start a feminist club. #Feminism is so on leek these days!’. Then, in Episode 4, ‘When the followers of Cheesus shut down sex ed, the students take matters into their own hands to learn about the dangers of STDs and STIs like MOLD and SPORES!’

Take a look at McTucky Fried High’s Season 2, Episodes 3 & 4 below, and if you need to catch up on Episodes 1 & 2,click here and here, and head here for Season 1. Enjoy! [Read more…]

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FILMS: McTucky Fried High  

Italian TV Network Says Sorry For Cutting How To Get Away With Murder Gay Sex Scene

July 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

how-to-get-away-with-murderThere was a bit of an outcry in Italy over the last three days when one of the country’s biggest free TV networks, Rai TV, aired the pilot episode of How To Get Away With Murder. The problem, which many eagle-eyed viewers noticed, was that a gay sex scene had been snipped out, while all the heterosexual shenanigans was left intact.

The scene, featuring Connor (Jack Falahee) and Oliver (Conrad Riamora), had already been seen by Italian fans when it aired on the pay network, Sky Italia’s Fox, but it was chopped for the Rai TV screening.

The criticism quickly went viral, with comment coming from the makers of the series, including Pete Nowalk who tweeted that he was “shocked and disappointed.” Creator Shonda Rhimes joined in, saying, “Censorship of any love is inexcusable.” While actor Jack Falahee wondered: “audiences in Italia aren’t ready for real life?”

With the protest growing, Rai TV stepped up to apologise and offer a (rather weak) excuse. As Variety reports, ‘Rai 2 director Ilaria Dallatana responded in a statement claiming “there was no censorship, simply an excess of modesty” on the part of an overzealous female editor who had made the edits without her approval. Dallatana ordered the episode to be rebroadcast uncensored on Sunday evening in the same primetime slot.’

One of the reasons it’s a slightly weak excuse is that Rai has previously been subject to numerous accusations of censoring gay content, and so can’t claim to be unaware of the issue. It was previously criticised for cutting the gay sex scene from Brokeback Mountain, as well as for apparently apparently only allowing straight couple to get onstage and kiss during a televised concert last year.

Italy lags behind the rest of western Europe on LGBT rights, only begrudging giving gay couple  some right in the last few months, but stopping far short of backing gay marriage or officially sanctioning gay adoptions. While it’s believed the population is open to giving more rights to LGBT people, the strength of the Catholic Church in the country has made even getting the limited rights passed recently difficult.

 

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Javier Bardem Will Take On Frankenstein In Universal’s Movie Monster Universe

July 11, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

javier-bardemUniversal’s hopes of building an Avengers style universe around classic monsters is moving apace, with a reboot of The Mummy currently shooting with Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp signed up to be the Invisible Man and Russell Crowe on board to be Dr. Jeykll/Mr. Hyde. Now the films have found their Frankenstein, as Variety report Javier Bardem is in talks for the role.

The monster universe will be set in the modern day, with Universal planning a new take on the classic Bride Of Frankenstein. However, it appears likely that Bardem will appear as the character in another movie first, but it’s not known which one. He may have been cast now so he can cameo in The Mummy, but it’s believed Invisible Man will also shoot this year.

The studio is certainly bringing a lot of star power to its planned franchise, going against the grain for superhero movies, which have tended to cast cheaper up-and-comers, or well-known names going cheap (and remember, that’s exactly what Robert Downey Jr. was before Iron Man). It’s presumably due to the fact movie monster don’t have the same sort of in-built fanbase and interest that superheroes tend to have, and so they feel adding some big names will help. It’s yet to be seen whether it will work out.

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ACTORS: Javier Bardem  FILMS: Frankenstein  

Please Like Me Finally Arrives In The UK, & Josh Thomas Announces Season 4 Is Coming Soon

July 9, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

please-like-me-s3-slide2Josh Thomas’ gay-themed Aussie show Please Like Me has gained huge amounts of praise around the world, winning numerous awards and gathering a cult following in many countries (including the likes of Lena Dunham). However, as we noted in our review of Seasons 1 and 2, it’s been very difficult to watch it in the UK. Despite the plaudits, no British TV channel had picked it up.

Thankfully though, that’s now changing, as Amazon has announced that the first three seasons of the comedy drama series are now available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, following a deal they’ve done with Avalon Distribution. It means that UK audiences will now be able to catch up on the adventures of Thomas’ alter ego, Josh, who gets dumped by his girlfriend and then comes out as gay. The show follows his rather awkward romantic entanglements (including with the handsome but unusual Arnold), as well his his issues with his mother’s mental illness and father’s new wife and child. That’s not to mention his relationship with straight housemate and friend, Tom.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth catching up with the show, and now those in the UK with a Prime Video subscription can do just that. It’s just as well too, as Josh Thomas has announced that production has begun on Season 4, revealing the news with the cake based Instagram pic you can see below. Hopefully that will also come to Prime Video, and it’s already been revealed it’ll be available in the US from November 10th via Pivot. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Josh Thomas  FILMS: Please Like Me  
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