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

Nasty Baby & Those People Amongst Outfest LGBT Film Festival Winners

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those-people-slideOne of the world’s most prestigious LGBT film festivals, LA’s Outfest, has drawn to a close and this year’s winners have been announced, with the Kristen Wiig starrer Nasty Baby following up its Teddy Award for best LGBT-themed film at the Berlin Film Festival with the US Dramatic Feature Film prize at Outfest. International Dramatic Feature meanwhile went to Marcal Fores’ Everlasting Love.

On the Audience Award side of the fest, Fourth Man Out, Andrew Nackman’s movie about a blue collar mechanic coming out of the the closet, picked up the Dramatic Feature Prize. First US Dramatic Feature went to Those People, which is about a young man dealing with unrequited gay love in New York (it’s a movie we really liked when we reviewed it a few weeks ago).

You can take a look at the full list of winners below. [Read more…]

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Win Xavier Dolan’s Mommy On DVD!

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mommy-dvd-coverMommy won the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and it’s out on DVD and VoD in the UK now via Metrodome Distribution. To celebrate we’ve got three DVD copies to give away.

A passionate widowed single mom (Anne Dorval) finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son (Antoine Olivier Pilon). As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla (Suzanne Clément), the peculiar new neighbour across the street, offers her help. Together, they strive for a new sense of balance.

Queer filmmaker Xavier Dolan (Tom At The Farm, I Killed My Mother) directs.

To be in with a chance of winning one of the three copies of Mommy 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 August 3rd, 2015, so get answering and good luck [Read more…]

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Before We Go Trailer – Romance sparks between Chris Evans & Alice Eve

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Before-We-Go-slideIt is an odd thing but when actors are playing superheroes they often don’t have vast amounts of success outside that franchise. It’s true of Chris Evans, who’s massively popular as Captain America, but his other films haven’t made much of an impact on the box office (his recent Playing It Cool didn’t even get a UK cinema release).

It’s a shame as he certainly has charm on screen.

Before We Go may not be likely to make mountains of cash, but it does look like it may be a rather charming romance with Evans starring alongside Alice Eve. And it will also act as a showcase for Evans directorial skills, as it’s his debut behind the camera.

Chris plays a man who helps out after Eve’s purse is stolen, which ‘sparks a life-changing, nighttime sojourn through New York City.’

Before We Go will be on VOD in the US from July 21st and in cinemas September 4th. No UK date is currently set. [Read more…]

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Stuff (Outfest Review)

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Deb and Trish are a married couple with two young daughters. They’ve been together for a long time, but there are major cracks in their relationship. Trish has never gotten over the death of her father five years before, and seems utterly unwilling to move beyond the stasis she’s living in, even if it involves her missing out on some of the most important moments in her family’s life.

Deb meanwhile doesn’t know what to do about her relationship, but is perhaps a little too cautious and worried, overthinking everything about her life. Then she meets Jamie, who’s new to town and seems to offer something different, bringing back a sense of excitement and possibility. However, Jamie has problems of her own, not least a domineering, violent ex. [Read more…]

Beautiful Something (Outfest Review)

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One night, four men. Set in Philadelphia, Beautiful Something follows the lives of a quartet of gay guys as they search for what they truly desire and question what they have in their lives. Brian is a writer with one success under his belt, but who has a block about penning his follow-up and as a result is confronting whether his visions of himself as an artist are somewhat delusional and if he’ll have to give up the life he’s built and head back home. He seeks distraction in hook ups and then decides to lay out his feelings to his straight friend.

Drew meanwhile is a renowned sculptor working on a new piece, for which his young boyfriend Jim acts as his muse. However, this seemingly innocuous set-up unleashes Jim’s inner insecurities, causing him to wonder whether their relationship is real or just about Drew’s art. Finally there’s the older Bob, a wealthy talent agent who’s cruising the streets of the City Of Brotherly Love, although even he seems unsure what he’s searching for. He’s just hoping to stumble on a ‘beautiful something’. [Read more…]

Tab Hunter Confidential (Outfest Review)

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Some younger people may have never heard of Tab Hunter, but if you say the name to any straight woman or gay man who was young in the 1950s, you can often see their eyes glaze as they remember the teen heartthrob who was the biggest dreamboat crush of an entire generation. However, while he was setting millions of teenage hearts aflutter in the likes of Damn Yankees and Battle Cry, he was also hiding the fact that he was gay (with the help of the studio system).

Hunter only officially came out when he wrote his autobiography in 2006, on which this documentary is based. The film includes extensive interviews with Hunter, who still seems somewhat reticent to talk about his sexuality – an entire lifetime of not talking publicly about that side of his life hasn’t disappeared now he’s ‘outed’ himself – but even so he does open up about his career, his relationships with the likes of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, and the studio-mandated dates he went on with a string of young starlets. [Read more…]

Boulevard (Cinema Review)

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After Robin Williams’ untimely death, it looked for a while like we might not see his final movie beyond festival and other limited screenings. Despite starring the much-loved actor, distributors seemed to be shying away from it. However now the movie has arrived and you can see why in the immediate aftermath of Williams’ demise distributors might have had pause, as in it Robin plays a quiet and melancholic character in a movie that has an air of sadness running right through it.

However, Williams is extremely good in the movie as Nolan, a middle-aged, married man living a dull, grey life with little joy and little to keep him going into his fast encroaching later life. Then he literally bumps into Leo (Roberto Aguire), a young rent boy working on the streets. While Nolan doesn’t want sex, something about the man lights something inside him and he starts to seek out Leo’s company and attempts to help him. [Read more…]

Reckless (US DVD Review)

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We’re used to Hollywood doing pointless remakes of European movies, but we’re less used to one European country remaking a film from another. It’s not actually that uncommon though – for example Spain has had some success with new versions of British films – and now it’s time for Holland to take on the 2009 British movie, The Disappearance Of Alice Creed.

The set-up is pretty much the same. In the opening scene a woman, Laura, is kidnapped, taken to an apartment, stripped naked and photographs are taken or her in preparation of asking for a ransom. Victor and Rico are the kidnappers, with Victor an incredibly intense, paranoid and dominant person, who met the softer, more gentle Rico in prison, and who has plotted their latest attempt to make a lot of cash. [Read more…]

The Gunman (Blu-ray Review)

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Until recently the prospect of Sean Penn starring in a movie meant that while the film was likely to be a little bit tedious, he would be extremely good in it and the movie would be worth a watch. However, with Gangster Squad, Walter Mitty and The Gunman, he seems to be trying his hand at more standard fare.

Unfortunately though, all the Gunman offers is more of what we’ve seen 1,000 times before. In fact, I almost wonder if in the pact actors make with Hollywood, it includes a clause that makes it compulsory for them to star in at least one movie about an assassin having an existential crisis. [Read more…]

The Third Man (Blu-ray Review)

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As you might have guessed, a lot of my friends are film fans. However, I was genuinely surprised how few of them had seen The Third Man. Everyone had heard of it, knew Orson Welles was in it and quite a few knew cuckoo clocks were involved somehow, but hardly any had seen it all the way through.

That’s a shame, as it’s a great film. The wonderful Joseph Cotten (who should be considered one of the screen’s greatest actors but normally gets overlooked) plays pulp novelist Holly Martins, who arrives in Vienna to start a new job that’s been offered to him by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). He finds a city that in the post-war era is still in crisis and where the black market is flourishing. [Read more…]