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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

Thor: Ragnarok (Cinema Review) – The God of Thunder is back & so is The Hulk

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I have absolutely no problem with Disney churning out Marvel (or Star Wars) films as long as the quality is up to scratch. Thankfully, they are indeed on point with this third and possibly final Thor movie.

Thor: Ragnarok is set two years after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – although that film’s events seemed more like a week rather than an age – and our hero Thor, the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth), is forewarned about Ragnarok: a prophecy that spells the destruction of his homeland of Asgard. [Read more…]

B&B (DVD Review) – Things get deadly for a gay couple during a trip to a remote hotel

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Gay couple Marc (Tom Bateman) and Fred (Sean Teale) have won a case against a Christian bed and breakfast owner who wouldn’t allow them to share a bed. In order to gloat/revel in their victory, they have returned to the B&B, where the owner, Josh (Paul McGann), has decided everyone will now have to have single beds, whether they’re gay, straight, married or single.

They also meet Josh’s teenage son, Paul (Callum Woodhouse), who appears to be hiding his sexuality from his homophobic father. There’s also one other guest, a hulking Russian called Alexie. Marc is convinced that Alexie might also be gay, while Fred thinks he may be there for more sinister reasons, especially when he realises the Russian’s tattoos could mean he’s a killer. [Read more…]

Teenage Kicks (DVD Review) – Tragedy changes a young man’s life in the gay-themed Aussie film

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Back in 2009, director Craig Boreham made the acclaimed short film Drowning, starring Miles Szanto and Xavier Samuel (who went on to appear in the likes of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Fury). Teenage Kicks is the long-gestating feature-length version of that short, which despite the passage of eight years brings back Szanto in the central role. It continues Australia’s recent run of strong, sometimes raw, gay-themed films.

Mik (Szanto) is a young, second generation immigrant, who’s keen to get away from his family and head off somewhere new with his best friend Dan (Dan Webber). Things change however when Mik’s brother dies in an accident – a collision Mik witnessed but pretends that he didn’t. [Read more…]

Palace Of Fun (DVD Review) – Things get psychosexual & a little gay in Brighton

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Lily and Jamie are enjoying the fact that while it’s summer, they have their parents posh Sussex house to themselves. This idyll is disrupted when Lily brings her brand new boyfriend, Finn, into the house for the weekend.

Jamie seems uncertain about this interloper, who is gettin in the way of his time with his sister. However, when he discovers a secret about Finn, it sets off a series of events where blackmail develops into Jamie finding ways to satisfy his sexual desires and need for power. [Read more…]

Win The Gay-Themed British Thriller Palace Of Fun On DVD!

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The unusual Brighton set thriller, Palace Of Fun, hits DVD and VoD in the UK on October 23rd, courtesy of TLA Releasing. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies in this competition.

Lily and Finn begin a summer romance after they meet one evening in a nightclub. Instantly smitten with one another, Finn is invited to spend a week in Lily’s opulent Sussex house until her parents return from their trip to Italy. However, the situation is disrupted when Jamie, Lily’s younger brother, fortuitously discovers a revealing secret about Finn. But instead of telling Lily what he knows, Jamie decides to use it to play a dangerous and sinister game.

For your chance to win Palace Of Fun on DVD, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on November 4th, 2017, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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Prom King, 2010 (Iris Prize Best Feature Winner Review) – Will a young man find Hollywood love or just feel like a gay imposter?

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Charlie (Christopher Schaap) is a young gay man in college. He has grown up watching classic Hollywood movies, which have filled his head with the idea that love should feel like it’s in slow motion and in Technicolor hyper-reality. However, as he negotiates romance, friendship and the realities of being gay in the 21st Century, he soon discovers things aren’t going to be as simple as they are in an old black and white romances.

Over the course of his college career Charlie looks for love, getting very close to it with some guys, but spectacularly failing with others. As he discovers, hot waiters who take your anal virginity, or friends you might have feelings for don’t offer ‘happily ever after’ just because it would be neat if they did. It may not just be his need for a fully symphonic Hollywood love story that’s the problem though, as it can be tough just to find your place in a gay world that you don’t quite feel like you belong to. [Read more…]

The Mummy (Blu-ray Review) – Tom Cruise is cursed (in several ways)!

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While Hollywood has become increasingly obsessed with interconnected universes, Universal Pictures has felt a little left out due to the lack of comic book characters they own the rights to. To make up for it, they decided to go back to the classic movie monsters that the studio had such success with in the 1930s (indeed, they created an interconnected world of them back then). They’ve been busy attempting to build a linked series of movies around them, called Dark Universe.

The Mummy was the film designed to kick off the Dark Universe, with a big budget, an a-list star and a property everyone knows thanks to its 1990s/2000s resurrection with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. The response from critics and US audiences was muted however, with American box office stalling (although it did manage $400 million globally) and an abysmal RottenTomatoes rating (currently 16%). That’s caused a bit of a rethink about how the Dark Universe is going to pan out, with Bride Of Frankenstein pushed back, and the likes of The Invisible Man (with Johnny Depp) and The Wolfman currently without a release date. [Read more…]

Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-ray Review) – Robots and explosions, what did you expect?

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People often complain that the big Hollywood movies have no story. If nothing else the Transformers movies have attempted to do something about that. Rather than having no story, they have all the stories, non-stop, simultaneously and accompanied by never-ending explosions. It’s never mattered whether it made any sense or if it’s managed to contradict itself in the same sentence, as long as something is going on that appears to be a plotline.

That continues with The Last Knight, which is moderately more coherent than Dark Of The Moon, and slightly less pointless than Age Of Extinction – and yes, that is damning it with faint praise, but it does mean those who’ve liked what’s gone before, will probably enjoy this one. [Read more…]

EastSiders: Season 3 Trailer – Kit Williamson & Van Hansis return in the gay-themed series

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Few gay themed web series have seen the success of Eastsiders. Indeed, it’s difficult to really call it a web series, as while it started on Youtube, it’s since made its way to TV and DVD, got pulled together into a film, had a very successful second season, and scored a couple of Daytime Emmy nominations. And now it’s coming back for a third season.

The trailer for that third instalment has now arrived. In the new season, familiar faces such as Kit Williamson and Van Hansis will be joined this time around by the likes of COnstance Wu, Willam Belli, Stephen Guarino, Colby Keller and WIlson Cruz.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Season 2 of the Daytime Emmy nominated series “EastSiders,” (Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series) left Cal (Kit Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis, Daytime Emmy nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series) determined to make things work, despite some confusing developments in their newly monogomish relationship.

‘After a challenging year in New York City, the guys hit the road back wet to Los Angeles to pick up the pieces of their old life, but nothing can prepare them for the unexpected twists and turns they’ll face on the journey home. As they travel west, their tumultuous relationship is tested by an empty bank account, arguments about the future and an encounter with a handsome drifter that tempts them to once again redraw the map of their relationship. Will this be the trip of their lives, or the end of the road?’

“It’s been a whirlwind year shooting the new season of EastSiders on location in 16 states, and we’re beyond excited to share six new episodes with everyone this November,” Williamson comments (via EW), “It’s also been incredible to take the show on the road and meet so many fans at festivals across the country, and we are thrilled to bring an exclusive preview screening of the first episode to NewFest in New York this Saturday.”

The first episode screens as part of New York’s Newfest on October 21st, with everyone else getting to see it when it’s released on various digital platforms (iTunes, Google Play etc.) and DVD from October 28th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Mixed Messages Trailer – The alternative Berlin queer scene comes to life in the Lesbian film

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Synopsis: ‘Mixed Messages follows 36-year-old London dyke Ren (played by newcomer Alana Lake), as she navigates her way through the treacherous terrain of the alternative Berlin queer scene. From speed-dating to bondage from meditation to being trapped in a hammock with someone who is more interested in their Tinder profile, each episode shows Ren sinking further and further into ambiguity and confusion until the only way out is to send a few mixed messages of her own.

‘One year single in the Berlin queer scene – how hard can it be?’

Peccadillo Pictures is releasing Mixed Messages in the UK on DVD and VoD on December 4th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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