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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

Win The Gay-Themed Series I’m Fine On DVD!

October 9, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Initially released on the LGBT-focused streaming service Dekkoo, I’m Fine – Season 1 has now been released on DVD in the UK, giving a wider audience the chance to catch up with the adventures of Nate and his friends. And we’ve got three copies to give away in this competition.

Cute, 20-something Nate isn t hurting for dates. Even his best friend Jeff confesses his feelings in a moment of drunken vulnerability. Nate, though, is still hopelessly obsessed with his ex-boyfriend Joey. Poignant, sexy and funny, this brand-new original gay series follows Nate as he tries to find closure and break himself out of romantic purgatory.

For your chance to win I’m Fine – Season 1 on DVD, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on October 23rd, 2017, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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Wonder Woman (Blu-ray Review) – Can one woman beat the whole German army? Pretty much!

October 9, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Robin Wright, David Thewlis
Director: Patty Jenkins
Running Time: 141 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: October 9th 2017 (UK)

Although DC’s movies have done okay at the box office, the likes of Man Of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad certainly haven’t gained the same level of enthusiasm and fan fervour as Marvel’s movies. However, with Wonder Woman they hit the jackpot, with a movie that was well-received by critics, fans and general audiences, grossing over $800 million at the box office. It set a lot of records for a movie directed by a woman along the way, from being the most expensive film with a female director to the highest grossing.

The film starts out on the mystical island of Themyscira, home of the Amazons. Diana (Gal Gadot) has been trained to be the ultimate warrior, although her mother, Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), is determined that she needs to be protected and shouldn’t find out the truth of her birth. [Read more…]

BPM (Beats Per Minute) US Trailer – Robin Campillo’s Cannes prize-winning tribute to HIV/AIDS activism

October 8, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

AKA 120 Beats Per Minute, Robin Campillo’s movie has gained a lot of buzz since its Cannes debut. At the festivals the movie won the Queer Palm for the best LGBT movie, the prestigious Fipresci award for the best film at the festival from the International Federation of Film Critics, and second biggest award at the fest, the Gran Prix. It’s since been chosen as France’s Oscar contender for the Besti Foreign Language Film Academy Award.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group’s radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.’

The movie will be released in US cinemas from October 20th. It will arrive in the UK April 2018. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Robin Campillo  

Gore Verbinski May Direct Channing Tatum In The X-Men Spinoff, Gambit

October 8, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Fox has long harboured ambitions to make an X-Men movies based around Gambit. Since 2014 Channing Tatum has been attached to the movie, which has moved through various directors and screenwriters, but still hasn’t gone in front of the cameras.

They’re now trying to push forward again, with Pirates Of The Caribbean director Gore Verbinski now in talks to helm the movie, according to THR. Previously the likes of Doug Liman and Rupert Wytt have been attached to direct the film, but it has been completely reworked since then.

Verbinski directed the first three Pirates movies, then followed that with the less successful The Lone Ranger. Most recently he went slightly smaller scale with the creepy A Cure For Wellness. Gambit currently has not release date set.

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ACTORS: Channing Tatum  DIRECTORS: Gore Verbinski  FILMS: Gambit (2016)  

Gay Short Film Showcase: The Mess He Made – Waiting for the results of a rapid HIV test

October 4, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Matthew Puccini’s The Mess He Made has a deceptively simple set-up – a man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV test in a small-town strip mall. However, over the course of 10-minutes that allows it to unpick the ritual of the test and the anxious wait of the main character, as he considers the choices he’s made and what the test could mean for both his future and his past.

Puccini told Huffpo, “A close friend and I both had HIV scares last summer. I remember sitting in the cramped waiting room at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in midtown Manhattan, with my mind racing through all of these crazy hypotheticals, all these conversations I was dreading having to have. It felt important to make something that reflected our experience [and] showed the HIV screening process in a detailed, contemporary light.”

The film has now been released online, and you can take a look at it below. If you know a short film we ought to be posting, tell us by getting in touch via our contact page. And check out more gay short films and web series here. [Read more…]

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Kate Winslet Reteaming With James Cameron For Avatar Sequels

October 4, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

With shooting finally starting of James Cameron’s sequels to Avatar, a few new cast members are coming onboard to join the likes of Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Signourney Weaver (or at least their motion-captured forms). Now Deadline reports that one of the newcomers will be Kate Winslet, who’ll reteam with Cameron for the first time since Titanic.

The director says, “Kate and I have been looking for something to do together for 20 years, since our collaboration on Titanic, which was one of the most rewarding of my career. I can’t wait to see her bring the character of Ronal to life.”

What Cameron doesn’t reveal though is who Ronal is and how she fits into the movie. There have been few story details released, although it’s known he’s planning four sequels to be released between 2020 and 2025. The stories will introduce us to Jake Sully and Neytiri’s children, as well as other tribes of Na’vi such as the Metkayina, who live on oceanic atoll reefs.

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ACTORS: Kate Winslet  DIRECTORS: James Cameron  FILMS: Avatar 2  

First Look At Ben Whishaw & Hugh Grant Getting Involved In A Gay Scandal

October 3, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Although largely forgotten today, the saga of Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott was the biggest British political scandal of the 1970s – indeed some dubbed it the case of the century. It had everything the tabloids loved to feast on – a major party leader, the hint of homosexuality, a court case involving incitement to murder and even a dead dog! John Preston’s 2016 novel about the case, A Very English Scandal, is currently being made into a limited TV series, and the first picture from the show has now been released.

Ben Whishaw is playing Norman Scott, while Hugh Grant takes his first TV role in 20 years as Jeremy Thorpe. The show itself will recount the rather complicated affair, which involved a secret relationship between Thorpe and the younger Norman Scott. Thorpe’s political star rose as the leader of the Liberal Party throught the 1970s, to the point where the party picked up almost 20% of the vote in the February 1974 election. It was the biggest success for a third party in decades and threatened to break down the two-party system (Conservative and Labour) that had been in place for decades.

However, as Norman began to feel increasingly as if he’d been mistreated by the politician, things began to get complicated, especially when rumours about the affair between the two started to circulate. Thorpe and those around him knew that if stories about the politician and Scott hit the mainstream press, it would probably be the end of the married Thorpe’s career, as well as ruining the best chance the Liberal Party had to became a major political force again. This led to beatings and an attempt on Scott’s life, which resulted in his dog being shot. Thorpe later went on trial accused of being involved in the conspiracy to murder his former lover. He denied that he knew anything about the ‘hit’, as well as denying he’d ever been in a phsical relationship with Scott.

You can read more about it over at Wikipedia.

Queer As Folk’s Russell T. Davis is on scripting duties for A Very British Scandal, while Stephen Frears, who worked with Hugh Grant on Florence Foster Jenkins, will direct. Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge, Monica Dolan, Adrian Scarborough, Jason Watkins, Eve Myles, Michele Dotrice and Blake Harrison will also star. The show will air on the BBC in the UK next year, while it’s likely to debut on Amazon Prime in many other territories.

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ACTORS: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant  DIRECTORS: Stephen Frears  FILMS: A Very English Scandal  

LGBT Film Projects Are Bidding To Be Crowdfunding ‘Hometown Heroes’ For The Duplass Brothers

September 30, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As writers, directors and producers, Mark and Jay Duplass have become key players in US indie film, using their profile to help champion a wide variety of movies made outside the mainstream. They’re now backing a Seed&Spark crowdfunding rally, which has brought together 73 prospective movies to help them raise funds.

The 10 films that get the most followers by October 13th will qualify for the finals and get to pitch The Duplass Brothers. Up to five could then get a $25,000 cash boost to their production budget, and get Duplass Brothers as executive producers.

Those competing includes several LGBT-related titles. That includes Andrew Paul Davis’ Indiana, which at the time of writing was just inside the top 10 movies. One of the film’s three leading characters is a lesbian student attending a Christian college. Alexa (Emily Sweet) wants to get her music noticed, but struggles to find an audience for rap. Her story mixes with that of Chris (Todd Bruno), a hardened auto-mechanic, who hopes to inspire a resurgence of white supremacist rhetoric in his community, and Chuck (Joe Martyn Ricke) lives a prematurely retired life in a little room above a bar in Fairmount, Indiana.

There’s also Test, which follows a young bodybuilder living in the Appalachians, who defies his religious mother when he follows Ohio’s ‘best’ coach into a world of steroid abuse and exploitation. Brock Yurich’s film explores the correlation between sexual repression and drug addiction, with substance abuse more than twice as prevalent amongst young LGBT people compared to the general population.

DIY meanwhile, is ‘A comedy about the institution of marriage from a queer perspective. As Josh and Matilda get sucked into the Wedding Planning Vortex, they are determined to do it their own way. Class and gender norms collide in this brazen carnival of non-conforming characters.’

In the horror film Wretch, ‘Nat’s long suffered hallucinatory psychic fits. Booze dulls the visions. Recently returned home to KC, buoyed by best friend Aleah and new partner Adam he’s got 30 days sobriety, a good job, a tenuous peace. But one cancer diagnosis, relapse and cult indoctrination later, all hell breaks loose.’

The queer rom-com Like Wonderland, based on Erica Messenger’s play, follows ‘Alice on her journey through love, confusion, heartbreak, and growing up in this romantic comedy that challenges you to question expectations and forge your own path through “Wonderland.”‘

You can find out more about all the movies over at Seed&Spark.

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Hugh Jackman Stands Up To Support Same-Sex Marriage In Australia

September 30, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Things are getting heated in Australia as voting happens in the country’s same-sex marriage referendum. With the postal vote taking place over several weeks, it’s allowing passions to get heated on both sides, with the ‘no’ camp getting hysterical enough that they tried to stop Macklemore from singing ‘Same Love’ at a sporting event, as if that was going to be the deciding factor.

Aussie stars who’s stood up to speak out have nearly all been in the ‘yes’ camp, and perhaps not too surprisingly that now includes Hugh Jackman, who’s long been a supporter of gay rights. He took to Twitter to says that he and his wife Deborah-Lee Furness, ‘believe all Australians deserve to be treated equally under the law. That’s why Deb & I are voting YES #equality and #love!’

Jackman joins the likes of Kylie and Danni Minogue,and Chris and Liam Hemsworth, who’ve voiced their support for same sex marriage in Australia. Polls suggest a majority of Aussie support a change in the law, but even so it’s believed the vote may be close, partly as it’s believed those opposing same sex marriage are more likely to vote than those who either support or are ambivalent about it. The final result will be announced in November. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Hugh Jackman  

The Ornithologist Trailer – The erotic, gay festival fave arrives in the UK soon

September 30, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Over the past year, The Ornithologist has been picking up plaudits at festivals around the world, winning numerous awards along the way. It’s taken a while to get to the UK, but now it’s on its way, arriving in select cinemas on October 6th, before hitting DVD/VoD in early November.

Portuguese filmmaker Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ movie was inspired by the journeys of Saint Anthony of Padua, as well as Rodrigues’ own life.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for endangered black storks along a remote river in northern Portugal, when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrim girls on their way to Santiago de Compostela, he plunges into a dark, eerie forest, trying to get back on track. But as he encounters unexpected and uncanny obstacles and people who put him to the test, Fernando is driven to extreme, transformative actions. Gradually he becomes a different man: inspired, multifaceted, and finally enlightened.’

Take a look at the UK trailer below. [Read more…]

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