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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

Kristen Stewart May Lead A New Charlie’s Angels Movie

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After Twilight and Snow White & The Huntsman, Kristen Stewart has spent the majority of her time making indie movies and more dramatic porjects. However, if Sony gets their way, she’ll be coming back to the big budget mainstream as one of a new band of Charlie’s Angels.

Variety reports that the studio and director Elizabeth Banks are looking at Stewart, although it doesn’t appear Kristen is ready to sign up just yet. She is apparently near the top of a list that includes several other actresses being considered for the kick-ass team, including Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o.

The planned film will reboot the franchise once more, following the 1970s TV shows, the early 2000s movies (which starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu), and a short-lived 2011 TV reinvention. It will again follow a team of female private detectives, although not much is known about whether the plot or how it will handle the Angels concept.

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Rift Trailer – A tense Hitchcockian thriller gets a little gay

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Synopsis: ‘Gunner receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar, months after they broke up. Einar sounds distraught, like he’s about to do something terrible to himself, so Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there’s more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.’

Child Eater director Erlingur Thoroddsen’s film has been described as an ‘atmospheric Hitchcockian thriller’. It certainly looks like it could be worth a watch.

The movie will be released on DVD/VoD in the US on November 21st, via Breaking Glass Pictures. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Body Electric Trailer – Things gets sexy during a tale of gay life in Brazil

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Central and South America has become very good at producing entertaining and sexy LGBT cinema. It looks like we’ve got another one on the cards with Body Electric.

Synopsis: ‘An erotic tale of identity and sexuality set in modern day Brazil. Elias works as an assistant designer in a clothing factory.  As the distance between his professional and personal life closes, Elias explores his desires, invigorated by the freedom offered through his companions.  Against the warnings of his superiors, Elias takes to socialising into the night with his co-workers.

‘This feature debut by director Marcelo Caetano captures the beauty and delicate excitement of Elias’ sexual awakening, as seen through the intense colour and vibrancy of São Paulo.’

The movie is due out in the UK via Peccadillo Pictures on October 16th. Take a look at the trailer for the film below. [Read more…]

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Man In An Orange Shirt (DVD Review) – Two gay lives, separated by 70 years

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It may be 2017 and gay marriage is legal in the UK, but it’s still incredibly rare for a mainstream British TV show to focus on gay characters and stories, especially a Sunday night BBC period mini-series. However, we got one with Man In An Orange Shirt, one of the centrepieces of the Gay Britannia season, marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in England and Wales.

It’s also a somewhat unusual two-parter, as the first episode is set almost exclusively in the 1940s and 1950s, while the second episode leaps forward into the modern day. [Read more…]

Baywatch: Extended Edition (Blu-ray Review) – Zac Efron & Dwayne Johnson don the red shorts

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It was almost inevitable that at some point they’d make a movie version of Baywatch. It was, after all, the most popular TV show in the world in the 1990s, and its reputation for being a bit silly and cheesy meant it was ripe for comedy/parody. However, it’s also the sort of property that could have resulted in a truly dreadful film.

I suppose I ought to say what the Baywatch movie is about, but it doesn’t matter an awful lot, as the plot often feels like the least important part of the film. Dwayne Johnson is Mitch Buchanan, head of Emerald Bay’s lifeguards. He has a new recruit thrust upon him – disgraced double Olympic swimming champion Matt Brody (Zac Efron). The young buck isn’t that impressed about being there, and thinks the lifeguards should be honoured he’s walking amongst them. He’s also a bit confused about why Mitch and his fellow guards seem to spend most of their time fighting crime rather than saving people from drowning. [Read more…]

Russell Tovey Set To Play Gay Superhero The Ray In Arrow-verse Crossover Event

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A few years ago out actor Russell Tovey had never played a gay character on screen. That’s certainly changed, as he’s played a range of interesting LGBT characters in everything from Looking to Quantico. Now he’s set to play a gay superhero as part of an upcoming four-episode Arrow-verse crossover event, which will bring together the characters from the likes of Arrow, Supergirl and The Flash.

They’re also bringing in some of the characters from the animated DC shows that air on CW Seed, and that includes Tovey as The Ray. Russell is voicing the character in an upcoming animated show, and will then turn him live-action for the crossover event that will air in November.

The Ray is, Ray Terrill, a reporter who discovered a group of government scientists working on a secret project to turn light into a weapon of mass destruction. Before he could report on his findings, the project head exposed Ray to a “genetic light bomb.” The bomb failed to kill him and instead gifted Ray with light-based powers. With these abilities, Ray realised he could go beyond reporting on injustice – he could take action to help stop it.

You can take a look at the trailer for the animated show here.

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Aaron McCusker To Play Freddie Mercury’s Boyfriend In Bohemian Rhapsody

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Director Bryan Singer is busy putting the final pieces in place for Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of Freddie Mercury and the band, Queen. The latest to join is Aaron McCusker, who’s set to play Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury’s boyfriend.

As Deadline reports, Hutton was a ‘hairdresser… who was with Mercury for the last six years of the Queen frontman’s life. Hutton nursed him when he was ill and was by his side when he died in 1991. Mercury died wearing a wedding ring that Hutton had given him. After they developed a relationship together, however, Mercury often would distance himself from Hutton publicly, but privately they were heavily involved in a long-term romance.’

However, it’s likely we’ll see them in the early days of their relationship, as it’s believed the film will end with Queen’s triumphant performance at Live Aid in 1985.

Rami Malek is set to play Mercury, with Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joe Mazello as John Deacon and Gwilym Lee as Brian May. The likes of Mike Myers and Allen Leech will also star. The film is set for a Christmas 2018 release.

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Linda Hamilton Will Be Back As Sarah Connor In A New Terminator Movie

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It’s been a long time since Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor. She stepped away from the franchise after Terminator 2 back in 1991. However, now that James Cameron is returning to produce what he hopes will be a new trilogy, Hamilton has decided she’d be happy to return to the role too.

Arnie is also attached to the new films, with Tim Miller (Deadpool), set to direct.

THR first reported on the news of Hamilton’s return, reporting Cameron as saying, “As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then [when T2 was made], it’s going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she’s become return… There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys, but there isn’t an example of that for women.”

At the moment there’s no info on the plot or how the original Sarah Connor will fit into it. Indeed, it appears that they’re currently still piecing the overarching storyline of the trilogy together, but now know they can include Hamilton within those plans. There is one nugget Cameron has released about the movies, saying “We’re starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story. We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present. There will be mostly new characters, but we’ll have Arnold and Linda’s characters to anchor it.”

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Against The Law (DVD Review) – A look back at one of Britain’s most infamous gay sex scandals

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Against the Law was the opening night film of this year’s BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival and one of the centrepieces of the BBC’s Gay Britannia series. It’s easy to see why a film about Peter Wildeblood seemed apt this year. He was one of the key figures in what happened in the run up to the Wolfenden Report, which recommenced that gay male sex in England and Wales should be decriminalised. Although it took 10 years for the government to act, eventually gay sex was partly made legal 50 years ago in 1967.

The events were previously turned into a very good 2007 docudrama by Channel 4 in the form of A Very British Sex Scandal (the 50th Anniversary of the Wolfenden report). However, while A Very British Sex Scandal was mostly interested in the beginning of the story, Against The Law focuses its thematic energies on what happened next. It also includes documentary elements, with a collection of older gentlemen offering their remembrances of what life was like when being gay was illegal. It’s a style reminiscent of Switzerland’s excellent gay movie, The Circle (Der Kreis), which was also a proper film, but included contributions from real people involved in the world it was talking about. [Read more…]

First Look At Stranger Things’ David Harbour As A Muscly, Shirtless Rebooted Hellboy

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The more things change​, the more they stay the same. Quite a few people were annoyed a couple of months ago when it was revealed that any faint hopes that Ron Perlman and Guillermo Del Toro would complete their Hellboy trilogy had been extinguished, as the character was getting a film reboot with Stranger Things star David Harbour as the good-guy demon.

Now the first look at the actor in character has been released, showing that while there are definitely differences, they haven’t strayed too far from the look Perlman and Del Toro went with.

There will be other differences too, as Neill Marshall is directed, and we’ve been promised that this time around the movie will be more violent and ‘R’ rated. Harbour himself released the image on Twitter, along with the message, ‘Please allow to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste…’.

Alongside Harbour, Ian McShane will play Hellboy’s adoptive human father, Trevor Bruttenholm, while Milla Jovovich will be the movie’s main villain, the Blood Queen. No release date has been set as yet, but expect it sometime in 2018, or early 2019. [Read more…]

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