With the likes of Call Me By Your Name, God’s Own Country and Beach Rats, it was a particularly good year for gay-themed movies at Sundance. The last of those is now heading towards its US release, and to give us a feel for the flick, a new clip has been released (initially over at The Daily Beast).
Here’s the synopsis: ‘On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men. When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he begins meeting men at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences. Eliza Hittman’s award-winning Sundance hit is a powerful character study that is as visually stunning as it is evocative.’
Beach Rats is will be in US cinemas from August 25th, and should arrive in the UK in November. Take a look at the clip below. [Read more…]
Since it was revealed that Disney/Lucasfilm planned to make a Star Wars movie every year, interspresing the continuation of the ‘main’ storyline with looks at other aspects of a galaxy far, far away, there’s been a lot of speculation about what those expanded universe will be. We’ve already had Rogue One, next year Han Solo’s getting his own spin-off, and they’re also working on Yoda and Boba Fett movies.
We haven’t seen many gay-themed films from The Philippines, but we should be getting one soon in the form of Four Days. It’s a tale of slow-burning desire and romance, and looks like it might be rather sweet.
Originally made as a web series, Three has since been picked up by the gay subscription streaming service, Dekkoo.com, and now it’s heading for DVD so that an even wider audience can take a look. It certainly looks like it might be an interesting one.
Despite having a title that sounds a little too much like a 1990s straight ‘erotic thriller’, the gay-themed short film collection Furious Desires looks like it might be pretty good. It presents a series of films which, as the title suggests, looks at different forms of desire.
If it’s a French LGBT-themed film it’s problably going to be moody, a bit (pseudo-)intellectual and have plenty of sex in it. That may be an over-generalisation, but it looks like it’s true of Even Lovers Get The Blue.
Synopsis: Albert is an eccentric, ageing painter who doubles as an unconventional, Jung-inspired psychotherapist. When his friend asks him to counsel her grandson Ben, whose boyfriend problems are fuelling an already deep depression, their subsequent therapy sessions reveal as much about Albert as they do about Ben.
He’s certainly kept Bond fans on the edge of their seat, but Daniel Craig has confirmed that he will indeed play James Bond in the upcoming 007 movie, which is currently just known as ‘Bond 25’. It puts to rest almost two years of speculation and rumour over whether he would be back or not.
Cate Blanchett and Jack Black aren’t the first people you’d think of for a movie directed by Eli Roth, the man behind Hostel, Cabin Fever and The Green Inferno. However, Black is already onboard his upcoming The House With A Clock In Its Walls, while 
Kuntergrau might have passed most English-speaking areas by – until now – but it’s claimed that it’s currently continental Europe’s most popular gay-themed web series. That’s all the more remarkable considering it’s produced on a voluntary basis as part of the youth work of Europe’s oldest LGBT youth center: the „anyway“ youth center in Cologne, Germany.