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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

Equal Marriage Viral Vid ‘Homecoming’ Launched

April 25, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If you don’t support equal marriage, you hate our troops! Well, that’s not really what the new viral vid, Homecoming, is all about, even though it almost is. The Coalition For Equal Marriage short film, from director Mike Buonaiuto, tells the touching story of a British soldier’s homecoming to his partner, and was made to support marriage equality while the UK Coalition Government is holding its consultation on whether to open civil marriage up to same sex partnerships.

Buonaiuto says, “What do you do when the government says they are going to change the marriage laws in the UK? Those against the idea will of course go to any lengths to let David Cameron know how they feel, while many who support the idea sit back and do nothing, and why shouldn’t they? The government has made the commitment to change. However, I would argue that if enough support isn’t shown for the consultation then who knows what will happen.

“The apathy within the communities that support the equalization of civil marriage is the single driving factor for making the film and why hundreds of talented professionals have helped us for free. The film is there to make audiences feel something about the issue, because when people feel something they do something about it.  They don’t sit back. They don’t do nothing. They share, they support and they take notice.”

One thing I have noticed in all the gay viral vids is how insanely cute all the guys in them are. Does this mean that even if they change the law, ugly gay people still won’t be allowed to marry? Perhaps next we need to make a viral vid about that!

Behind The Scenes

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Chris Evans Says He’s ‘Embarrassed’ By Marriage Inequality

April 23, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Avengers star Chris Evans has long been an ally of the gays, partly because his brother prefers boys to girls (Chris accidentally outed his bro to The Advocate in 2009). While promoting his latest superhero mash-up, the insanely hot actor has been talking to Playboy and touched on the subject of marriage equality.

He says, “It’s insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It’s embarrassing, and it’s heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I’m completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we’ll be ashamed that this was an issue.”

Go for it Chris, and hopefully he’ll turn out to be right!

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ACTORS: Chris Evans  

The Last Summer Of La Boyita (DVD)

April 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Guadalupe Alonso, Nicolas Treise, Mirella Pascaul, Gabo Correa
Director: Julia Solomonoff
Running Time: 85 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: April 23rd, 2012

Why do people in rural Argentina, a country that speaks Spanish, look like they just fell out of 19th Century France? The continental cultural melting pot always adds an extra layer of interest to South American movies, where various European cultures from all sorts of different eras butt up against indigenous cultures and the modern world. That’s in the background of The Last Summer Of La Boyita, a charming and somewhat brave film that takes a look at the ambiguity of gender, as seen through the eyes of children [Read more…]

1st Poster & Clip From Lesbian Werewolf Drama Jack & Diane

April 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


We reported last month that Jack & Diane was set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. That’s now happened and now timed to coincide with that, the first clip and poster for the movie have arrived.

Riley Keough and Juno Temple star in the film, which has been widely described as a werewolf film, although many have said that’s slightly misleading. The movie is about two teenage girls who meet in New York City and despite being very different, spark up a relationship. When Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane struggles to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions. Jena Malone also stars, with Kyle Minogue popping up in the movie as a tattooed lesbian. Hopefully the movie will reach the UK later this year.

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Clone Trailer – Doctor Who gets his bum out and has one hell of an Oedipus complex

April 20, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Doctor Who himself, Matt Smith, makes his movie debut in Clone (an uncredited part in In Bruges doesn’t count), where he has to deal with the ultimate Oedipus complex, where he’s the clone of his mother’s dead lover! As the tagline for the US release put it – ‘What are the consequences of giving birth to your dead boyfriend?’ The answer to that is that they’re pretty f*cked up. Eva Green also stars, continuing her run of sci-fi delving into deep and dark places, which she’s also explored  in the likes of Perfect Sense and Franklyn.

However I’d imagine there’s a lot of people who’ll want to watch the trailer above, just because you get to see Matt Smith’s bum!

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ACTORS: Matt Smith, Eva Green  DIRECTORS: Benedek Fliegauf  FILMS: Clone  

Beauty (Skoonheid) (Cinema)

April 19, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Running Time: 98 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: April 20th, 2012

Winner of the Queer Palm at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Beauty is one of those films on queer themes which stretches beyond just a gay audience. It’s a thought-provoking film full of tension, which will stay in your head long after the credits role.

Francois (Deon Lotz) is a middle-aged man living in South Africa. On the surface everything seems perfectly fine, although his marriage seems utterly devoid of any sign of affection. However his life is actually a morass of contradictions, so that he hates gay people, but goes off to retreats to have sex with others men (although actual gays and blacks are banned from these occasions). He seems to have everything pretty much under control though until he meets Christian (Charlie Keegan), the son of a long-lost friend. [Read more…]

The Divide (Cinema)

April 18, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Xavier Gens
Running Time: 112 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: April 20th, 2012

I think it’s safe to say that if you want a nice, jolly couple of hours, The Divide probably isn’t the best movie to watch. It’s dark, relentlessly pessimistic, often unpleasant and more than a little depressing. It’s certainly not completely without merit, but it ain’t fun.

In the great, no fuss opening, a nuclear explosion is tearing through New York City and a group of random people race for the safety of a basement/slash bomb shelter. The owner of the basement, Mickey (Michael Biehn), doesn’t want them down there, but with radiation swirling above, he doesn’t have much choice. [Read more…]

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Cinema)

April 16, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Running Time: 106 mins
Certificate: 12A
Release Date: April 20th, 2012

Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is a buttoned down man living a buttoned down life. He works as a scientist at the Department Of Agriculture & Fisheries, working on projects that will only be of interest to a tiny few fishermen and wishes nothing more than to be left alone to get on with his studies. Outside his job his marriage is stuck in a rut, where it feels like things have reached an end, but nobody wants to say it.

Things begin to chance when he’s forced to go to a meeting with Harriet (Emily Blunt), who looks after the UK holdings of a ridiculously wealthy sheikh (Amr Waked). The sheikh has a dream – to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen. Without spending any time thinking about it, Fred brands the project ludicrous and decides the sort of person who’d want to do must be incredibly selfish, putting their passions ahead of their people. [Read more…]

Battleship (Cinema)

April 11, 2012 By Stephen Sclater Leave a Comment

Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, Liam Neeson
Director: Peter Berg
Running Time: 131 mins
Certificate: 12A
Release Date: April 11th, 2012

Just picture it – writer goes to see producer and says I have an idea for a movie, “Let’s base it on a game, say Battleship. We’ll make the enemy Aliens (Transformers style), set it in Pearl Harbor – with our allies being the Japanese, of all people – and let’s debut the worlds biggest pop star in her movie debut! You can think of it as Top Gun meets Independence Day!” Producer proceeds to mentally count the cash he thinks he’ll make.

This is basically the premise of one of the most anticipated films of the year – which to be honest isn’t a great state of affairs, if this is all Hollywood can deliver. That said, with an estimated budget of over $200M, you have to hope it’ll do better than last years’ two alien invasion efforts, Skyline and Battle Los Angeles. [Read more…]

Dan Radcliffe Talks Gay Sex Scenes In New Film

April 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever wanted to see Daniel Radcliffe snogging another guy, your chance will come soon when Kill Your Darlings is released, which features the Harry Potter actor as gay poet Allen Ginsberg.

He’s been talking to People Magazine and touched on whether he found the gay sex scenes awkward. He known to be very gay friendly, but simulating gay sex may have been another matter. However he says, “There was no discomfort. There have been moments when Dane [DeHaan – Chronicle], the object of my affection in the film, and I did start giggling.”

As for whether Harry Potter fans will mind him playing gay, he says, “Well, they were comfortable with Equus, and that had me simulating sex on the back of a horse, so this is a walk in the park.”

Kill Your Darlings speculates around real-life events involving beat generation legends Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs. They were all brought together by Columbia University student Lucien Carr, who was implicated in (and served time for) the murder of David Kammerer, who was found dead in Hudson River in 1944. Carr claimed the death was an accident after Kammerer made an unwanted sexual advance, although they had known each other for several years (and it has been claimed they were lovers). The events surrounding the death are said to have had a massive impact on the beat circle, and tempered the idealism they had felt beforehand.

The film also stars Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Cross and Kyra Sedgwick, and should be in cinemas later this year. (Quotes via Out)

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe  DIRECTORS: John Krokidas  FILMS: Kill Your Darlings  
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