A Bigger Splash helmer Luca Guadagnino got massive plaudits and talk of a breakout hit at Sundance when his gay-themed movie Call Me By Your Name debuted. He’s also finishing up the long-gestating remake of Suspiria.
However, for his next film, it looks like he’s heading to South America with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal, as Variety reports they’re in talks to star in Guadagnino’s Rio. The movie is about, ‘a financial reporter (Gyllenhaal) who travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend (Cumberbatch), only to get sucked into a plot to fake his friend’s death.’
It’s not clear when the movie will shoot, but the film will be looking for buyers at Cannes. As Guadagnino’s Suspiria isn’t released until 2017, don’t expect it until 2018 at least.
Since she became a mother, we haven’t seen quite as much of Julia Roberts as we once did. However, she’s now picked a new project she plans to star in, as 
The most successful short film collection in the world is returning at the end of the month for its 16th selection of gay treats. As always there’s a great and eclectic selection of gay-themed shorts. You can find out more about what shorts are on the disc and watch the trailer below.
Sometimes you don’t need to take long to tell an interesting story. That’s certainly true of Ecstasy, which is only four-minutes long, but certainly leaves the viewer with a few things to ponder. It doesn’t hurt either that it’s a well made movie with some good visuals.
There is a still a fear in Hollywood of getting typecast for playing gay, and that if you take more than one or two gay roles, you’ll be in a career cul-de-sac. It’s the same fear that stops a lot of famous folk from coming out – that suddenly you won’t be cast as straight characters (which of course is most roles).
We’re hoping to bring you a review of Tomcat as soon as we can, but as the film opened in the UK today exclusively at the ICA in London, we thought it would be well worth posting the trailer. It’s certainly a challenging film that starts off sweet and very sexy (and pretty explicit), before heading in some unexpected and rather dark places.
Over the past couple of months there have been horrifying reports about what is going on in Chechnya, where a purge is happening of gay men, with suggestions of the first concentration camps in Europe since the Second World War, when gay men are imprisoned and tortured, apparently to get them to name other gay people. Most recently it’s been said at least 30 people have been killed, either by the authorities or by being outed to their families and the police suggesting the family ‘take care’ of it. This included reports over the weekend of a teenage boy being thrown from a ninth floor balcony by his uncle (who was following the wishes of other family members) after being outed to them by the authorities.
It’s nine years since Guillermo Del Toro and Ron Perlman last brought us a Hellboy movie, with The Golden Army. Since then they’ve both talked about the possibility of a third outing. While it always seemed like an outside bet, it was only a few months ago they Perlman seemed to extinguish all hope.
Synopsis: ‘THE FREEDOM TO MARRY traces the marriage equality movement’s historic progress through the four decades of work by Evan Wolfson, the architect of the movement (who is the founder and president of Freedom to Marry), and pioneering civil rights attorney Mary Bonauto, who argued many of the key cases, including the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
Moonlight hasn’t doesn’t winning awards yet, as last night at the MTV Movie Awards, it picked up Best Kiss for the smooch between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome as the teenage versions of Chiron and Kevin. Of course the scene in question on the beach involved a bit more than just a kiss, but it was for the lip locking that they got their gong.