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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

Office Christmas Party Trailer – Jennifer Aniston & Jason Bateman lead a star-studded festive film

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office-christmas-partyOffice Christmas Party is a bit of a lazy title for a movie, but at least it should do exactly what it says on the tin. However, to give it a bit of a boost they’ve lined up a good cast, led by Horrible Bosses and The Switch co-stars Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston, as well as Olivia Munn, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Jillian Bell, T.J. Miller and Kate McKinnon.

As you might have suspected from the title, the movie is about an office party gone awry. Aniston plays an uptight CEO who threatens to shut down the branch her brother (Bateman) manages, He decided the best way to fight back is to throw an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client. However, his plan to save the day quickly goes wrong when the party gets massively out of hand.

Blades of Glory’s Will Speck and Josh Gordon direct from a script by Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky and Laura Solon. Unsurprisingly it’ll be hitting cinemas just before Christmas. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Win The Gay-Themed Confessions On DVD!

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confessions-dvd-coverThe sexy, gay-themed, ensemble film Confessions is out on DVD in the UK now courtesy of TLA Releasing. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies in this competition!

Take a peak under the surface of any gay man, and who knows what you’ll find?  Confessions, an anthology of disclosures from the recesses of the gay male psyche, goes some way to answer that very question.  Spanning themes that are dark, sexy, intense, funny, romantic and shocking, Confessions turns a spotlight on characters you don’t often get to see- but will not want to turn away from.

You can watch the trailer here

To be in with a chance of winning Confessions on DVD that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on August 8th, 2016, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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Disposable Teens: Episode 8 – The web series about a gay homeless teen deals with male sexual assault

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disposable-teens-ep8The web series Disposable Teens has taken on some weighty issues across it previous three episodes, and that certainly continues with Episode 8. It deals with the extremely serious issue of male victim sexual assault and date rape, as once more Austin gets into a situation he didn’t expect and doesn’t deserve.

The show is about a gay teenager named Austin (Chris Jehnert) who is forced to run from his home after coming out of the closet. Last season he ended up becoming prey to a charismatic pornographer named Madison (Lucio Nieto). This season he has found his way into the club scene with the help of a cute drug dealer named Houston (Tyler Begnoche) and a charming club promoter named Orlando (Evan Reed). However, there are dangers out there.

The show was inspired by director Brian Pelletier’s own experiences as a young, gay teen runaway, and is one of the few shows to look at the issues homeless LGBT people face. It’s a topic that should get more attention, as LGBT youth are disproportionately affected by homelessness.

You can take a look at Episodes 8 and if you need to catch up, click here. [Read more…]

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McTucky Fried High S2 Ep 5 – The LGBTQ cartoon takes on religious evangelism

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mctucky-s2-ep5The school full of animated food is back with the fifth episode of Season 2. As the makers state, ‘McTucky Fried High stands out as one of the only LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) animated cartoons to date. Season 2 uses humor to tackle religion, racism, feminism, and STI’s while foregrounding and affirming LGBTQ characters and experiences. McTucky Fried High is setting the tone for specifically LGBTQ characters and story lines in media by being unapologetically queer, talking about relevant issues young people face and doing so with humor and fun! ‘

In the new episode, n the ongoing race to convert students into Cheesus followers, Sheri Cone (Kristen King) quickly surpass traditional methods of evangelism and reveals her dark past with haunting tale of Cheesy McCheesy Bear. Will the students of McTucky survive Sheri’s efforts? More importantly will Cheesus answer Sheri’s self serving prayers?

Take a look at McTucky Fried High’s Season 2, click here, and head here for Season 1. Enjoy! [Read more…]

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T2 Teaser Trailer – Take a look at the long awaited Trainspotting sequel

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T2-teaser-slideEver since the success on Trainspotting in 1996 we’ve been promised a sequel, although we’ve always known we’d have to wait until the actors were a older. Now it’s finally on its way and to get us excited we’ve got a teaser which recreates a classic scene from the first movie.

There’s not much info on the plot, but we do know it will reunite Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle are all back, as Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, with Danny Boyle once more directing. While Irvine Welsh wrote a follow-up novel, Filth, it’s not believed John Hodges script will be totally faithful to that story.

The film is currently due out in the UK on January January 27th. Take a look at the teaser below. [Read more…]

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Women He’s Undressed (US Cinema/DVD Review)

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Gillian Armstrong is best known for directing the likes of Charlotte Gray, Oscar & Lucinda and Little Women, but here she returns to the documentary arena for a film about Orry-Kelly. It’s not a name you’ll necessarily recognise, although you will probably know some of his work – Ingrid Bergman’s costumes in Casablanca, Marilyn Monroe’s frocks in Some Like It Hot, the western clothes in Oklahoma! and all manner of dresses for Bette Davis.

He won three Oscars (making him Australia’s most prolific Academy Award winner until fellow costume designer Catherine Martin picked up her third and fourth gongs for The Great Gatsby (2013)), and to many in the filmmaking community he’s a bit of a legend. He was also an alcoholic and he was gay, something he didn’t hide but didn’t publicly flaunt either. Rumours suggest he may have had an intimate relationship with Cary Grant when they roomed together shortly after they both arrived in the US, although that’s never been confirmed. [Read more…]

Confessions (DVD Review)

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Mark Bessenger directed one of the best gay-themed films we reviewed last year, The Last Straight Man, and now he’s back with something a little different and more unusual. Rather than being a straightforward movie with a single plot, it takes the forms of 10 ‘confessions’, where different men talk about all sorts of different issues and situations. In many respects it’s a series of short films, which vary from the creepy and unsettling to the comedic and somewhat surreal.

There’s a young man who has to find the bravery to tell his parents that he’s a puppet, despite the fact they think that puppets are disgusting and abnormal. We have a man who appears to have kidnapped someone and is holding him in his basement, who slowly undresses as he reveals what is going on and why. In another, a hot young guys talk about what he’s really looking for as he lies in the arms of another man just after the throes of passion have ended. And in perhaps the most interesting of all the vignettes, a man slowly shaves off his beard, with each look he tries on a new persona that allows him to explore the fact that despite being with a woman, he has strong desires for men. [Read more…]

Summertime (La Belle Saison) (US Cinema Review)

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It’s the early 1970s and Delphine (Izïa Higelin) is a young French woman working on her father’s farm. Her parents are keen to marry her off, but Delphine is secretly seeing a woman, which doesn’t last when her partner announces she’s marrying a man. Escaping the rural life, Delphine heads to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists, including Carole (Cécile De France).

Although Carole has a boyfriend, she and Delphine start to fall for one another, but their happiness is ruined when Delphine’s father has a stroke and she feels the need to go back to the farm to run it. Eventually Carole follows her, staying there as Delphine’s ‘friend’, but as people begin to realise the truth it causes an increasing amounts of problems. [Read more…]

Supergirl – Season 1 (Blu-ray Review)

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DC Comics may be having a slightly bumpy ride building a cinematic comic book universe, but it’s certainly having plenty of success on the small screen. Arrow was joined by The Flash, which last season was joined by Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow, all taking place within the same universe (and there’s also Gotham slightly off to one side).

As you may have noticed, Supergirl is the first of those that has centred around a female hero. She’s a character that hasn’t had much luck on the screen before, partly because there’s previously been a tendency to treat her like the pretty damsel in distress, even though she’s got lots of superpowers. This new series tries to reverse that, and early on spends a bit of time commenting on the potential sexist problems, from that fact she’s a Super ‘girl’ rather than ‘woman’, to journalists asking her whether she’s going to start a family. [Read more…]

10 Cloverfield Lane (DVD Review)

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Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is having a bad time. She’s just left her fiancé and is heading away from their apartment when she gets run off the road by another vehicle. Things get even worse when she wakes up to find she’s now locked in a concrete room with no windows, chained to the wall. She discovers Howard (John Goodman) has brought her into this underground bunker.

He says the world has been attacked, pretty much everyone except him and another survivor in the bunker, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), is dead, and the air outside is toxic. He says that she would be dead too if he hadn’t saved her. Michelle is understandably suspicious that Howard’s actually a madman who’s kidnapped her and is lying. As the trio start to live together in the bunker, Michelle begins to wonder whether, even if the outside is toxic, it’s actually a safer place to be than underground with the temperamental and possibly unhinged Howard. [Read more…]

New Doctor Strange Trailer – Benedict Cumberbatch may have made the weirdest Marvel movie yet

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DOCTOR-STRANGE-PAYOFF-POSTER-slideIf this trailer is anything to go by, Marvel is meeting Inception with Doctor Strange, and Benedict Cumberbatch is going to have a slightly odd American accent. It does look pretty cool – if strange – though.

Cumberbatch plays Stephen Vincent Strange, a former neurosurgeon who becomes the next Sorcerer Supreme and primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats. Tilda Swinton will play Strange’s mentor, the Ancient One, while Chiwetel Ejiofor will appear as Baron Mordo, who also studies magic under the Ancient One, before becoming Doctor Strange’s nemesis. Mads Mikelsen is also onboard to play one of the main villains, as you will see in the trailer, while Rachel McAdams is Christine Palmer.

Scott Derrickson is directing the movie. It’ll be in cinemas November 2016. [Read more…]

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The LEGO Batman Movie Comic-Con Trailer – Bruce Wayne gets his own brick-based film

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lego-batmanAfter the massive success of The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros. didn’t just put a sequel in the works, but also started planning films based on LEGO Batman and Ninjago. The first of those to arrive is The LEGO Batman Movie, which has just released a trailer to coincide with Comic-Con. It certainly looks like it’ll keep the fun tone of The LEGO Movie.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.’

What that doesn’t mention is the importance of him accidentally getting a ward, who becomes a rather different Robin than we’re used to. The film will be in cinemas early next year. [Read more…]

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