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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

The Normal Heart (TV Review)

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In the last few years there seems to have been a renewed interest in the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. There have been documentaries, films and books, as well as major re-stagings of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. The reason for this is probably twofold.

Firstly there is a whole generation of LGBT people who weren’t even born when AIDS first emerged, many of whom know little about it. Even if they do know about it, they often treat it like something from the dim and distant past that has nothing to do with them (as I’ve said before, the fact gay-history isn’t taught in schools tends to make many people, including many gay people, think there isn’t one or that it isn’t important). Secondly, those who survived the emergence of ‘gay cancer’ are now getting older (Kramer is now 78) and so it’s not surprising that they should want their stories recorded to ensure that it’s those who lived through it who control the narrative. [Read more…]

Crush Of The Day: Russell Tovey Gives Us A Look At His Post-Gym Shirtlessness

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russell-tovey-gym-picSometimes there seems to be two Russell Toveys. One of them is a little shy, introverted and says things like ‘I’ve got ratty curly hair. I’ve got sticky-out ears. I‘ve got a little troll nose. I’m like a little pale street urchin. I’m lucky that I’ve sort of aged well into my face. I don’t think people are repelled by me. But one never sees how other people see you in a mirror at all — ever.’

The other Russell is bit more exhibitionist and certainly not afraid to show of his body, whether it was onstage a few months ago, humping Jonathan Groff in Looking, or by posting shirtless gym-selfies like the one above that he put on Instagram, after he’d had a bit of a workout at the end of a trip to Sydney.

Personally, I quite like both of them, especially as he comes across as if you could happily take him to meet your mom, but then later on once the bedroom door is closed…

We’ll also be seeing more of him in the second season of Looking as he’s been promoted to being a season regular. Perhaps he’ll bring along the other hottie in the pic as well as we wouldn’t mind seeing more of him as well.

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What’s The T? Trailer – Exploring the lives of five transgender women

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It’s been a good week for the transgender community, helped enormously by Laverne Cox making the cover of Time magazine. It’s a good opportunity then to watch the official trailer for the documentary What’s The T?, which you can see right here.

The doc, “explores the challenges, successes and lives of five transgender women”. The trailer suggests it’s going to be a fascinating look at these women and the challenges they face in the modern world. The film has had a very successful run at film festivals around the world.

If you’re in the US, you can watch the full documentary on Hulu from June 24th, but unfortunately it’s not clear when those in the rest of the world might get to see it. Hopefully it won’t be too long. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. [Read more…]

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Apropos Of Nothing: Two Guys One Pup Video Makes Us Confused & A Little Horny

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two-guys-one-pupI have absolutely no idea what’s supposed to be going on in the short video above, so I’ve had to watch it over and over and over again to try and work it out.

The ‘Two Guys One Pup‘ title and Doge-inspired ‘Such Fashion’ subheading suggests it’s a sort of meeting on memes, but the actual video itself is just a tiny dog with two hot, shirtless models who barely look like actual real, people. They’re more like what a teenager might doodle as being their ideal guy.

I’m betting someone had five minutes to think up the scenario for a fashion video and they were very hungover.

Or perhaps we can believe what the video says it’s about, which is: ‘Man’s best friend or man’s best mirror? Two Guys, One Pup extrapolates the Lacanian recognition of self to this normally-pejorative “friend.” In the Pup’s eyes, one can catch a fleeting glimpse of one’s soul, and indeed, a joyful confirmation of a co-evolutionary bond stretching back eons.’

I’m presuming though that it’s actually meant to be a satirical riff on the more pretentious aspects of many fashion films, but who knows?

I like the shirtless guys though, philistines that I am! [Read more…]

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Crush Of The Day: Orange Is The New Black’s Matt McGorry Strips Down For A Magic Mike 2 Audition

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matt-mcgorry-magic-mike-2If you want to be in a Magic Mike movie, you better not mind taking your clothes off. Orange Is The New Black’s sexy Matt McGorry has been trying to prove he’s got what it takes by stripping down for an audition.

Well, kind of. He’s actually taking part in a College Humor skit, but it does involve him having to take his clothes off repeatedly! We’re certainly not going to complain about that.

While this isn’t a serious audition, maybe Channing Tatum and co. will see it and give him a proper shot, as we reckon he’d make a good addition to the troupe when shooting begins on Magic Mike 2 this summer.

Take a look at how every scene in Magic Mike 2 will lead to someone taking their shirt off below. [Read more…]

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The Wonderful Laverne Cox Becomes The First Trans Person To Make The Cover Of Time

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laverne-cox-time-magazineEarlier this year there was a bit of controversy when Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox was given a massive thumbs up by nearly topping the Time 100 Reader Poll. However when the actual list of the 100 most influential people of the year was published by Time magazine – as decided by the editors – Cox was nowhere to be seen.

Many people were pretty upset, but now Time has decided that better than putting Cox somewhere into an arbitrary list is to make her the first transgender person ever on the cover of the magazine, accompanying an article and interview about the ‘Transgender Tipping Point’.

The interview goes deep into Cox’s journey, such as the fact that in her youth she wasn’t allowed to learn ballet, because “ballet was too gay.”

She also looks back on her childhood when she knew she wanted to be a girl, but it wasn’t until third grade that she realised she wouldn’t just somehow become one simply because that’s how she felt inside. By the time she was in sixth grade she tried to kill herself.

Luckily as she reached her teens could start exploring androgyny and her creativity that she began to find a way through.

However as she notes, there’s still a long way to go for trans people until there is proper acceptance, with part of the problem being that the stories of transgender people are often filtered through non-trans media that doesn’t really have much understanding of what it’s talking about. However with more high-profile people such as Cox and Janet Mock, as well as the fact social media has allowed trans people a voice it’s been difficult for them to get before, they are now starting to own their own stories and control them.

It is an article that’s important not just because it puts a trans person on the cover of Time, but also because the article is about Cox’s internal, emotional life and experience of being trans, not about hormones, surgery, genitals and the other things that have a tendency to distance people from thinking of trans people simply as human beings.

The cover has already sparked a lot of comment, and also saw Time editor Nancy Gibbs and GLAAD’s Tiq Milan sitting down with Ronan Farrow on MSNBC to talk about it, which you can see below.

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Caught Inside Short Documentary – Looking at the taboo of being a gay surfer

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What’s it like to be in the ‘manly’ world of surfing, but to be gay? Despite the stereotype of it surfing being filled with chilled out dude, the short documentary Caught Inside suggests it’s still a place where homosexuality is rarely spoken about.

The seven-minute doc follows ‘ three gay surfers who have all recently come out in a sub-culture where they say homosexuality is still a taboo.’

It’s an interesting subject and one that should be more fully explored in the upcoming Out In The Lineup, which completed a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of last year. That doc follows two gay surfers as they travel the world finding the best waves.

Take a look at Caught Inside above. [Read more…]

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Nathan’s Lane’s Gay-Themed Play The Nance Will Screen At US Cinemas Nationwide

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Last year Nathan Lane starred in the Lincoln Center Theater’s production of out playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s play The Nance. Now many of those who couldn’t make it to New York will get a chance to see it as a filmed version is set to play at US cinemas beginning June 23rd.

It should screen in more than 300 movie theatres in an exclusive limited engagement courtesy of Lincoln Center and cinema advertising company Screenvision.

The Advocate says on the play, ‘Lane, a two-time Tony Award winner, stars as Chauncey Miles, a famous “nance,” which is an outrageously effeminate stock burlesque character. The play is set in 1930s New York, where the mayor has started cracking down on homosexual “deviants.” The cast, which features Jonny Orsini as Chauncey’s younger lover, also includes Jenni Barber, Andréa Burns, Cady Huffman, Mylinda Hull, Geoffrey Allen Murphy, and Lewis J. Stadlen.’

“Through this partnership with Lincoln Center, we are thrilled to offer moviegoers nationwide the chance to see one of the most original plays with a stellar cast of complex and enthralling characters,” says Screenvision’s Darryl Schaffer “We are pleased that we can offer it to our exhibitor partners and take part in extending the reach of such a great work of art.”

You can find out more about where it will be screening by clicking here. [Read more…]

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Harry Hamlin Says Playing Gay In 1982’s Making Love Helped End His Movie Career

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making-love-posterWith 1981’s Clash Of The Titans, it looked like Harry Hamlin was destined for the A-List. However he only had two more cinema roles before getting sucked back into the world of TV movies of the week. It wasn’t until he scored a major role in the TV show LA Law that he saw real success again.

So what happened? Well, according to Harry, it’s that the movie he made directly after Clash, 1982’s Making Love, saw him playing a gay man – and after that the phone stopped ringing.

While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Hamlin says of Making Love, “It was way before its time…It was something that I would repeat. I would do it again today, even though there was a ruffle in my career after that, for sure.”

It was an interesting choice for a young actor at the time, as few mainstream actors would ever have accepted a gay role. Indeed, Hamlin says, ‘a lot of people turned it down’, however his agemt through he could get away with it because he was involved in a high-profile relationship with actress Ursula Andress at the time, with whom he had a son, so the thought was that nobody would think he was really gay.

However the result was that he didn’t work in features again. He’s upbeat about it though, saying “What it did is it created a transition for me between feature film to television.”

LA Law made Hamlin a household name and thanks to that role he was voted People’s Sexiest Man Alive. More recently he’s been seen in recurring roles in the likes of Shameless and Mad Men.

Making Love is about a young doctor and his wife, whose relationship is challenged by the arrival of Hamlin’s swinging artist. The Doc can’t deny his attraction to Hamlin, and soon they embark on an affair.

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Win The Zac Efron Starrer That Awkward Moment On DVD!

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That-Awkward-Moment-DVD-coverReleased on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital Download on 2nd June, That Awkward Moment follows the story of three best friends in the Big Apple finding themselves at that confusing moment in every relationship when you have to decide “So…where is this going?”

The boys are going to have to juggle their single lives with their romantic entanglements and it’s going to get awkward when they realise that the line between casual dating and a serious relationship is more difficult than they thought…

Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan star.

Big Gay Picture Show has 3 copies of the DVD to give away. If you’d like to try and win, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on June 13th 2014, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Left Behind Trailer – God doesn’t like Nicolas Cage enough to Rapture him

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Many were surprised when a bigger budget remake of Left Behind was announced. While Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s novel series and the early 2000s films adaptations have a following, it’s mainly amongst a particular section of the American religious right who are big into ‘The Rapture’.

Nevertheless they signed up the likes of Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray and Lea Thompson for the movie, and now the trailer has arrive.

The story follows a group trying to survive in the aftermath of the Rapture, which has seen all the true Christians being spirited up to heaven, leaving everyone else behind to deal with the end of days. Cage is plays Ray Steele, a neglectful dad and pilot who finds God too late and so forms the Tribulation Force to cope with the coming carnage.=

Paul Lalonde, who wrote the original Left Behind in 2001, and John Patus, who wrote the last instalment of the earlier film series, Left Behind: World at War, came up with the screenplay. Stun legend Vic Armstrong directs.

From the trailer is seems the overly pious tone of the earlier movies has been toned down for this version, instead trying to sell it as more of a mainstream action movie with a religion bent. [Read more…]

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New The Green Inferno Trailer – Fresh look at Eli Roth’s jungle cannibal movie

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Eli Roth hasn’t directed a movie since 2007′s Hostel: Part II, as he’s spent most of his time either producing or starring in other people’s films. However now he’s coming back with The Green Inferno.

Now a new trailer ahs arrived ahead of the movie’s autumn release.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Idealistic Justine (Lorenza Izzo) joins a group of campus radicals on a mission to disrupt the illegal clear-cutting of a Peruvian jungle, which is endangering the tranquil lives of an isolated Amazonian tribe. Armed with good intentions and the power of their cellphone cameras, the group flies to Peru and seemingly succeeds in their mission. But the activists’ celebration quickly turns to tragedy when their plane crashes in the jungle — and they find themselves on the dinner menu of the very people they were trying to protect.’

If you like cannibal movies, it looks like you’re in for a treat. If you’re into political correctness you’ll probably have to look elsewhere. [Read more…]

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