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

Dwayne Johnson Gets Shirtless In New Hercules Photos

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In early 2014, it’s Kellan Lutz who’s been Hercules, but come summer we’ve got another take on the legend, with Dwayne Johnson taking on the role and Brett Ratner directing. Now USA Today has released a couple of stills from the movie, which show The Rock in action mode.

Is it just us, or does the shirtless one above look like it could have fallen out of a gay porn vid. You just need another guy stood behind him.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Everyone knows the legend of Hercules and his twelve labors. Our story begins after the labors, and after the legend…

‘Haunted by a sin from his past, Hercules has become a mercenary. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies. But when the benevolent ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules’ help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail… he must again become the hero he once was… he must embrace his own myth… he must be Hercules.’

Joseph Fiennes, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Rebecca Ferguson, Aksel Hennie and John Hurt co-star. It’ll be in cinemas this July (and a trailer is promised soon).

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Saving Mr. Banks (Blu-ray)

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Cor blimey Mary Poppins! It’s 50 years since the Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke starrer arrived in cinemas, won the Best Picture Oscar and became one of the greatest family classics ever. However as Saving Mr. Banks shows, Disney’s attempt to get the character on the screen started a long time before the movies 1964 debut, as the character’s creator, PL Travers, wasn’t keen on selling the screen rights. [Read more…]

Don Jon (Blu-ray)

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his writing and directing debut with Don Jon and also takes the lead role – so he was certainly busy. You have to wonder whether he thought his previous movies didn’t have enough sex scenes, so he wrote himself a movie where he got loads of them, and where he also had the chance to buff up to show off a very impressive physique. (I’m sure those weren’t his motivations though). [Read more…]

Free Birds (Blu-ray)

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There’s always an issue with movies about things such as American Football and Thanksgiving. While you can see why they’d be popular in the US, they don’t always travel well, as most other countries don’t have those traditions. That’s particularly true with family films, as many youngsters won’t even know what Thanksgiving is.

Free Birds seems to have realised this though, so that while non-US youngsters won’t get the nuance of the founding fathers and why turkeys are the preferred meal, it does at least make sure it sets out the basics so they won’t be completely lost. [Read more…]

Win The Gay-Themed Thriller Lose Your Head On DVD!

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Lose-Your-Head-dvd-coverLose Your Head arrives on DVD in the UK on March 24th 2014, thanks to TLA Releasing. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies of the gay-themed thriller in this competition.

An official selection for the 2013 Berlin Film Festival, Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller  inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night of club hopping.  Like thousands of other young tourists, Luis from Madrid arrives in Berlin to spend a carefree Summer weekend. After a break-up, Berlin’s infamous club scene seems the ideal place to party the pain away, make new friends  and fall in love again. However, Luis resemblance to a young Greek student who had gone missing a few weeks ago gets him involved in a series of mysterious events.  And what starts out like a romantic adventure turns into a desperate chase through the streets of Berlin, as Luis gets lost between paranoia and reality.

If you’d like to try and win one of the three copies of Lose Your Head 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 April 5th 2014, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Gays: The Series – Episodes 3 & 4 of the Girls homage web series premiere

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Calling your show ‘Gays: The Series’ is a slightly bold move, but it’s almost surprising someone hasn’t done it before. The one that’s done it is a web series about friends in New York. A couple of months ago the first two episodes were released, and now they’ve been followed by episodes three and four, with premiered on March 16th.

And you can watch all the episodes so far below!

The release has been deliberately chosen to coincide with the US launch of a new series of HBO’s Girls, although the makers are keen to point out that they hope Gays will reach a similar, if broader, crowd. Though the lead characters can be defined as gay, ‘the series aims to transcend labels, rather conveying the struggles that any group 20-something friends faces when living and working in NYC. Episodes three and four take us deeper into the lives of this relatable, flawed and funny group.’

“I wanted to create a show that followed the lives of four men who happened to be gay, but the show was actually about the bigger universal aspects of life that all of us people deal with: love, work problems, friendship, family, etc.,“ remarks Peter William Dunn, the native New Yorker who conceived and penned GAYS. “The most fascinating thing with people is that we’re all so different, yet we’re all so shockingly the same That’s what I hope viewers will take away from the show, the realization that the LGBT characters in GAYS are relatable, real and emotionally accessible to everyone, no matter sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.”

You can find out more over on the show’s website, after watching the episodes below. [Read more…]

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Project: Phoenix Trailer – Former gay porn stars, Catwoman & Sherilyn Fenn do a zombie web series

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Project: Phoenix looks like an interesting confection, which you can see above in the zombie web series’ trailer. Just the site of Twin Peaks Sherilyn Fenn is enough to get our attention, but it looks like it’ll have more to offer.

As gay porn director and Project: Phoenix editor Jasun Mark tells JoeMyGod, ‘Project: Phoenix which is a sort of zombie/military sci-fi web series that stars a bunch of pretty big names including former Catwoman Lee Meriwether, gay Australian rugby star Ian Roberts, Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks and even a small role played by former gay porn star Jeremy Bilding (who later became straight porn star Ryan Driller.) It’s written and directed by gay actor/writer Chad Darnell who also did Birthday Cake.’

The series premieres April 20th over at projectphoenix.tv. [Read more…]

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Travis Mathew’s Gay-Themed In Their Room: Berlin Is Online For Free, But Only For A Limited Time

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Travis Mathews has been getting a fair amount of attention for his movie I Want Your Love and his collaboration with James Franco, Interior Leather Bar. However for several years he’s been making In Their Room shorts.

He started off with In Their Room: San Francisco in 2009, which was initially just going to be a series of interviews with gay people in their bedrooms talking about their live, but as the project continued it took on a more intimate, sexual dimension. That was followed by 2011’s In Their Room: Berlin, which looked at the gay experience amongst a group of German guys, and most recently In Their Room: London (which Mathews shot while in the UK for a film festival).

While they’ve screened at fests and few of the segments have shown up online, due to their mix of documentary and explicit sexuality it’s been difficult to get them proper distribution. However now porn company NakedSword has stepped forward and put In Their Room: Berlin online for free at www.iwantyourlovethemovie.com – but only until March 30th, after which it will be behind the paywall in the member’s area of the NakedSword site.

NakedSword was the company that backed Mathews I Want Your Love short and followed that up by helping the movie version get made, as no one else was interested in the way he wanted to look at a more realistic depiction of gay sexuality. What the director does is certainly not porn, but because it isn’t afraid to be erotic, it’s not always been easy for him to get backing. That is starting to change though.

If you want to take a look at the 60 minutes of In Their Room: Berlin, go watch while it’s free!

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Divergent’s Theo James Hopes To See A Gay Superhero, & Is His Film A Bisexual Allegory?

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Theo-JamesDivergent is currently taking the US box office by storm and making a star of Theo James. The actor has been chatting with The Advocate and suggesting that the movie the movie could be a bisexual allegory, and also that he hopes to see a gay superhero on-screen soon.

The movie is about a society where young people are sorted into groups based on their personality traits – however if they fit into more than one category they are ‘divergent’ and considered a threat to the social order. It could certainly be seen as a bisexual allegory, while the idea of those not fitting in being shunned relates to most LGBT people.

James agrees, saying “Yeah,  that’s an interesting parallel to make. I hadn’t connected those dots myself, but there’s definitely truth in there.”

He adds, “The five factions represent the basic levels of conformity and a divergent fits into not one of them, but multiple. Yeah, I can see it. That’s interesting.”

Theo would also be interested in seeing a gay superhero on-screen, but he’s aware that it might be a while until Hollywood feels the same. “It’s very hard to tell,” he says of when it might happen. “Because today there are great shows like Looking, poignant pieces of work that revolve around a central cast of characters that happen to be gay. But I remember when Queer as Folk came out and thinking, ‘Things are changing. Maybe there will be more [shows like this]’. And then suddenly there was a drought. Hopefully the day [we have a gay action hero] isn’t far away.”

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Night Moves Trailer – Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard & Dakota Fanning turn eco-terrorist

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Night Moves got some good review at the Toronto and Venice film festivals last year, even if some weren’t sure about the ending. Now it’s moving towards release and a trailer has shown up online, even if it’s one with French subtitles.

The story centres on three extreme environmentalist who plan on blowing up a dam. Jesse Eisenberg is  the leader of the trio, with Dakota Fanning as a rich young woman who finances the operation. Peter Sarsgaard is the bomb maker.

A May 30th US releases is set, while those in the UK aren’t likely to see it until the end of August. [Read more…]

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David James Kelly Writing Wolverine 3, With Hugh Jackman Likely To Return

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wolverine-review-slideJust a few days ago director James Mangold revealed that after 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, they’re already working on another standalone Wolverine movie. Since then Fox has moved fast to fill in the blanks, announcing that it’ll be in cinemas March 3rd, 2017 and Deadline adds that the studio has hired screenwriter David James Kelly to write the script.

What wasn’t clear when Mangold first mentioned Wolverine 3 was whether Hugh Jackman would be returning for this new movie. The actor has suggested several times that he planned to step away from his mutant character (at least for a while) following this year’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past – which marks the seventh film he’s played the role in (and it’s not known if he’ll also be in Apocalypse).

However Deadline claims that Jackman will be back, although it’s not clear if this is just a strong possibility or whether a contract is actually in the works.

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Jake McDorman In Talks For American Sniper

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jake-mcdormanJake McDorman is a face many will recognise from the likes of Greek, the US Shameless and Live Free Or Die Hard, often seeming like he was about to break big but not yet getting there. Now he’s in talks for a big role, as he may join Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, starring alongside Bradley Cooper, Cory Hardrict and Sienna Miller are also attached.

The action movie is based on the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Cooper), a Texas native who racked up the most confirmed sniper kills of anyone in US military history. Tragically though, he was killed by a fellow veteran at a shooting range last February (it’s not clear if that will be included in the movie).

If he signs on, McDorman will be Ryan ‘Biggles’ Job, who was the sniper’s colleague during his time in the military. Several real Navy SEALS are also expected to co-star in the film, including Kyle’s really life friend, Kevin ‘Dauber’ Lacz.

Clint Eastwood is directing from a script provided by Jason Hall. Filming will start next month in Morocco.

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