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

Douglas Booth Thanks Fans For Their Support Of Romeo & Juliet (Plus a new trailer)

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Many people have looked at Douglas Booth’s sexy eyes and high cheekbones and thought, ‘Yep, I’m in love’. Well, it turns out he loves you back, as he’s made the special video you can watch above, where he thanks fans and sites that have supported his new movie, Romeo and Juliet, which is out on Friday (October 11th).

There’s also a new trailer for the fresh take on Shakespeare’s classic below.

Booth plays Romeo with Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet, retelling the tragic love story of two young people who fall in love but must keep it secret due to a war going on between their families. Ed Westwick, Damian Lewis, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stellan Skarsgard and Paul Giamatti also star.

And looking at Booth, we can suddenly see why Juliet falls instantly in love with Romeo.

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Take Your First Look At More Scenes From A Gay Marriage With A Making Of Video

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More Scenes From A Gay Marriage, the follow-up to last year’s gay-themed hit, Scenes From A Gay Marriage, has recently finished shooting. Now we have the evidence of that, as director/star Mat Riddlehoover has sent over the first look at the film with a making of. The film stars Jared Allman, Charlie David, Thashana McQuiston, Matt Riddlehoover, and Rodiney Santiago.

The release of the video coincides with the launch of an IndieGoGo campaign to raise post-production funds for the film. The film has already raised the initial $5,000 target, but every penny given will be used to improve the film, and as always there’s a great selection of goodies on offer to those who pledge funds.

And if you need any more evidence of why you should give money to ensure we all get to see as much of this movie as possible, take a look at the images of Jared Allman, Rodiney Santiago and Matt Riddlehoover below. [Read more…]

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New Clip Of Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan In Kill Your Darlings Emerges

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After months of waiting, it’s not too long before we’ll all get to see Daniel Radcliffe as gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, with the US release set for October 16th and the UK release recently shifted to December 6th.

Now a new clip from the film has emerged (via Out), showing off the chemistry between Radcliffe and Dan DeHaan, who plays Lucien Carr’s the object of Radcliffe’s affection in the movie. Take a look above.

Based on a true story, Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers. You can watch the trailer here. [Read more…]

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Apropos Of Nothing: Dutch Gay Rugby Team Get Out Their Tackles In The Making Of Their Nude Calendar

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In the olden days, calendars had pictures of kittens and flowers on them, but in the 21st Century it seems it compulsory for them to show off plenty of flesh. While it used to be the women of Pirelli and old ladies from WI (aka the Calendar Girls) who took off their kit so we’d know what day it was in the year to come, more recently an increasing amount of men have joined the ranks.

In the last few days we’ve featured the making of the latest Dieux du Stade calendar and the sexy shirtless Men In The Alps, and today it’s the turn of the Dutch gay rugby team, the Amsterdam Lowlanders. (And come back tomorrow for homoerotic orthodox priests – yes, really0.

As we’ve come to expect to promote the calendar a making of video has been released, which does its best to almost show us the full monty while next quite doing it. There’s plenty of buff blokes though, all hoping to raise cash to get to the Bingham Cup in Sydney, Australia, so take a look below and head here to buy the calendar. [Read more…]

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Glee’s Dot-Marie Jones (aka Coach Bieste) Gets Engaged To Her Longtime Girlfriend!

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Dot-Marie-Jones-Bridgett-CasteenDot-Marie Jones had gained a lot of fans as Glee’s Coach Bieste, the football coach with a fearsome reputation but who’s actually a bit of a softy and wishes she could find love. Well, in real life she has found happiness, and now she’s all set to seal it legally, as Dot Marie has proposed to longtime girlfriend, Bridgett Casteen.

Better than that, Bridgett accepted! And just to top the whole thing off, the proposal took place in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle last Friday during Gay Days at Disneyland!

Jones told media who were covering Gay Days, “It’s the happiest day of my life. I never thought I’d find somebody that is so loving and kind.”

Congratulation and we wish them both the best!

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Win A Behind The Candelabra DVD & Poster!

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behind-the-candelabra-dvd-coverIt’s the biggest gay-themed film of the year, and now Behind The Candelabra is set for its UK DVD & Blu-ray release on October 14th. We’ve teamed up with eOne for a great comp to celebrate the release. If you’re one of the lucky winners, you’ll get one of three sets of Behind The Candelabra on DVD, plus a poster for the movie, a cake topper and a book by Liberace’s lover, Scott Thorson (played by Matt Damon in the film), ‘Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace’!

Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace – pianist and flamboyant star of stage and television. Synonymous with showmanship and extravagance, he lit up every stage he performed on, gaining millions of fans across the globe.

From Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh, Behind the Candelabra is the outrageous and gloriously entertaining true story of Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his secret love affair with the young and handsome Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) – an intense rollercoaster ride of hedonistic fun, flamboyance and excess.

If you’d like to try and win one of the three sets of a Behind The Candelabra DVD, poster, cake topper, and Scott Thorson’s book that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on October 21st 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Gravity Breaks October Records At The US Box Office

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gravity-poster1There’s been plenty of interest in Gravity, but few expected it to do as well as it has on its opening weekend in the US. It took an impressive $55.5 million, a new record for October, outdoing the previous best, 2011’s Paranormal Activity 3.

Interestingly it’s also the best opening for both George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. With critics and audiences raving, it should continue to do well over the coming weeks, making it a bona fide mega-hit. Some even suggest it could make a decent awards runs this winter, which is very unusual for a sci-fi movie.

Not all the new movies did as well, as Runner Runner bombed with just $7.6 million. Even the combined star power of Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck couldn’t draw audiences out, partly because the marketing failed to make it clear what the movie is about. It also seems viewers didn’t think much of it, suggesting it’s unlikely to have much staying power either.

The only other new entry was Pulling Strings, which took $2.5 million to land in ninth place. It’s the second movie in the last month aimed at Hispanic audiences that’s hit the top 10, which is impressive as usually they’re barely noticed at the box office. The other film, Instructions Not Included, is now the highest grossing Spanish-language film ever at the US box office, with $41.2 million. Pulling Strings has little chance of besting that, but it’s still doing well.

Take a look at the US box office top 10 for the weekend of October 4th-7th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Gravity $55.5 $55,5
2 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 $21.5 $60.5
3 Runner Runner $7.6 $7.6
4 Prisoners $5.7 $47.8
5 Rush $4.4 $18.0
6 Don Jon $4.1 $16.0
7 Baggage Claim $4.1 $15.1
8 Insidious Chapter 2 $3.8 $74.7
9 Pulling Strings $2.5 $2.5
10 Enough Said $2.1 $5.3
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Five Dances Star Ryan Steele Makes A Sexy #sharethemattress Video (in his underwear, of course)

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Last week we posted a #sharethemattress vid featuring young dancers Matt Baker, Brandon Cournay, and Kile Hotchkiss. Now we’ve got another, this one showcasing Ryan Steele, who stars in the upcoming gay-themed movie, Five Dances – and as with the earlier video, there’s plenty of dancing in underpants.

The #sharethemattress videos have been released to promote the 10th anniversary season of the Keigwin + Company New York dance troupe.We have to say it’s a very effective way of doing that, but if you go and see the dancers on stage and they’re not half naked and jumping around on a bed, a lot of the audience will be disappointed.

Five Dances will be out on DVD in the UK on October 28th and is in select US cinemas now.

Take a look at the new #sharethemattress vid and a few images from the shoot (via Out) below. [Read more…]

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Win The B-Movie Silliness Of Sharknado On DVD!

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sharknado-dvd-cover-largeThere’s been a huge amount of buzz about Sharknado, mainly based on its ridiculous shark-filled tornados premise. Now you can see what the fuss is all about as the film is out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on October 7th. And we’ve got two copies to give away in this comp!

When a freak tornado swamps Los Angeles, thousands of man-eating sharks are sucked into the swirling vortex, terrorizing the waterlogged populace and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin (Ian Ziering) sets out with his friends Baz (Jaason Simmons) and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April (Tara Reid) and teenage daughter Claudia from the sharks raining down from the skies. With nature’s deadliest killer ruling sea, land, and air, they soon realise that the best chance they have to survive the deadly shark-infested maelstrom is to find a way to destroy it themselves.

If you’d like to try and win one of the two copies of Sharknado 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 October 19th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Epic (Blu-ray)

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I have to admit that the trailers for Epic left me cold. The title seemed random, the story silly and the whole thing felt like an attempt to cash in on Avatar for the family audience. Well, there is a little of the eco theme and visual style of Avatar in there, but I have to say how surprised I was by the film, which is far more entertaining than I’d expected (even if it is a bit silly).

In the film the forests are full of two-inch tall creatures, split between the good, peace loving Treemen and their allies, and the evil Boggans, who want to destroy everything and turn the forest into rot. An eccentric human scientist believes in these creatures, but his singular obsession has left him without a wife and estranged from his daughter, M.K. (Amanda Seyfried). [Read more…]

Glee – Season 4 (Blu-ray)

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It’s all change in the world of Glee. Many of the main characters have graduated, so Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michele) have headed off to New York, initially Finn (Cory Monteith) is in the army, while others have headed off to various other places.

That means there’s space for some new Glee Club kids at McKinley High, while a few of the old faces are still waiting to graduate. Meanwhile Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma’s (Jayma Mays) relationship is at a crossroads and most shockingly of all for fans of Klaine, Kurt and Blaine’s (Darren Criss) love may not be able to withstand the distance between them! [Read more…]

Much Ado About Nothing (2013) (DVD)

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If you were in post-production on a movie that wasn’t just the biggest film of your career but one of the most ambitious franchise tie-ups ever attempted, you’d think you’d just concentrate on that. However while Joss Whedon was completing The Avengers, he also managed to find time to shoot a low-budget, black and white version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, set in modern-day California. The man sure likes to work. [Read more…]