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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

Black Rock (DVD)

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Sarah (Kate Bosworth) tricks her quarrelling friends, Abby (Katie Aselton) and Lou (Lake Bell), into heading off for a bonding weekend on Black Rock – an isolated island where they spent time when they were younger. While they believe they’ll be alone, they’re surprised when three hunters, who are not too long back from Afghanistan, stumble across them. [Read more…]

Byzantium (DVD)

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Neil Jordan has always been interested in the supernatural, from the werewolves of The Company Of Wolves to the mermaids of Ondine. He also had great success with bloodsuckers in Interview With The Vampire. Now he returns to vamps for a very different movie, Byzantium.

Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her younger sister, Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan), are constantly moving around, and this time end up in a run-down English seaside town, where they are taken in by the gentle Noel (Daniel Mays). Clara is soon back to her old tricks of setting herself up as a brothel madam, while Eleanor attempts to once more settle into a new environment. [Read more…]

Bashment (DVD)

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JJ has dreams of making it big in the reggae dancehall scene, although that’s not going to be easy for a white boy from Bristol. After moving to London with his boyfriend, Orlando, JJ impresses with his skills at the Urban Slam Finals, showing up the current kings of the dancehall, The Ilford Maniacs, in the process.

Not long after JJ comes out on stage, the Maniacs launch a brutal attack on Orlando, leaving him severely injured and brain damaged. After the attackers are charged with the violent assault, the trial comes down to whether they were motivated by homophobia and anger that JJ had done so well at the competition, or whether they were provoked because they heard Orlando say the word ‘nigger’. [Read more…]

Win The Gay-Themed Documentary Les Invisibles On DVD!

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Les-Invisibles-DVD-coverThe documentary Les Invisibles, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, arrives on DVD in the UK on September 23rd via Peccadillo Pictures, and we’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies in this comp!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Men and women, born between the wars. They have nothing in common except their homosexuality, and their decision to live openly at a time when society rejected them. They’ve loved, struggled, desired, made love. Today they tell us about their pioneering lives, and how they navigated the desire to remain ordinary with the need to liberate themselves in order to thrive. They were fearless. From director Sebastian Lifshitz, this affecting documentary premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and is a touching and tender portrayal of liberation for a generation old and new.’

If you’d like to try and win one of the three copies of Les Invisibles 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 4th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Six Months For Six Weeks – Gay themed web series get musical

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There’s an increasing amount of cool looking web series arriving, and they’ve now been joined by the gay-themed Six Month For Six Weeks – a six part web miniseries by songwriter John Coons and filmmaker Alex Berry, about a relationship that’s got a time limit on it.

According to the makers, Six Months ‘tells the story of two twenty-something men in Portland, Maine, their six-week “relationship with an expiration date” and its aftermath, set against 2009’s “Question 1” same-sex marriage debate. Alternatively tender and satirical, it looks at the definitions and value we place on relationships in our changing world.’

It’s the brainchild of singer-songwriter John Coons; a semi-autobiographical one-man show built around original songs. As the video above suggests, it was originally a stage production, which has been made a little more filmic for the web. [Read more…]

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I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Music video from the gay-themed film Five Dances

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Five Dances is a beautiful looking movie. We first posted the trailer for it back in December 2012. However it’s only now that it’s heading for release, with screenings in the US starting October 4th, while a UK DVD release is set for October 28th.

Now a music video for a song from the film has arrived, showing off footage from the gay-themed dance film, as well as Scott Matthews’ tune, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, from his album, Unlearned. Take a look above.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘The classic tale of finding success and romance in the big city is given a contemporary, and unconventional, spin in Alan Brown’s new film, FIVE DANCES. Collaborating with internationally renowned choreographer Jonah Bokaer, writer-director Brown has taken five gifted New York dancers, and fashioned a story about Chip (Ryan Steele in his first film role), an extraordinarily talented 18 year-old recently arrived from Kansas who joins a small downtown modern dance company. In his first weeks of rehearsal, Chip is initiated into the rites of passage of a New York dancer’s life, where discipline and endless hard work, camaraderie and competitiveness, the fear of not being good enough, and the joy of getting it just right, inform every minute of every day.

‘Shooting in and around a Soho dance studio, Brown and his longtime cinematographer Derek McKane capture the exhilaration and emotional turmoil of a small dance company, and all of Chip’s poignant firsts—the forging of friendships, being chosen for the important solo, his first ever love affair—with the intimacy and immediacy of a documentary. The result, FIVE DANCES, is Brown’s most dynamic film.’ [Read more…]

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Jennifer Lopez To Receive Human Rights Campaign Ally For Equality Award

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jennifer-lopezEarlier this year, Whoopi Goldberg was honoured with the Human Rights Campaign Ally For Equality Award. Now the next recipient has been named. HRC has announced that Jennifer Lopez will receive the gong at their National Dinner on 5 October in Washington DC.

“Jennifer Lopez embodies the spirit of an ally to the LGBT community and we are thrilled to present her the Ally for Equality at our National Dinner in October,” said HRC president Chad Griffin. “We recognize Jennifer for her talent, style, compassion, philanthropy and generosity, but foremost for her public commitment to LGBT equality.”

The Ally for Equality award is given to allies outside the LGBT community who stand up on behalf of equality and try to improve the lives of gay people. J-Lo has been a very vocal supporter of the LGBT community, including raising money for HIV and AIDS research, as well as for anti-bullying and anti-violence services.

She’s also recently been an executive producer on The Fosters, a TV series about a lesbian couple who take in children who are in need of a home.

“Even facing pressure from anti-LGBT groups, Jennifer stands her ground as a strident equality supporter,” Griffin said. “Throughout her career, Jennifer Lopez has always stood for fairness, justice and equality, and that’s what being an ally is all about.”

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New Blue Is The Warmest Color Trailer – Take a look at the lesbian-themed Palm d’Or winner

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Blue Is The Warmest Color is definitely an intriguing film. It won the Palm d’Or, but garnered controversy over its graphic lesbian sex scenes. Even the film’s two main actresses have sometimes seemed to be in two minds about the movie – proud of its success but finding it incredibly difficult to ignore how tough it was to make.

An October US release is set, with the film coming to the UK in November.

Ahead of that, a new trailer has arrived – and as is the way with both foreign film and gay themed movies, there’s no dialogue (because apparently nobody would watch anything that wasn’t in English) and it’s unclear whether the characters are straight or not (because nobody would watch a movie about two women in love if it wasn’t purely about titillating straight men). If you can’t tell, we’re not desperately impressed with this promo, even if the images are pretty.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘At 15, Adele doesn’t question it: a girl goes out with boys. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself…’ Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopolis star in the movie, and it was a lengthy sex scene between the two that got people talking at Cannes [Read more…]

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About Last Night Trailer – Kevin Hart and Regina Hall star in the remake

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David Mamet’s play, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, got a loose adaptation as About Last Night – starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore – in 1986. Now it’s coming back with a largely African American cast, although it’s been suggested that this About Last Night will be closer to Mamet’s original.

Leslye Headland’s script follows two couples, one of whom seem perfectly suited for one another, but things go horribly wrong when they move in together. The other two are the squabbling best friends of the other couple who form their own bond. Michael Ealy, Joy Bryant, Kevin Hart, Regina Hall and Adam Rodriguez star.

Now a new trailer has arrived, ahead on the film’s planned February 2014 release. [Read more…]

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Josh Brolin Has A Big Hammer In A New Oldboy Remake Poster

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oldboy-poster2After years in development and a lot of people saying Hollywood shouldn’t have even thought of remaking Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy, Spike Lee’s new take on the 2003 film is due for release in just a couple of months time. Now a new poster has arrived, showing a rather haggard looking Josh Brolin and his hammer!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘OLDBOY is a provocative, visceral thriller that follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. Co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley, OLDBOY was directed by Spike Lee, from a script by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, The Cell, Thor). The film was produced by Roy Lee, Doug Davison and Nathan Kahane.’

The film will hit cinemas in November.

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Zachary Quinto Joins The Girl Who Invented Kissing

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Zachary-QuintoThe cast of The Girl Who Invented Kissing is coming together, with Variety reporting that Zachary Quinto, Natalie Dormer, Adelaide Clemens and Stephen Graham have signed up to star.

The actors join the previously Timothy Simons (Veep) in the romance, which is about two brothers whose lives are thrown in to turmoil when they both fall for a mysterious young woman who drifts into their small town. It’s not known exactly who any of the actors will play.

Tom Sierchio (Untamed Heart) is directing from his own original screenplay. It’s not clear when it might start shooting.

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Neil Marshall Plans To Helm Troll Hunter Remake

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neil-marshall-pic1Back in 2010, many were impressed by the Norwegian found footage fantasy horror Troll Hunter. The film quickly ignited Hollywood interest, with Chris Columbus signing on to produce a remake in June 2011. Now the do-over is moving forward, with Deadline reporting that Neil Marshall has signed on to rewrite and direct the

The original movie, directed by André Ø, followed a group of students investigating a series of bear killings. They meet up with a mysterious troll hunter, who shows them the gigantic beasts who are really responsible for the killings, and are being hidden by the government in the frozen north of Norway. It’s not known how closely the remake will stick to this.

Production is scheduled to begin in early 2014, on a budget of $25 million. Marc Haimes (Men In Black II) wrote the original draft of the screenplay, but the filmmaker will do a director’s pass on the script before production begins in early 2014.

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