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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

The Comedian (DVD Review)

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Edward Hogg, Elisa Lasowski, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jamie Baughan
Director: Tom Shkolnik
Running Time: 75 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 29th 2013 (UK), April 14th 2015 (US)

Ed (Edward Hogg) is in his early 30s, a northerner who’s been living in London for a decade and is hoping to make it big as a comedian. However few people seem to laugh at his jokes, with a compere describing his act as ‘interesting’ rather than funny.

Outside comedy he’s stuck in a phone call centre job he hates and has a slightly dysfunctional relationship with his flatmate, who’s in love with him even though he’s gay. After striking up a conversation with a man (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) on a bus, they start a relationship, which begins to highlight the ennui and sadness at the heart of Ed’s life. [Read more…]

A Late Quartet (DVD)

July 28, 2013 By Adrian Naik Leave a Comment

Starring: Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 29th 2013

The world famous Fugue Quartet has reformed a year after cellist Peter’s wife passed away. Determined to play Beethoven’s notoriously challenging Opus 131, the aging Peter (Walken) is now facing retirement due to the early onset of Parkinson’s, while second violinist Robert (Hoffman) and his wife, violist Juliette (Keener), have reached a breaking point in their relationship. All the while the cold first violin, Daniel (Ivanir), refuses to accept that the people in his quartet are struggling to survive together. Can the quartet keep it together for one last grand farewell to Peter? [Read more…]

Side Effects (DVD)

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 19th 2013

I don’t think they did the early marketing of Side Effects very well, particularly in the US, as it was presented as if this was in the vein of Steven Soderbergh’s ensemble tales like Traffic and Contagion, but this time taking on the pharmaceutical industry. However it isn’t anything really like them – although it rather deliberately starts out like them and retains a streak of questioning our love of prescription drugs – as this is really a full-on twisty, turny thriller designed to keep you guessing as to what’s really going on. [Read more…]

Dressed To Kill (Blu-ray)

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz
Director: Brian De Palma
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: July 29th 2013

For years Brian De Palma has carried around the moniker of being a Hitchcock imitator, and it is perhaps Dressed To Kill more than any of his other movies that’s the cause of that. While it is its own beast, it’s hard to escape the fact that the movie borrows liberally from Hitchcock, particularly Vertigo and Psycho – from killing off the main character partway through to a fascination with sex and perversion.

However it’s slightly like Hitchcock on acid, as it’s far more overblown than the master, which has led to accusations of sexism and transphobia. Various people have tried to explain away these claims over the years, but it does sometimes seem like Dressed To Kill is punishing its characters for not conforming to sex and gender norms. [Read more…]

Nick Frost Talks About How He’s Happy To Be A Gay Bear Icon

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Would you like to see The World’s End star Nick Frost wearing white chaps in a fantasy photo shoot? Well, if Frost and Conan O’Brien are to be believed there are plenty who do, as in a recent interview Nick’s been talking about being a gay icon to the bear community.

The Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz star talks about his bear qualities, which appear to extend to just about everything but sleeping with men.

The World’s End is in cinemas now. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Nick Frost  

The Birth Of A Nation (Blu-ray)

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, George Seigmann, Joseph Henabery, Henry Walthall
Director: D.W. Griffith
Running Time: 195
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 22nd 2013

If ever there was a ‘difficult’ film, it’s Birth Of A Nation. The 1915 silent movie is massively important, changing cinema forever by creating the movie epic and hastening the move from short, one-reel films to feature length movies. Directed D.W. Griffith showed the scope and scale of what cinema could be in a way never seen before. In doing so he created the first monster hit, which played for a year (at live-theatre prices) in New York and was re-released pretty much every year for a couple of decades after that. [Read more…]

Win Horizon On The Middle Of Nowhere On Blu-ray!

July 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

horizon-embed-a-comp-web-2Set in the distant future, Horizon On The Middle Of Nowhere opens with the nations of the world squabbling over the Earth’s last inhabitable land, Japan. Above them floats the ship city of Musashi, home to our hero, pervy class president Aoi Tori, and his fellow students at the Ariadust Academy. Fast-paced action, political skulduggery and classroom antics combine with a stunningly imaginative setting to make Horizon On The Middle Of Nowhere an intriguing addition to the sci-fi anime ranks.

Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 29th July, and to celebrate, we have a copy on Blu-ray up for grabs!

If you’d like to try and win the Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere Blu-ray that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on August 10th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Win A Great The Wolverine Steel Chopsticks Set!

July 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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The Wolverine is now out in cinemas now, and to celebrate that we’ve been sent a rather nifty steel chopsticks set, complete with rests and the words ‘The Wolverine’ engraved into them, all presented in a rather nice box. At least we’re presuming it’s made of steel and not adamantium, like Wolverine’s claws.

We’ve decided to give away the rather cool chopsticks set to one of you!

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.

If you’d like to try and win The Wolverine steel chopsticks set that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on August 9th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Win The Gay-Themed Festival Hit The Comedian On DVD!

July 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

the-comedian-dvd-coverTrinity Films brings The Comedian to DVD on July 29th following a successful festival run and cinema release. We’ve teamed up with them to offer three of you a copy of the DVD!

Trying to make it on the London comedy circuit, he spends his nights performing in small rooms above pubs and his days making ends meet at a call centre. Ed lives with Elisa – a beautiful French singer. The two are like brother and sister – inseparable, loving and asexual; Ed funny and playful, Elisa soulful and sensitive.

Ed meets Nathan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), a gorgeous young black artist – blunt, honest and free. They immediately connect and begin a passionate affair. Suddenly the intimate bond between Ed and Elisa is threatened as he is torn between his attraction to a man and his love for a woman.

Filmed without a script and shot on location in East London, The Comedian is an authentic, moving drama that finds the comedy (and tragedy) in everyday life.

If you’d like to try and win one of the three copies of The Comedia 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 9th 2013, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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First Clip Of Shia LaBoeuf In Nymphomaniac – Getting NSFW for Lars Von Trier’s film

July 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Nymphomaniac is definitely intriguing, with Lars Von Trier promising it will feature real sex, although due to it having a high profile cast, some of the shagging may involve body doubles and special effects. A few weeks ago we had the first clip from the movie, which unsurprisingly wasn’t exactly hardcore. Now another comes, which give us our first look at Shia LaBeouf in the movie. The clip is safe for work, but as you can see, the new pic above isn’t.

The likes of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Willem Dafoe, Uma Thurman, Connie Neilsen and Stacy Martin also star.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The film is a wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Skarsgard), finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he cares for her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushly branched-out and multi-faceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.’

No release date is currently set, but expect it later this year. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Shia Labeouf  DIRECTORS: Lars Von Trier  FILMS: Nymphomaniac  

Cold Comes The Night Trailer – Bryan Cranston stars in Tze Chun’s film

July 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Sony Pictures has picked up worldwide distribution rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes The Night, and with that news comes a trailer for the film, which stars Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), and Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus).

The film tells the story of a struggling motel owner (Eve) who, along with her daughter (Parker), is taken hostage by a career criminal (Cranston) as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop (Marshall-Green).  Everyone gets in over their heads, and a series of double-crosses leaves a string of dead bodies in this pulse-pounding story about desperation and survival.

The movie is due out in the UK in September.

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ACTORS: Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green  DIRECTORS: Tze Chun  FILMS: Cold Comes The Night  

New Romeo And Juliet Trailer – Hailee Steinfeld & Douglas Booth are star-crossed lovers

July 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Romeo And Juliet is one of the most popular tales to adapt in the history of cinema. From the silent era onwards we’ve had a string of films based on Shakespeare’s play, the latest of which will hit cinemas this autumn, with Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth as the star-crossed lovers.

Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Ed Westwick, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Stellan Skarsgard also stars. The film was shot quite a while, but it’s only now it’s preparing for release.

A new trailer and poster have now been released, which lays the period renaissance detail and Shakespearean language on thick. It’s certainly going to be pretty, but it remains to be seen whether, after the likes of Franco Zeferelli and Baz Luhrmann’s versions, we really need another Romeo And Juliet. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth  DIRECTORS: Carlo Carlei  FILMS: Romeo & Juliet  
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