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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

American Assassin Red Band Trailer – Dylan O’Brien turns CIA black ops to stop Taylor Kitsch

June 20, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There’s been a fair amount of interest in American Assassin, partly due to the popularity of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp novels, which many have suggested are long overdue a trip to the big screen. Now the a new red band trailer has arrived, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien), a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). The pair are then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent (Shiva Negar) to stop a mysterious operative (Taylor Kitsch) intent on starting a World War in the Middle East.’

The movie will be in cinemas in September. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch  DIRECTORS: Michael Cuesta  FILMS: American Assassin  

The Only Living Boy in New York Trailer – Callum Turner & Jeff Bridges star in Marc Webb’s movie

June 20, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Amazing Spider-man director Marc Webb has gone back to smaller scale films since his seourn into superhero territory. First with Gifted, and now with The Only Living Boy in New York.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents’ Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas’ world begins to shift when he discovers that his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father’s mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family.’

The movie is due out in US cinemas on August 11th. No UK date is currently set. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Beckinsale  DIRECTORS: Marc Webb  

Win The Gay-Themed Best Picture Oscar Winner, Moonlight On Blu-ray!

June 20, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Moonlight was the little film that could. A movie that seemingly came out of nowhere to take the Best Picture Oscar at this year’s Academy Award ceremony. It was a stunning achievement for an indie, gay-themed movie. Now, as the movie arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and VoD in the UK, we’ve teamed up with Altitude Film Distribution Home Entertainment to give away a Blu-ray copy in this competition..

Moonlight is a moving coming-of-age drama about a young African American man growing up in a tough neighbourhood of Miami. The film has already garnered world-wide praise beating a stellar line up including La La Land and Hidden Figures for Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards®. Moonlight features an amazing cast of fresh and upcoming talent, including an Academy Award winning performance from Mahershala Ali (House of Cards,) and former athlete Trevante Rhodes (Westworld). The film also stars André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures), Naomie Harris (Skyfall), Ashton Sanders (Straight Outta Compton) and Jharrel Jerome (Monster).

Moonlight follows Chiron, a young black man from his early childhood in his depressed Miami neighbourhood to adulthood in Atlanta. Chiron navigates the dangers of drugs and violence in the 1980s, in addition to his burgeoning homosexuality and love for his best friend played by Jharrel Jerome and André Holland. Broken up into three chapters of his life over 10 years, three actors play Chiron: newcomer Alex Hibbert as the quiet boy nicknamed Little, dealing with the taunting of bullies, Ashton Sanders and then as the older Chiron, Trevante Rhodes.

For your chance to win Moonlight on Blu-ray, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on July 3rd, 2017, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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Screwed (Frameline Festival Review) – A gay summer romance gets complicated for two teen boys

June 19, 2017 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Mikko Kauppila, Valtteri Lehtinen, Sanna Majuri, Sami Huhtala, Amanda Virolainen
Director: Nils-Erik Ekblom
Running Time: 100 mins
Certificate: NR (US)
Release Date: June 19th 2017 (Frameline World Premiere)

I haven’t seen too many movies from Finland. That’s a shame purely because it limits my opportunities to put on a movie and go, ‘Is it Finnish? No, it’s just started’. But enough of the Dad jokes and on to the Suomi teen dramedy, which had its World Premiere at the Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival on June 19th 2017.

Miku is in his late teens, and doesn’t seem to quite know where he stands in the world. Quiet and introverted, he allows his wild brother, Sebu, to talk him into organising a wild party just before his parents are due to go and stay at their holiday cottage for the summer. After his parents find out, it puts a strain between Miku and his rather difficult mother, who insists their son spend the whole summer with them. [Read more…]

Michael Fassbender’s Alien: Covenant Gay Kiss Cut From Chinese Release By Censors

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

One of the most intriguing scenes in Alien: Covenant involves Michael Fassbender snogging himself – or least the androids he plays, Walter and David, lean in for a kiss. However, Chinese audiences won’t get the unusual pleasure of the actor kissing himself, as the censors in the country have cut it from the movie.

As THR reports, Chinese censors routinely cut a lot of the violence from Hollywood films, including 14 minutes from Logan and eight from Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. However, the six minutes that it took from Alien: Covenant wasn’t just about violence, as it also included the android-on-android gay kiss.

The ommission was noted shortly after the movie’s release on Friday, with Yu, a 26-year-old assistant at an advertising agency in Shanghai, quoted as saying, “For the other missing parts you don’t notice or know when it happens, but you can really feel something is missing where the gay kiss is supposed to be.”

Many knew the peck was supposed to be there after seeing media reports, and apparently the way it has been excised from the film is quite abrupt.

The Chinese censors are known to be pretty inconsistent with gay content, allowing it in some films and not in others. Some have suggested this shows divisions between more liberal and conservative parts of the censors’ office, with others saying it’s more political, both internally and externally. For example, allowing the innocuous ‘gay moment’ in Beauty & The Beast was trumpeted in the People’s Daily Worker, while the likes of Brokeback Mountain and even some Chinese-produced movies with gay content have been banned outright.

You can take a look at the Fassbender-on-Fassbender kiss here.

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ACTORS: Michael Fassbender  DIRECTORS: Ridley Scott  FILMS: Alien: Covenant  

The Drama Club (US VoD Review) – Secrets emerge when teenage friends reunite after 20 years

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Dane Bowman, Chris Ciccarelli, Barry Finnegan, Melanie Lewis, Chelsea Brandt
Director: Joe McClean
Running Time: 87 min
Certificate: NR (US)
Release Date: June 13th 2017 (US VoD)

20-years-ago a group of Drama Club high school friends went on a retreat together. Now they’re getting back together for an anniversary meetup. The friends have all stayed in touch via social media, but they haven’t seen each other all that much. As you might have expected, while many things have changed, others have stayed very much the same.

The previously nerdy Nathan has now muscled up and he’s not going to take the bully-ish antics of Luke anymore. However, the increasingly conservative Luke has his own issues, as he’s due to go to prison soon for white collar fraud. The popular Elle is now married, and while her husband doesn’t seem to mind the fact she’s slept with three of her old friends, Elle may take things too far. Hannah is now a born again Christian who’s saving her virginity for marriage (even though she’s had sex before), and may have a soft spot for one of her old friends. [Read more…]

The Lego Batman Movie (Blu-ray Review) – Has the Caped Crusader gone a little gay?

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Zach Galifianakis, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Chris McKay
Running Time: 104 mins
Certificate: U
Release Date: June 19th 2017 (UK)

The Lego Movie was a surprise to many – a film that when it was announced sounded like such a bad idea turned out to be one of the funniest, most original animated movies of the last few years, and a major hit to boost. Warner Bros. suddenly realised they had the potential for something much bigger, so rather than just putting a sequel in the works, they started working on spin-offs, including a Ninjago movie and The Lego Batman Movie.

We first met the Lego version of Batman (Will Arnett) in The Lego Movie – an arrogant vigilante convinced of his own greatness and jealous of the praise other superheroes get. He starts out the same here, saving Gotham City from The Joker and a Rogues Gallery of villains, and confident about how awesome everyone thinks he is. However, he’s also obsessed with doing things alone, with the result that when he’s back at Wayne Manor, he only has his butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) for company. Batman thinks that for the best, but it may be because he’s afraid of having a family. [Read more…]

Crush Of The Day: Nyle DiMarco Jumps On A Trampoline In His Undies, Because Pride

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Nothing epitomises the spirit of gay pride more than jumping up and down on a trampoline wearing nothing but your Calvins. Well, at least that’s the way sexually fluid America’s Next Top Model winner, Nyle DiMarco, has decided to show his pride colours.

I’m not 100% sure why underwear trampolining displays pride, but I am certainly not complaining. If Nyle DiMarco wishes to bounce up and down for our pleasure, I will not be standing in his way. Actually, if this is all he wants to do for the rest of his life, I wouldn’t mind that either.

Take a look a the video below, and see how much pride you feel by the end of it. Oh, and as a bonus, take a look at him sucking on a banana for Paper Mag (he’s not the most subtle of people, it has to be said). [Read more…]

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Win The Autopsy of Jane Doe On DVD, Plus A Limited Edition T-shirt & A Sgned Poster!

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

To celebrate the home entertainment release of THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE we have a copy of the DVD, a limited edition T-Shirt, and signed poster up for grabs, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment!

An ordinary autopsy turns into a nightmarish ordeal for father and son morticians, played by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, in a brilliantly macabre white knuckle horror thriller that’s ‘scary as hell’ (Crave), and ‘not for the squeamish’ (Hollywood Reporter); and none other than the master of horror himself Stephen King raves “Watch it… but not alone”.

Experienced coroner Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox) and his son Austin (Emile Hirsch) run a family-owned morgue and crematorium in Virginia. When the local Sheriff brings in an emergency case – an unknown female corpse nicknamed ‘Jane Doe’, found in the basement of a home where a multiple homicide took place – it seems like just another open-and-shut case. But as the autopsy proceeds, these seasoned professionals are left reeling as each layer of their inspection brings frightening new revelations. Perfectly preserved on the outside, Jane Doe’s insides have been scarred, charred and dismembered – seemingly the victim of a horrific yet mysterious ritualistic torture. As Tommy and Austin begin to piece together these gruesome discoveries, an unnatural force takes hold of the crematorium. While a violent storm rages above ground, it seems the real horrors lie on the inside…

THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE will be available on EST 19th June, and DVD, Blu-ray and VOD 26th June.

For your chance to win The Autopsy Of Jane Doe on DVD, plus a t-shirt and signed poster, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on July 2nd, 2017, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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Crush Of The Day: Colton Haynes Is Having A Rough Night In A G-String (& It Hurts)

June 17, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Sometimes actors have to suffer for their art. Luckily there are occasions when their suffering means pleasure for us. That’s certainly the case here, where Colton Haynes has been showing off what he looks like in a g-string, but adding that wearing the skimpy garment hurts.

The image of Haynes in bed with actress Jillian Bell comes from the set of Colton’s new movie, Rough Night. In the film he plays a male stripper who gets caught up with a group of women on a hen party (including Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon) who accidentally kill a different stripper. It’s in US cinemas now.

We couldn’t help but shed a tear for him when we saw the hastag, #GstringsHurt, and felt we’d better study the picture more closely to see if there’s anything we could think of that might have helped. Take a look at the full Instagram pic below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Colton Haynes  

New Zealand’s First Lesbian Web Series, Pot Luck, Needs Your Help For Season 2

June 17, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

This time last year, most of the first season of New Zealand’s very first Lesbian web series. Now it’s hoping to come back for Season 2, but needs your help to do so. The makers have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Boosted, in the hope of raising $(NZ)16,500.

The series already has some funding NZ On Air’s Digital Fund. This has been bolstered by contributions from Wellington City Council’s Arts and Culture Fund and key sponsor Hell Pizza. But it needs the help of fans to top that up, with the hope of shooting starting in August.

Set in Wellington, New Zealand, Pot Luck Season 1 introduced the world to the lives of Mel, (Nikki Si’ulepa), Debs (Anji Kreft) and Beth, (Tess Jamieson-Karaha), three lesbian characters in their 30s and 40s. The universal themes of friendship, family and finding love have been positively received by a broad audience both in New Zealand and overseas, with the majority of viewers based in the United States.

Ness Simons, the writer and director, is looking forward to sharing the next stage of Mel, Debs and Beth’s friendship and romantic lives in season two, which picks up a few months after Season 1 finishes. She says, “The past few years have seen some great steps in terms of queer characters on screen but portrayals are still limited, and while there’s increasing mainstream acceptance of lesbians in shows such as Wentworth and Orange is the New Black, these characters are in jail and don’t really represent the everyday lesbian experience.”

Season 1 has had over two million views online, and has screened at festivals including UKWebFest, DubWebFest (Dublin), NZWebFest, LA based OutWebFest, Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Web Series Festival Global. It was a finalist in the LGBT categories at DubWebFest and the NZWebFest. Pot Luck recently swept the pool in the Rome Web Awards, winning 10 Merit awards in the LGBT category, which has led to 9 nominations in their Excellence Awards, to be announced very soon.

Take a look at the crowdfunding video below, and if you like what you see, head over to Boosted to help out. You can also catch up with Season 1 here. [Read more…]

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Dusk Trailer – Duncan James stars in the second part of Jake Graf’s trans short film trilogy

June 17, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Last year, trans director (and sometime actor) Jake Graf got huge amounts of praise for his wonderful short film, Dawn, which saw a blind man and a trans woman meeting while waiting for a bus. Dawn was the first part of a trilogy, which continues with Dusk, which has a rather dramatic trailer.

The film premieres tonight at the East End Film Festival in London as part of the New Queer Visions strand at the Rio, Dalston.

The short film is told through flashbacks over several decades of the protagonist ‘Chris” lifetime, exploring how the choices we make can change our lives fundamentally. The cast includes Duncan James, (Chicago, Legally Blonde, Hollyoaks), Victoria Emslie, (The Danish Girl, Downton Abbey, The Theory Of Everything), and US model and actor Elliott Sailors (Spectrum), and crew including award winning cinematographer Lorenzo Levrini and award winning composer Justine Barker.

Take a look at the trailer below. You can find out more about other East End Film Festival New Queer Visions screenings here. [Read more…]

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