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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 Dark Tower Trailer – Matthew McConaughey & Idris Elba face-off in the Stephen King adaptation

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After years in development, the trailer for the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has finally arrived, along with a couple of rather cool character posters. You can take a look at them below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘There are other worlds than these. Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, the ambitious and expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors, makes its launch to the big screen.  The last Knight Warrior, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.’

The movie hits cinemas in August. Watch the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Character Posters Debut

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is one of the big unknowns of the summer. Director Luc Besson must believe in it, as it’s know the most expensive French movie ever made, with an estimated budget of over $200 million.

The trailers have looked impressive, but it’s going to need to make an awful lot of money to make a profit, and considering it’s based on a property that’s not desperately well-known outside France, it’s tough to know how audiences will respond. Now a new set of character posters have arrived, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other.  There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.’ [Read more…]

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Take Your First Look At Kenneth Branagh’s Star-Studded Murder On The Orient Express

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While Kenneth Branagh was putting together his new filmic take on Agatha Christie’s classic Murder On The Orient Express, quite a few big-name stars came and went, including Angelina Jolie. However, he ended up with quite a cast, including Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., and Branagh himself and the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.

Now we’ve got out first look at the movie, via EW, which suggests plenty of 1930s glamour, while Branagh and his impressive facial hair suggest a more hard-nosed version of Poirot than we’re used to.

Christie’s novel is about a death on the world’s most famous train, when a man known as Mr. Ratchett is stabbed 12 times and killed. Hercule Poirot, who happens to be travelling on the Orient Express, starts to investigate, discovering that many people could be the culprit – which is where all the new movie’s other famous faces come in.

The movie is due out in November. Take a look at the first pics below. [Read more…]

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Melissa McCarthy Joins Henson Puppet Noir, The Happytime Murders

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For quite a few years The Jim Henson Company has been working on The Happytime Murders, but despite plans to shoot in 2010 and 2012, and stars likes Katherine Heigl and Cameron Diaz linked to it at various times, the project has remained stuck in development hell. ​This time last year it seemed things were moving forward, as Jamie Foxx was circling the lead role.

It doesn’t look like he’s involved any more, but instead another great talent has come onboard, with Variety reporting that Melissa McCarthy is set to star. She comments, “When a really good script combines puppet strippers, Los Angeles’ underbelly, and comedy, it’s like my fever dream has finally come true.”

The basic concept of the film is that it’s set in a world where puppets are second-class citizens, but just as likely to get into booze, drugs and sex as any of their human counterparts. When the puppet cast of 1980s children’s TV show The Happytime Gang begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet (who has a drinking problem), Phil, takes the case with his former human partner. It’s been descibed as Avenue Q meets LA Confidential, which is quite a mash-up.

Jim Henson’s son Brian is set to direct the movie, which is due to finally start shooting in August.

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Matt Bomer Talks About The Difficulties He Faced With His Parents When Coming Out As Gay

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While there are many heartwarming stories out there about families brought closer together when someone comes out as gay, there’s still a lot of prejudice out there and it can sometimes be difficult. That’s particularly true if you come from a conservative family, like actor Matt Bomer did.

He’s been talking about how he came out to his parents to Out, telling them, “Telling your family is a huge, huge deal. I really view my life as divided between the time before I told my parents, and the time after. And the decisions I made, and the life I lived, before and after, are vastly different. It’s night and day.”

As he says of the time before, “I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren’t even allowed to watch ‘secular’ television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.”

He then relates the story of his coming out, “I wrote a letter to my parents. I would have lost my sense of direction if I tried to do it in person… There was radio silence for a long, long time, at least six months… And then I came home and we had the blowup that I’d always feared. But we got that out of the way, and we got down to the business of figuring out how to love each other. I would say within a matter of years we started to figure it out. It was a struggle. It’s a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script. So I’m empathetic toward everyone. And my family is so loving. My mom just asked me, [my husband] Simon, and the boys to go down and speak to her women’s group in Houston so, you know, I’m here to tell people it can get better. Because I had so many people in my life saying, ‘You need to get rid of all expectations — you need to cut them out.’ But I was like, ‘They’re my family’.”

As he points out, “I want to say that since then, my family’s come around and they are amazing, incredible grandparents to our kids.”

So even if coming out can be hard and cause family problems, that isn’t always the end of the story.

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Counting For Thunder (US DVD Review) – Rediscovering family and gay love in the Deep South

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Phillip Stalworth (Phillip Irwin Cooper) is an actor in LA, although he’s not been having much luck with his career. As his mother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he decides to head back to his hometown in the US South. His girlfriend knows this is the end for them, which allows Phillip to take a complete break from his LA life.

His return home inevitably brings up old family issues, not least his somewhat difficult relationship with his emotionally distant and seemingly selfish father (John Heard). His mother (Mariette Hartley) meanwhile is ailing, with Phillip and his sister struggling to find ways to help her. [Read more…]

Utopians (US DVD Review) – An erotic look at gay self-discovery

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Filmmakers in mainland China still have issues with LGBT content, as official censors are often pretty squeamish about anything decidedly queer, and have even tried to prevent some gay-themed Chinese films from screening at festivals outside the country, as well as banning them in China. However, it seems things are a little more relaxed in Hong Kong, where Utopians is set, as the movie includes a lot of full frontal nudity – most of it male – and even a very explicit male masturbation scene that goes right the way through to completion.

The film follows Hins (Adonis He), a student at a university in Hong Kong. He has a girlfriend, but in his dreams he’s started to have thoughts about men. That side of himself finds a further outlet when he starts studying under the outspoken Professor Ming, whose class explores ideas such as homosexuality and the philosophical ideas about utopias. [Read more…]

Stray: Episodes 4-9 – Can a gay guy & a straight guy’s bromance continue?

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A few weeks ago we posted the first few episodes of the new web series Stray (here and here). Now the show has wrapped up its season with another six short episodes, which you can take a look at below.

The series follows a gay guy and a straight guy who become roommates. While the straight dude doesn’t mind his roomie’s sexuality, he’s often pretty clueless about the in and outs of homosexuality, leading to a few awkward conversations that sometimes threaten to disrupt the growing bromance.

Those issues range from the relative merits of Tinder and Grindr to the merits of their first time in the sack. Watch the rest of the fun little series below. [Read more…]

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Garden Of Stars Trailer – Next to the Grimm Brothers’ grave, stillborn babies & gay people rest in peace

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Synopsis: ‘From Pasquale Plastino & Stéphane Riethauser, Garden of Stars explores the life of Ichgola Androgyn, an AIDS activist who runs German’s first cemetery café. As an undertaker, Ichgola focuses on stillborn babies. For these so-called “Star Kids”, he created a corner with thousands of flowers, pinwheels, elves, fairies, angels and teddy bears watching over the graves, where parents can find an individual spot for their lost child.

‘Next to them, many men who wrote key chapters of the Berlin gay liberation movement are resting, victims of the AIDS epidemic. In one of Europe’s most colorful cemeteries, the funerary culture suddenly takes a new dimension, and life is celebrated with all its mysteries.’

The documentary is due out in the US on VOD June 13th  and on DVD September 5th. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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B&B Trailer – A gay and bloody battle for survival in the award-winning film

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B&B has certainly had a fair amount of success on the festival circuit, including winning Best LGBT Film at the London Independent Film Festival, and distributor Peccadillo Pictures picking up the UK and Ireland rights. While we’re used to plenty of gay-themed comedies and drama, this one takes us into horror/thriller territory.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Marc and Fred exercise their civil rights by checking in at a B&B run by devout Christian Jeff and his teenage son Paul. Jeff has already been successfully sued after he refused them a double bed. Our heroes have come back to demonstrate who’s in the minority now. All goes to plan until a thuggish Russian checks in. Is Alex a fellow gay campaigner or a neo-Nazi come to support homophobia overseas? The gag quickly runs sour as our couple begin to fear they’ve been set up for a beating. A terrifying death occurs but not the one we’ve been expecting.  When Marc and Fred uncover a cold-blooded murder they realize they’re next.’

The film was written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Joe Ahearne (Trance, The Replacement, Doctor Who), who comments, “I wanted to do a thriller in the Hitchcock vein but with gay characters making the wrong choices and getting terrified out of their wits. B&B goes beyond the gay relationship movie. It’s a thriller with a married couple at the centre, something I haven’t seen before.”

The couple is played by Tom Bateman (Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express, Amy Schumer’s Snatched) and Sean Teale (Bryan Singer’s Gifted, Ben Affleck’s Incorporated), and the B&B owner is played by Paul McGann (Withnail & I, Doctor Who).

B&B has just played in competition at the ECU Independent Film Festival in Paris and is also playing in competition at the MIFO LGBT Festival in Miami, OUT Film CT in Connecticut and a number of other festivals. To find out more about B&B, upcoming screenings, and its creators, please check the film’s official website www.BnBfilm.co.uk.

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Crush Of The Day: Jai Courtney Strips Completely Naked In The Exception (NSFW)

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While doing the promotional rounds for Suicide Squad, stories emerged about about Aussie actor Jai Courtney stripping butt naked and chasing the director around the set as a joke. Sadly though, nobody released any footage so we’d know exactly what that looked like.

However, now it’s become a lot easier to imagine, as pics from the actor’s full frontal scene in the movie The Exception have now popped up online. In the film he plays a Nazi soldier investigating the Dutch resistance, and in the process falls for a young Jewish woman. In amongst that, he finds time to take all his clothes off and let us see everything, including whether he’s circumcised or not.

You can take a look at a covered up pic from the scene below. If you want to see the the uncensored image and a gif of Courtney’s naked moment, head over the OMGBlog. [Read more…]

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Win A Fallen DVD & Book, Plus A Great DVD Bundle!

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Based on the worldwide best-selling book series, romantic adventure FALLEN is coming to EST on April 24th before arriving on DVD and VOD platforms from May 1st courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment. To celebrate, we’re giving away a Fallen DVD and book, plus a DVD bundle including Sing Street, Get a Job, LOL, and Nerve.

When Luce (Addison Timlin; That Awkward Moment, TV’s Californication) is sent to Sword & Cross reform school, accused of a crime she didn’t commit, she finds herself torn between two students: dangerous Cameron (Harrison Gilbertson; Need For Speed, Haunt) and mysterious Daniel (Jeremy Irvine; War Horse, Great Expectations). Tormented by strange visions, Luce begins to unravel the secrets of her past and finds she must choose where her feelings lie, pitting Heaven against Hell in an epic battle over true love.

Lauren Kate’s ‘Fallen’ series has repeatedly topped the New York Times Bestseller list since the first book was released in 2009 and has been published in more than 30 countries around the globe. The product of a truly global success story, FALLEN is the film the series’ legion of fans have been waiting for. Also starring Joely Richardson (TV’s Emerald City, Vampire Academy), FALLEN is a love letter to those fans and a love story for the ages.

For your chance to win a Fallen DVD and book bundle, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on May 14th, 2017, so get answering and good luck. [Read more…]

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