Posted in August 24, 2010 ¬ 11:11 amh.Nick
Did he jump or was he pushed? Gay director Bryan Singer was, until recently, lined up to direct the X-Men prequel, following on from his megaphone duties on the first two X-Men movies. However, Brit helmer Matthew Vaughn is now in the chair while Singer stays on as a producer.
I guess we’ll never know the [...]
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Posted in August 18, 2010 ¬ 11:40 amh.Nick
Ah, the gay best friend; that media coined phrase which forever relegated us to mere supporting status at the movies: a source of camp fun and bitchy one-liners and of course a shoulder to cry on when it all goes tits up.
NewStatesman.com (we’re going high-brow today) has a great piece about the potted history of [...]
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Posted in July 22, 2010 ¬ 8:32 pmh.Nick
The universe can be a strange place, or at least Google’s algorithm can. Take, for example, an idle search on the term ‘gay movie’ using their search engine. This brings up a news item about a supposed gay Nigerian movie called Men In Love. Sounds pretty gay interest so far, except that the news title [...]
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Posted in July 9, 2010 ¬ 1:19 pmh.Nick
A confused young man moves with his family to a new area. In his bedroom closet he discovers a diary that belonged to the girl who used to live there and in it she describes the dreams she had about an older man – Jesse is also having dreams about a similar older man.
He tries [...]
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Posted in May 30, 2010 ¬ 2:14 pmh.Nick
You know when certain straight friends, all with good intentions, suddenly get the inspiration of setting you up with another homo friend of theirs as if gay dating is like joining the dots: this friend is gay; that friend is gay – bingo! How could it possibly not work out?…
I know a lot of negative [...]
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Posted in May 21, 2010 ¬ 7:51 pmh.Nick
Most sub-genres in art or entertainment are invented on the spot by journalists in order to sound smart and well-informed. Thus there is so much crap talked about and meaningless labels thrown around when actually most of us judge something on whether we liked it or not.
Music has always been the biggest culprit and in [...]
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Posted in March 29, 2010 ¬ 8:42 pmh.Nick
I turn my back for 5 minutes and the blogaysphere has been firing up over the movie Ticked Off Trannies With Knives, which I reported is showing at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Everything was fine and dandy until a few days ago when gay media watcher GLADD released a statement against the movie and banged [...]
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Posted in February 18, 2010 ¬ 8:10 pmh.Nick
It’s bad enough that YouTube thinks it knows what I want to watch, recent suggestions being 6 minutes of Tom Cruise’s teeth; Tyra Banks passing judgment on gay-for-pay porn stars; a Mexican short gay movie without any dialogue (or much point); Quentin Crisp explaining that the term ‘movie star’ used to apply soley to women [...]
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