A pair of actors both with gay movies out this month get naked for UK magazine GT all in the name of charity.

And you can watch behind-the-scenes footage above of Daniel Brocklebank (star of Release) and Jay Brown (FIT) at their naked photo shoots as they pose for the cameras and talk about their current film projects (Jay has just made a thriller with Glee actress Dianna Agron).

They are among 31 male celebs stripping off to raise awareness of sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust. There will also be an online auction running between 9 – 19 December to raise money for the charity, so you may be able to bid for the chair Daniel sat in during his shoot!

GT’s naked issue is available to buy now.

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Gay movie Children Of God has been picked up for US and UK distribution next year by TLA Releasing.

This Bahamas set film by writer/director Kareem Mortimer boasts an up-and-coming cast and has been very successful at gay film festivals around the world in 2010, winning no less than 13 awards.

The story follows three very different and intertwining characters: the wife of a homophobic preacher; a young, closeted black man and a gay artist in search of himself.

Children of God is an entertaining and inspiring romantic drama as well as a powerful social critique of the destructiveness of homophobia,” said TLA’s president and director of acquisitions, Raymond Murray.

“It is one of the most important gay-themed films of recent years and TLA is proud to be able to distribute the film.”

Gay sex was only legalised in The Bahamas in 1991 and gay movie Brokeback Mountain was banned there in 2005.

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If you thought the reviews for Burlesque were bad, check out the scathing notices for Colin Farrell’s new movie, London Boulevard.

Classic Brit gangster thriller The Long Good Friday was released 30 years ago, but part of the UK film industry refuses to move on, regularly going ‘sarf’ of the river and churning out slicker and slicker but increasingly vacuous knock-offs, through Guy Ritchie’s extended pop promos to this latest film, which also stars Ray Winstone as a violent and wise-cracking gay mob boss (hey, that hasn’t been done before!).

I particularly love the Metro’s description of Farrell’s character as “freshly discharged from [prison] with no dosh and no fixed accent”. And in reviewing Keira Knightley’s performance as a famous movie star, the paper notes that she “achieves the mean feat of playing herself unconvincingly”. Ouch!

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There’s a heartwarming piece on Australian news site ABC.net.au about a young, gay, urban couple who upped sticks from the city and moved to the dusty Australian Outback.

The move was prompted by doctor Vincent Cornelisse’s desire to leave the faceless city hospitals and move to a much smaller community where he could get to know his patients and watch their progress. So, along with his filmmaker boyfriend Jonathan Duffy he set up practice at a place called Mundubbera.

Vincent and Jonathan were understandably anxious about the reaction from this close-knit, rural community to their arrival, but their story has a happy ending: after locals, presumably, realised that these men don’t have forked tongues, spit acid and bite the heads off baby kangaroos they became an integral part of village life.

Jonathan particularly relished his newfound role as ‘the doctor’s wife,’ which is now the title of a documentary he’s been making about their journey from the bright lights of Brisbane to this little community. He hopes to show it at gay film festivals next year.

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For a film namechecking and set in UK’s gay capital, Brighton Rock is a surprisingly hetero affair.

This reworking of the Richard Attenborough classic has bumped Graham Greene’s bloody, gangland story into the Mods and Rockers filled ‘60s (so the filmmakers may have added some gay elements).

It stars Burberry model Sam Riley (who was excellent as Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in 2007’s Control) as Pinkie Brown, the brutally sadistic, teenage gang-leader and one of the very nastiest characters ever created.

The film also stars Helen Mirren and John Hurt and is due for release early next year. Empire magazine have some new set pics. Nice poster too.

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