From the prolific team behind recent gay movies Shank, Release and Buffering comes this simple but all-too-common story of a teenager caught up in the euphoria and excitement of first sex who, inhibitions lowered, doesn’t realise the consequences of his actions until it’s too late.

The film begins with a 16-year-old school boy waking up to his final day of exams before the summer holidays. After it’s over he celebrates by going to a gay club with his best friend, Jess. Young, naive and intoxicated with new experiences, he becomes an easy target for an older, sexually confident guy with more than dancing on his mind. Jess intervenes, but the older guy isn’t going to give up easily and, armed with poppers, sees his opportunity and follows the teen to the bathroom…

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(Dir. Carl Medland. UK, 2011. 90 mins).

The Cost of Love is an entertaining curiosity and while it’s neither as hip/current as some other recent queer Brit cinema, it nevertheless feels like a very personal and heartfelt piece of adult drama with some memorable characters and funny moments.

Cynical Dale is a 28-year-old hustler with a sharp tongue and an appetite for risky sex. His two best friends bring him pain and relief in equal measure: handsome Raj announces his engagement to Veena, (apparently) unaware that Dale is in love with him; while cross-dressing Sean cuts close to the bone with his comments about Dale’s mixed-up life.

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The Cinderella Effect promises to be a lot more ambitious than your average gay movie short: this tongue-in-cheek romance pays homage to some classic fairytales and Hollywood endings with an original score of musical numbers.

Randall Grimm is a young dreamer who ends up at an L.A. gay film festival after-party and imagines it into a kind of Walt Disney romp, turning the cynical movie execs into evil stepsisters in his head, and a handsome leading man (to be played by Matthew Montgomery) into his Prince Charming. Oh, and there’s a fairy godmother in there too.

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(Dir. Q. Allan Brocka. US, 2011. 90 mins).

Depending on your point of view, you might think a gay movie franchise modelled on, but hitting below, the juvenile American Pie comedies is a positive thing … or you may not. There’s no denying this successful film series has found its niche and fans of Eating Out 1, 2 and 3 will certainly enjoy this latest entry.

To bring you up to speed: Casey (played by twinky Daniel Skelton)- the cousin of Kyle, star of the first two movies, who died after an oral sex related car accident – is now with gorgeous Zack (the stud he tries to snare in Eating Out 3 by posting a fake online profile) but the sex is dwindling and the spark seems to have gone. So when they both get accepted to summer acting school – ‘Dick Dickey’s Drama Camp’ – on the back of their gay slasher short film, Zack uses it as an excuse to avoid his feelings and Casey starts to feel like that nerdy reject again, especially when Zack’s libido cranks right back up for his hot new roommate, Benji (Aaron Milo)… with me so far?

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(Dir. Christophe Honoré. France, 2010. 72 mins).

Christophe Honoré’s cinematic love letter to gay porn star François Sagat doesn’t really have enough meat on its bones to justify a full-length feature and will likely rely on its graphic sex scenes and Sagat’s status to pull in an international audience.

The movie starts with a male rape scene between lovers Emmanuel (Sagat) and Omar (Omar Ben Sellem) as the latter, a young filmmaker, is overpowered by his muscled boyfriend while he prepares to leave for New York. This brutal end-point in their relationship is also the start of much figuring-out as the two men, separated by an ocean, try to get over each other with a series of sexual encounters.

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