drama
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The Pass
The openly gay Brit actor Russell Tovey (TV’s Looking) currently wowing audiences in London’s Royal National Theater in previews of a revival of Angels in America, gives a tour-de-force performance as a closeted football player in The Pass. In possibly a career-best, Tovey repeats a role which he first created in the stage play of the same…
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Kept Boy
Chicago based openly gay writer Robert Rodi had a string of very successful hits with his highly enjoyable fluffy gay novels in the 1990’s which included such titles as Fag Hag, and Closet Case. One of them, Kept Boy, has now been made into a full-length feature film and like the sugar-daddy protagonist in the…
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Summertime
Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino is back on his home turf after a stint in Hollywood where, amongst other things, he directed two Will Smith movies. His new movie is the story of two Italian teenagers and although Muccino, in a story he co-wrote with Dale Nall, briefly starts their tale in Rome, he moves the action to the…
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Apricot Groves
In his first feature film Iranian/Armenian writer/director Pouria Heidary Oureh places his story in his two home countries which are very rarely the settings for any LGBTQ movie. The tale he spins is exceptionally beautiful and told with such a discreet compassion and understanding that when the main crux of the story is finally revealed, you…
