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According to The Digital Bits, Sony has announced Space Station '76 on DVD (no Blu-ray) for 9/30/2014. Extras will include the Zero Gravity: Making Space Station 76 featurette, outtakes, and deleted scenes.
 

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Just finished watching Gayby...and I'm really ambivalent about it. Straight woman and gay man decide to have a baby together. "Hilarity" ensues. I think my exact problem with the movie is it's been stretched from an original 12 minute short into 90 minutes. There's a bunch of side characters who ultimately mean nothing in the long run. I get trying to create a world for the two leads to inhabit, but it doesn't work.

Plus, the script is too snarky. Not snarky in a fun way, but snarky in an eye roll sort of way. Case in point: there's a joke about gay republicans. I'm sorry, that's not funny anymore. One of the secondary characters grows a beard because he doesn't want to shave and gains weight because he eats since he's depressed. POOF! He's a bear. (Nope, not how that happens.) And his online name in "Nelly Bear 8." And a purse falls out of his mouth every time he talks.

I mean, come on. The two leads are fine, but everything around them destroys the story.
 

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I would really like to see two of Paul Rudnick's movies released on Blu-Ray......"Jeffrey" (starring Steven Weber and Patrick Stewart) and "In and Out" (Starring Kevin Kline). I'm really surprised they are not on Blu-ray yet?

Also, I recently saw another one of my favorite '90's movie "It's My Party" (with Eric Roberts and Gregory Harrison) in HD recently (I forgot which cable channel it was on?)....so I thought this might be released on Blu-ray too? So far, no signs of it.

All 3 of these movies, imo, our classic gay-themed movies and I would really like to see these be released on blu-ray soon!!!
 

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mrz7 said:
I would really like to see two of Paul Rudnick's movies released on Blu-Ray......"Jeffrey" (starring Steven Weber and Patrick Stewart) and "In and Out" (Starring Kevin Kline). I'm really surprised they are not on Blu-ray yet?
Wow, I had completely forgotten about JEFFREY!! It holds a special place in my heart, too, so shame on me. As a young gayling, I went to visit my much older cousin in Washington DC (also gay) and went with his then boyfriend (now husband) to see JEFFREY at the Uptown Theater. It was my first experience seeing a gay movie in a large city with a predominantly gay audience (holy shit can it REALLY have been twenty years ago????) and it was a liberating, inclusive, head spinning experience (that for me, apparently, eclipsed the actual film we were seeing!)

It was a fun movie, too, that I would love to see again (I mean, Patrick Stewart..come on!) and I've always enjoyed Paul Rudnick. I miss Libby Gelman-Waxner!
 

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Will Krupp said:
It was a fun movie, too, that I would love to see again (I mean, Patrick Stewart..come on!) and I've always enjoyed Paul Rudnick. I miss Libby Gelman-Waxer!
She has for the last year or so been turning up in the pages of Entertainment Weekly at odd intervals. Has that arrangement been terminated?

Also love Jeffrey and wept my way through the agonizingly heartfelt It's My Party just like I did the more recent The Normal Heart.
 

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Matt Hough said:
Also love Jeffrey and wept my way through the agonizingly heartfelt It's My Party just like I did the more recent The Normal Heart.
We saw NORMAL HEART on HBO when it premiered and it was, of course, devastating and wonderful. My blu-ray came yesterday and I just wasn't in the mood to revisit the "whole thing" at that particular time so I'm afraid I just watched the sexy bits last night and ignored the rest of the story. I admit felt kinda guilty though, does that make me a bad person?
 

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Okay, see, this is why I didn't put The Normal Heart on Tuesday night. I told the new bf I wanted to watch it with him this weekend so we can be emotionally wrecked together. Part of me is "looking forward" to it...another part isn't.
 

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Jason,

Thanks for mentioning the price at Best Buy for The Normal Heart. I had it pre-ordered as soon as possible way back when at Amazon, and it was going to be $17.49, but it still had not shipped, so I cancelled and went to Best Buy tonight. Paying $0.50 more to be able to watch it this weekend is an acceptable cost. :)

Funny, the naughty elements at the start of the film reminds me of Longtime Companion, which could *really* use an upgrade from the non-anamorphic DVD. The opening, also on Fire Island, and the lovers back in the city (the actor and doctor in particular), got me much too...uh...riled up, at the start of that film. :)

Nice to hear some of you like Jeffery! I think I was the only one in my little group at the time that LOVED it.
 

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Coincidentally, one week before I saw the film of Jeffrey I saw a local stage production of it. It's an interesting stage piece - the movie has a somewhat different tone from the stage production, at least the one done here - but no one can beat the terrific cast of the movie especially Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, and Bryan Batt.
 

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In memory of Robin Williams, I watched The Birdcage. It's gay-friendly, but a farce.In and Out is a farce, too, but I'd like to see it on blu. It was one of the "safe" movies that I could watch with my parents.
 

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I think Jeffery was hot on the local theater circuit at the time. Triangle Productions here in Portland, Oregon had a production of it the two seasons leading up the film's release and it was very popular. I went. I preferred the live theater version as some parts did not translate well to the film, but we got Olympia Dukakis, Bryan Batt, Michael T Weiss (hubba) and Patrick Stewart. I never saw Star Trek the same ever again.

And now I know one reason why Stewart may have done Sterling so well: Look at these two long time bosom buddies! :)
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Matt Hough said:
Coincidentally, one week before I saw the film of Jeffrey I saw a local stage production of it. It's an interesting stage piece - the movie has a somewhat different tone from the stage production, at least the one done here - but no one can beat the terrific cast of the movie especially Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, and Bryan Batt.
 

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"Jeffrey" is my all-time favorite gay movie!!! There are so many funny innuendo's in this movie. Love the part where Jeffrey (Steven Weber) is working out at the gym and he first sees Steve (Michael T. Weiss).....Jeffrey waives his hand.....the background music stops....the people in the background freeze and Jeffrey clenches his fist to mouth with a huge "hubba, hubba" sigh as he gagas over Steve.....it's just too funny.Then when they first kiss (in the gym).....flash scene to 2 teenage straight couples in the movie theater....the girls say "awwweee" and the boys spit up their popcorn. Paul Rudnick is a comedic genius in his writing!!!Lots of great stars in the movie as well....Sigourney Weaver, Olympia Dukakis, Patrick Stewart and Nathan Lane (who plays a priest in the most hilarious and controversial part of the movie.....Classic!!!) Every time I watch this movie (and I probably have watch it at least once or twice a year).....I pick some kind of joke or innuendo I missed before....the lines and comedic timing are just that quick and funny!!!!And, of course, cowboys being my weakness....LOL.....the cowboys dancing sequence is not only hilarious.....but hot as hell (Did you see Michael T. Weiss in a cowboy hat?.....talk about hubba....hubba!!!).....See now your getting the best of me.....I have to watch this movie again tonight....LOL.All and all..."Jeffrey" is just a great movie. It wasn't as mainstream as "In and Out" or "The Birdcage".....but every gay boy/man who saw this back in the '90s remembers this movie. (I saw it the first time with my ex-boyfriend in an independent small theater in Chicago....the audience in the theater had non-stop laughs the whole time!!!) Like Will Krupp said earlier....."this movie holds a special place in my heart".....I ditto the sentiment!!! And definitely this movie needs to be released on BLU-RAY!!!! (along with Paul Rudnick's other film "In and Out" and of course my other '90's gay movie favorite...."It's My Party"!!!)
 

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I gotta tell you, I went in to this with NO expectations whatsoever and was completely charmed by this in every way. It's funny, it's sweet, it's silly, it's slick, and it made my heart melt. Directed by Darren (Jawbreakers) Stein, it's filled with familiar faces and they all seem to be having a great time. The three girls are played by Sasha Pieterse ("Pretty Little Liars") Andrea Bowen ("Desperate Housewives") and Xosha Roquemore (hysterical in "The Mindy Project"), there's a funny performance by Jo-Jo (yes, THAT Jo-Jo) as the founder of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance that has no actual gay members, and lo and behold there's Evanna "Luna Lovegood" Lynch playing an absolute bitch with a flawless American accent and not a nargle in sight. The rest of the cast is filled with familiar faces Megan Mullally (perfect), Jonathan Silverman, Natasha Lyonne, Rebecca Gayheart and, for about 30 seconds, Horatio Sanz.
Thanks so much for the recommendation, Will. I pushed GBF up to the top of my Netflix queue and we watched/slept through it on Friday night. (Jerry had seen it before and I watched the whole thing Saturday morning.) It's a fun little movie with plenty of positive messages about honesty and being yourself.

I'd also second your sentiment about Michael J. Willett. Really loved him and everything he did in the movie. The only thing I didn't like was I never bought these actors were high school age...but that's a small quibble.
 

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Finally got to watching this film today.
As you pre-warned, the editing is confusing.

The cast was certainly sexy and there were moments, e.g. swimming scene, I thought I was watching an alternate version of Stranger By The Lake.

Because of the issues with the non-sequential story-line unfolding and the editing not tipping of us when we're watching a flashback, I found myself somewhat disengaged from the characters, and, in the end, felt like the whole thing was a bit of 93 minutes of "not enough..."

I was not surprised the final credits reported it was based on a true story, as it seemed a bit aimless, all over the place, and lacking.

Glad I watched it, but the film is not one I would recommend to others unless the eye candy makes it worth it to you. (The three guys were extremely gorgeous, if all bordering on twinkdom.)
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I know I brought up Sex of the Angels and it was liked...even though, even like I mentioned, it was a tad light on the "non-straight" end of things.

Another even better movie. The (chronology of the) plot is a mess, but after I watched it the 2nd time, three days later, it made much more sense.

Sex of the Angels meets The Dreamers...

One Two Another
 

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Thanks so much for the recommendation, Will.
I'm so glad you liked it Jason!

Speaking of Michael, I liked him SO much in this movie that, although MTV series are not exactly my cup of tea (among other things I never forgave them for their truly loathsome American remake of the truly wonderful UK series SKINS), I started watching FAKING IT. It's about two unpopular straight girls who are incorrectly outed as lesbians in high school who then decide to go with it as it suddenly makes them popular. Soon, one of the girls starts to realize she may not be as straight as she thought she was. It's cute and the two lead girls are very appealing. Michael Willett plays (what else?) the popular gay kid (much less tentative than in GBF) and seems to be having a lot of fun with a very meaty part. In addition to Michael, we also get supreme eye candy in the form of his character's best friend, played by British dreamboat Gregg Sulkin. The show's certainly not deep (in case you were afraid it might be!) but it's certainly a pleasant enough diversion and picks up quite a bit of steam once it gets rolling.
 

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Rudnick did a great job with that scene in particular, which was not (obviously) in the live theater version...and it is brilliant!

I still don't understand some het girls' response to man on man smooching, but I have a lesbian friend that likes gay male porn, which I thought was a fluke until Julianne Moore's lesbian character in The Kids are Alright (another great LGBT-friednly film on Blu-ray and with Mark Ruffalo) goes into great detail about why she likes all male porn.

Also, I just want to say it is great to see you posting in this thread, mrz7!

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Then when they first kiss (in the gym).....flash scene to 2 teenage straight couples in the movie theater....the girls say "awwweee" and the boys spit up their popcorn. Paul Rudnick is a comedic genius in his writing!!!Lots of great stars in the movie as well....Sigourney Weaver, Olympia Dukakis, Patrick Stewart and Nathan Lane (who plays a priest in the most hilarious and controversial part of the movie.....Classic!!!) Every time I watch this movie (and I probably have watch it at least once or twice a year).....I pick some kind of joke or innuendo I missed before....the lines and comedic timing are just that quick and funny!!!!
 

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