Gay-Friendly Blu-rays (1 Viewer)

[KeithDA]

Not to mention that she's ALWAYS a great time on The Graham Norton Show!

She’s a bit more serious in ‘The lost daughter…’

 

[Will Krupp]

She’s a bit more serious in ‘The lost daughter…’

Well, yes! That's why it's always a treat to see her being such a goof on Graham's show!

 

[Mark-W]

Soooo, I keep going back to Heartstopper and have ordered the books now. I will post a spoiler tagged analysis of why I think this series is so special and is giving curmudgeons like me the feels over and over and over. I am not alone. Nothing is hitting me like this. Call Me By Your Name is a close second, but that was more of an intense reawakening of long dormant feelings of loss and regret, love mixed with melancholy, related to former loves now lost to AIDS and cancer.

I will post that spoiler tagged follow up on Heartstopper in several weeks.

As for the Disney thing, yea, well, it is mostly accurate, as ptb2017fr noted, the love interests in Love, Victor clearly are at least talking about having sex and its been a while, but didn't they even talk about lube?

Between Elsa needing to come out and Luca basically being the story of a gay kid worried about revealing his true self and being murdered for it....hard to miss which culture is being appropriated here... that and how the heavily promoted gay character in Jungle Cruise had one line of dialogue easily excised for the Asian market that made him gay, and ya, Disney, we have a problem.

Unrelated, the next series I plan to watch that I keep seeing very good word on is Our Flag Means Death
Gay pirates!

Anyone seen it yet?

 

[KeithDA]

Soooo, I keep going back to Heartstopper

The Guardian underlined its importance too:

Heartstopper is dazzlingly brilliant TV – I wish my lonely younger self could have seen it | Owen Jones

Growing up, I never saw any positive representation of my sexuality. I’m glad things are so different for a new generation, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

 

[Matt Hough]

I will finish Heartstopper today. It's been a wonderful ride thus far.

 

[RollieNZ]

Fabulous series! Highly recommended.

 

[Matt Hough]

Yes, it caught me from its first episode, and I was weeping happy tears by the end. Well worth the time investment.

 

[Mark-W]

Yes, it caught me from its first episode, and I was weeping happy tears by the end. Well worth the time investment.

Thanks for updating us, Matt!
I know teen-centric series/movies are not really of interest to you; it means all the more that you enjoyed this.

 

[Mark-W]

I cannot wait!..but Imma gonna haveto. September 30th?!?! SEPTEMBER..but really all-but-OCTOBER!

 

[Will Krupp]

I cannot wait!..but Imma gonna haveto.

OMG!! Lol, I LOVE it!!

 

[KeithDA]

I cannot wait!..but Imma gonna have to. September 30th?!?! SEPTEMBER..but really all-but-OCTOBER!

Calm down - the trailer might have shown all the best bits.... remember 'Jingle all the way'...?

 

[ptb2017fr]

Ive just started catching up with Swedish series Young Royals. Hope it doesn't go the way I'm expecting it to go, which is bad. Though like in Heartstopper the boys are awfully young, something that concerns me as I enjoy watching these shows. On another site I recently published a video tribute to lost French actor and super hunk Gaspard Ulliel. In one brief clip he was accompanied on the red carpet at a premiere by a fully clothed 14 year old boy. I was banned for encouraging under age sex!
In the meantime TK and Carlos got engaged in Lonestar! Hurray! And there's to be another series. Great! Am so in love with this couple. The love/affection shown between them is magical. And they are both so hot!

 

[Matt Hough]

I just saw that Heartstoppers has been renewed by Netflix for two more seasons.

 

[ptb2017fr]

Why in Young Royals did nobody mention that a gay monarch is nothing new in Sweden? Queen Christina and Carl Gustaf III

 

[RollieNZ]

Calm down - the trailer might have shown all the best bits.... remember 'Jingle all the way'...?

I absolutely HATE it when they do that!

 

[Mark-W]

I absolutely HATE it when they do that!

Who knows? We don't know.

What we do know is that this is *not* a Hallmark movie. We were excited that Hallmark was adding gay romances to their catalogue -- Hallmark had denied we existed for so long and even temporarily capitulated to anti-gay pressure to excise a gay-inclusive advertisement from their commercial breaks!--, more than we should have been excited (and overly optimistic) that any Hallmark or Lifetime film with LGBTQ+ characters would be better than any other Hallmark or Lifetime films.

What you're mentioning seems to me be more akin to those films like Scary Movie or Meet the Spartans where the best (and sometimes the only truly funny) parts were in the trailers.

The New York Times has an article on Bros. They mention the test screening audience scores:

For “Bros” to create further opportunities, it needs to find a mass audience. Heading into test screenings, Stoller described himself as “naïvely optimistic,” confident that the movie worked emotionally and that most of the jokes would land.

According to Stoller — Universal wouldn’t offer specific numbers — “Bros” tested higher than any other movie he has worked on, even with straight audience members. Viewers who identified as L.G.B.T.Q. scored it even higher.

As Apatow put it, “The crowd basically said to us, in a way that I thought was very emotional, we’re ready for this movie, and we’ve been ready for it for a really long time.”

Link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/movies/bros-billy-eichner.html

Maybe the film will come out and I'll be disappointed. I'd rather be excited for it right now. Jud Apatow is a producer on a film for us, by us, with us, that just might be fantastic.

 

[Mark-P]

In my household we just finished watching Heartstopper. I'm on board with everyone here, it's a great show. It's everything I wanted Glee to be but wasn't. While it still maintains a storybook feel with roots to its graphic novel origins, it also seems really rooted in reality. Someone mentioned Olivia Coleman being such a great mom, actually I think her character probably represents the norm nowadays in how parents react to their child coming out. Now for next season, I want to learn more about Isaac. I know the type, likes to hang with his friends but lurk in the background, never saying much and nose always in a book. He seems really intriguing.

 

[Wayne_j]

Not blu-ray, but my local Landmark owned theater is showing LGBTQ+ movies every Tuesday in June.

6/7 Brokeback Mountain
6/14 To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
6/21 But I'm A Cheerleader
6/28 Maurice

 

[Mark-W]

Fire Island is available now on Hulu. My mom read a review in the paper and now wants to watch it with me.
I think that will be tonight.

Also, on a much more somber note, Terrence Davies's new film Benediction is in theaters today.


It is getting rave reviews. I am seeing it later today.

 

[bujaki]

Saint-Narcisse on iTunes for $4.99. A Film Movement release. It covers many bases. LGB; twins; incest; child molestation in a monastery; flagellation during self-abuse. It's a Canadian blast from Bruce LaBruce.