Aaron Milo, Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton all return continuing where previous film Drama Camp left off. We will always have a place in our hearts for Eating Out so the latest instalment The Open Weekend was one of our early highlights in 2012. The cast is super-hot and includes Houston Rhines, Galen Drever, Noah Schuffman and Brad Pennington. Delving into the influence apps are having on the love lives of gay men everywhere, the story highlights why the grass isn’t always greener. It may have taken a while to reach our shores but eCupid was worth the wait. This will be going on our ‘must-watch at Christmas’ list. Warm-hearted and lots of fun, the film is packed with a gorgeous cast including David Moretti and Ronnie Kroell. Scrooge and Marley is a gay re-telling of A Christmas Carol adding a new twist to the familiar Scrooge story. This is one film we heard lots about in 2012. It also includes the gorgeous Benjamin Lutz from The Love Patient and Bite Marks.
It stretches believability a bit but it’s a charming movie with plenty to enjoy. Rob Williams writes and directs this story of a man who falls in love with an older man and unbeknownst to him the older man’s son. This one crept out just before the end of 2012 and is getting a UK DVD release this month. 2012 was a strong year for gay cinema and film-makers are seriously raising their game.
Take a look at our Top 10 and see if you agree with our choices. All of the films in our list have been released on DVD somewhere in the world over 2012 and theatrical releases have not been included. Some of the films from our mid-year list have made it into our final Top 10 and some have been edged out by releases in the second half of the year. Now we’re into 2013 we’ve revised that list to bring you our Top 10 gay films of the year. It's directed by Christoper Miller of the acclaimed filmmaking duo Lord & Miller ( The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) in a solo effort.In July we brought you a Top 10 count down featuring our favourite gay films of 2012 so far.
It's very silly, but it's also a genuine murder mystery, with an investigation run by unlikely buddy cops Haddish and Early. They all had a motive, and each episode tells a different party guest's side of the story from their POV, which is further separated from the others by being cloaked in a different movie genre. Most of them are playing old classmates of a pop star ( Dave Franco) who was murdered at his own afterparty for his high school reunion. The all-star cast (who, even if they're not super-famous, are all stars) includes Ben Schwartz, Sam Richardson, Ilana Glazer, John Early, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, and Jamie Demetriou.
This comedic murder mystery limited series combines the plot mechanics of Knives Out with the sense of humor of an Upright Citizens Brigade sketch. Sam Richardson and Ben Schwartz, The Afterparty Apple TV+ Does she choose the one who understands her grief, or the one who may be her ticket out of it? While the story itself is packed with teen melodrama, it's the raw emotion and visual storytelling that make this worth a watch if you're pining for an escape, not to mention the love triangle, with one of those points being Lennie's sister's ex-boyfriend. Decker bounces between truly fantastical moments - a new boy at school's trumpet literally drops waves of musical notes that send those who hear it swooning and collapsing - with the natural beauty of the California Redwoods - Decker uses the light between the trees as brushstrokes to illuminate her characters - for a film that's hard to take your eyes off of. They collide in A24's teen romance The Sky Is Everywhere, a sensory triumph from director Josephine Decker, who melds imagination with stark reality when a high school girl, Lennie (Grace Kaufman), is torn between two boys after her older sister's sudden death. Two emotions get the most out of teenagers: grief and love. Jacques Colimon and Grace Kaufman, The Sky Is Everywhere Apple TV+