Tag: drama

The 2018 Oscars race has begun. The trailer for the gay conversion drama, Boy Erased, is finally here, and grab some tissues because it is an emotional gut-punch. The film, directed by Joel Edgerton, is based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name, and stars Lucas Hedges (who played a gay high school student in last year’s Lady Bird) as Jared, the 19-year-old son of a Baptist pastor (Russell Crowe), who sends him to a California-based Christian ex-gay program. “Boy...

Joel Edgerton's adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir stars Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe The first official photos have been released for Boy Erased, the upcoming film about a teenager’s harrowing experience at a gay conversion camp. As first reported last summer, Joel Edgerton directed the film, which he adapted from Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name. Conley, son of an Arkansas Baptist pastor, was sent to Love in Action, a California-based Christian ex-gay program, at age 19. His...

"Why don't you take care of yourself?" Advertising has opened up to LGBT representation worldwide, but a lip balm commercial out of Thailand is taking it to the next level: In it, a teen confronts another boy, claiming he’s broken his sister’s heart. But the boy is stunned when his rival leans in seductively and reveals, “I told her… ’I don’t think of you like that—I prefer your older brother'” He then moistens the other boy’s lips with some KA Lip Care. “Don’t...

The Blue Neighbourhood singer joins a star-studded cast for the 2018 film. Move over, Harry Styles. There’s a new heartthrob musician making the jump to film. Troye Sivan has just joined the cast of Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, a “coming-of-age and “coming-out drama” based on a memoir about gay conversion therapy. In the original book, Garrard Conley’s Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family, Conley describes the situation he faced after being outed in his freshman year of...

The film will explore the hardships of growing up gay in a small conservative town. Director Joel Edgerton is bringing Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir, Boy Erased, to the big screen. Edgerton wrote and will direct the film adaptation of the book, which will star Manchester By The Sea’s Lucas Hedges, according to Deadline. The memoir tells the story of Conley’s time attending Love in Action, a program designed to “cure” homosexuality, after being outed to his conservative parents in his small Arkansas...

Put your hands up if you fancy Liberty High’s star baseball player… Ever since Netflix’s latest series 13 Reasons Why hit screens earlier this month, viewers have been swooning over Clay Jensen’s study buddy Jeff Atkins, played by the very handsome Brandon Larracuente. The 22-year-old’a smile and his character’s supportive nature is a beacon of light in the hard-hitting teen drama, which has been well received by fans and critics alike. But the American star’s Instagram has been putting more than a smile of fans’...

The first teaser for award-winning gay indie movie Beach Rats has arrived. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year – and receiving rave reviews from critics – distributors Neon have announced that the flick will hit cinemas in Autumn, and have shared an enticing teaser online. Beach Rats tells the story of aimless youth Frankie (Harris Dickinson), who struggles to escape his bleak home life as he navigates sexuality and balances friendships, a potential new girlfriend, and the older...

Last year's gay drama Those People has made a change in the world of gay movies. Joey Kuhn's, director and screenwriter, has put on the screen a gay love story that resembles many other love stories in the real world, for both gay and straight people. Actually, the movie was inspired by Kuhn's love for his best gay friend, a love that was never complete, yet it never ceased to exist. Those People focuses on two main characters, Charlie, a sensitive artist who...

If you haven't heard of the ultimate gay film, you should know that something steamy is going to take over the big screen, and that is King Cobra, a movie about the gay porn industry starring hotties from Hollywood. James Franco, Garrett Clayton and Christian Slater are few of the actors we'll see in hot gay sex scenes in the movie about the murder of Bryan Kocis, producer of adult movies featuring young men. Garret Clayton talked about his scene with Christian Slater....