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OUT NOW: Gay Lads Come Of Age In Dirty Girl, Toast, Romeos, And More!

While we eagerly await the release of Drive next week, there’s plenty of gay home entertainment to keep us busy. It’s gay versus straight soccer lads in UK import Kickoff (above), comedy with a heart (and lesson) in The Love Patient, life lessons and coming of age in Toast, and a chunky gay teen and his troublemaker BFF hitting the road in Dirty Girl.  When it rains it pours, you know?

http://youtu.be/1tSifCTYxRo

Toast
($27.99 DVD, Image)

Based on a memoir of openly gay UK foodie Nigel Slater, Toast sees a teenage would-be chef (Freddie Highmore) develop his first stirrings for haute cuisine—and other guys—in post-war England. Helena Bonham Carter is an arch delight as Nigel’s wicked stepmother, who finds him more a nuisance than a prodigy.

http://youtu.be/ylRRvu7ilHE

Abrupt Decision
($19.95 DVD, Water Bearer Films)

In scrappy queer filmmaker Paul Bright’s fifth feature, middle-aged gay professional Denis (Steve Callahan) gets laid off, his relationship hits some rocks, and his mom has a stroke. What to do? Become obsessed with rescuing stray pups, of course! Works for us every time.

http://youtu.be/aAjcGAg9urg

Over The Edge
($17.99 DVD, TLA Releasing)

There’s a killer on the loose and med-school dropout Jason (Danny Bedford),  prone to blackouts, fears he may be the one responsible! Thankfully, Jason has a hot gay co-worker, Richard (Sean Hart), to help him investigate. This match-up is more absurd—and outright queer—than Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

http://youtu.be/0GXgNilfBAI

KickOff
($24.99 DVD, Wolfe Releasing)

UK writer-director-actor Rikki Beadle-Blair (Metrosexuality) brings us this tale of a gay soccer team that comes up against some butch, straight rivals. Invictus this is not, but there are plenty of twists, turns, sass and shirtless multiethnic lads, plus bonus features including behind-the-scenes, a music video, and cast workout clips. Score!

http://youtu.be/UMZZmXDZg_E

Dirty Girl
($29.99 DVD, Anchor Bay)

This flashback comedy sees Danielle (Juno Temple), a rabble-rousing Oklahoma teen who’s no damn good, drag her chubby gay best bud, Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), on a cross-country road trip to find her birth father—and lose his virginity. A veteran supporting cast—Mary Steenbergen! William H. Macy! Mila Jovovovich! Tim McGraw(!?!)—help make this a winner. Make it a double feature with Todd Stephens’ fag-and-hag road trip flick, Gypsy 83.

http://youtu.be/dUo2C1DMOzs

The Love Patient
($24.99, TLA Releasing)

In this quirky gay rom-com, hot ad exec Paul schemes to win back his ex-boyfriend by pretending he has cancer. (Good plan!) But he’s soon deluged with concerned family members, physicians and holistic flakes who make his life miserable. From the maker of Gay Zombie (if that tells you anything), Patient imparts an important lesson: If you want sympathy from an ex, just pretend you have the flu or food poisoning.

http://youtu.be/JH19Kz87FwI

Romeos
($24.99 DVD, Strand Releasing)

Puberty hits German cutie Lukas (Rick Okon) late—because he’s an FTM and the testosterone injections have finally kicked in. And while navigating Cologne’s famed gay scene, Lukas falls for strapping hottie Fabio (Maximilian Befort) in this sweet love story with a twist.

ALSO OUT ON DVD:

Abduction (Lionsgate)

Belle du Jour (Criterion Collection)

The Ides of March (Sony Pictures)

The Josephine Baker Story (HBO)

Killing Bono (Paramount Pictures)

 

 

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