Universal Pictur proudly prents the first romantic edy om a major stud about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg towards love. Maybe. They're both very by. From the feroc ic md of Billy Eichner and the hmakg brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow, Bros, a smart, swoony and heartfelt edy about fdg sex, love and romance amidst the madns.
Contents:
- ‘BROS’ REVIEW: BILLY EICHNER’S SELF-DEPRETG GAY ROM-COM LETS EVERYONE IN ON THE JOKE
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- LE MACFARLANE ‘BROS’: THE HOTTT MOVIE STAR OF THE YEAR IS A GAY MAN. FALLY!
‘BROS’ REVIEW: BILLY EICHNER’S SELF-DEPRETG GAY ROM-COM LETS EVERYONE IN ON THE JOKE
Billy Eichner’s gay romantic edy — -starrg Le Macfarlane and Guy Branum — is msy, funny, and ultimately charmg when isn’t weighed down by all the firsts. * bros movie gay kiss *
Sure, ’s a well-budgeted, wi-release, R-rated gay rom-, and that’s historic (if you put enough qualifyg adjectiv ont of ), but one of those had to e along sooner or later.
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
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Oddly, feels like there already have been others, and there’s no qutn more are g, nsirg how hard Hollywood has been workg to clu gay characters. The difference what we’ll ll “Billy Eichner’s Hollywood Screen Kiss” is that centers a gay character, stead of jt g him as sassy ic support.
Eichner plays podster Bobby Leiber, who, the send scene, accepts somethg lled the Cis Whe Gay Man of the Year Award, an acknowledgement that even the realm of mori, he’s somethg of a privileged class.
LE MACFARLANE ‘BROS’: THE HOTTT MOVIE STAR OF THE YEAR IS A GAY MAN. FALLY!
Photo Illtratn by Kelly Camero/The Daily Beast/Getty “I’m no stranger to timacy,” says Le Macfarlane. Given what we’re discsg—the explic sex scen and filthy, flirty dialogue between gay men that happens the new movie Bros— the next words that e out of his mouth are unexpected: “I’ve kissed a lot of women on Hallmark.”In ways that might be difficult to unrstand, that is a powerful statement.Macfarlane and I are a SoHo hotel room to discs Bros, his new romantic ed * bros movie gay kiss *
That uncertaty is perhaps the most thentic thg about “Bros” (gay or straight, men are famoly mment-averse); ed, this element uld be what -wrer and director Nicholas Stoller brgs to the equatn, nsirg how astutely he examed that aspect of morn datg “The Five-Year Engagement. This is the terrory where “Bros” breaks new ground, sce the “l” of gay rom-s have yet to be dified: like whether havg someone’s undivid attentn is a turn-off or a good thg, and what each character needs to feel appreciated and adored.
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There, surround by a sea of shirtls men, the two bond over their mutual belief that “gay guys are so stupid, ” which feels like a b om Eichner’s “Difficult People” seri.
Lots of sex, language hilar gay rom. Read Common Sense Media's Bros review, age ratg, and parents gui. * bros movie gay kiss *
But what do such a judgment mean to Bobby and Aaron, who aren’t shown readg books or discsg polics — unls you unt talkg about the gay experience, which is pretty much all Bobby do. There are plenty of dienc out there who’ve been wag their entire liv for Hollywood to greenlight a mastream gay movie (and sure, we’ll pretend that all the queer-iendly ntent on HBO and Netflix don’t unt, that “The Birdge” and “In & Out” never happened, that John Waters is too cult and “Moonlight” too margal).
“Straight people love seeg miserable, ” Bobby observ at one pot, and though Eichner giv the gays a happy endg and lots of lghs along the way, damned if he don’t seem miserable for most of the movie. It’s not some die or “some streamg thg which feels disposable, ” as he said to Variety, words he then clarified after they were terpreted as a slight agast fellow gay rom- Fire Island, which premiered on Hulu June.