Jonathan Bent on Hallmark's gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster |

Contents:

• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR
• RISTANCE WAS FUTILE FOR JONATHAN DEL AR, PLAYG THIS GAY SVENGALI
• ‘JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE’ REVIEW: A GAY PORN STAR IS BORN
• BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG
• "I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

It is a young man's attempt to know the story about his parents, one of whom he has never known, and the other who is now of the reviews here are plag that celebrated homophobia, and/or mimized the gay story le, or that isn't tly a gay story at all. The gay characters might be sendary to the primary character, but 's a gay story how those sendary characters affect the primary character, and the impact they have had on him. His reactn and tratn are is not celebratg homophobia; is monstratg how impacts people and them to do untentnally cel actns; is monstratg the damage that homophobia do.

THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR

This wasn't about the son beg homophobic, was about his very reasonable and unrstandable sense of betrayal, learng that he had been told li about his parents, for his entire life... I have many bon to pick wh this film, endorsed by the IMDb advertisg gay-themed films like 'Beg 17' (a real masterpiece and a tly gay film) alongsi . The real subject is havg termal sk ncer, and the gay element: a former lover who looked as ordary as him.

I thought of the German film 'Harvt' wh s endg that had me real tears, a film tly about love and another kd of sufferg, of beg a remote and timidatg ral settg for disverg homosexualy. If this is aimed at a gay dience (and was the Teddy sectn at the Berl Film Ftival) then the dience gog to see the film should be willg to nont the visibily of the father, the te subject, rather than the wonr of the actor who played Jonathan (unremarkable the actg partment) on the poster.

RISTANCE WAS FUTILE FOR JONATHAN DEL AR, PLAYG THIS GAY SVENGALI

Back to Niewöhner: His character himself has a relatively unlikely love relatnship gog on for himself that may be entirely different sence pared to his dad's, but eventually there are siari bee both are facg major obstacl for their cisns and, the film do go a b over the top perhaps when to pictg homophobia as really is basilly accepted our society nowadays and some of the drama did not rg te. The actg and screenplay are atroc (pecially Jonathan, who may look good onscreen but I wish they had limed his words and some lghable actns, like slammg his fists to the sea a homophobic f and stroyg his homema lamp workshop) and the directn is nseatgly slow and repetive. Go watch the utterly glor "God's Own Country" (the bt gay film s) or some of the wonrful gay films g om Brazil, Portugal, and Spa.

There was a gay themed Amerin movie alg wh termal ncer, but that movie, there wasn't the overwhelmg sadns of alg wh the ath of a loved one.

‘JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE’ REVIEW: A GAY PORN STAR IS BORN

The Hallmark Channel is set to make history — and make good on s promise for more LGBTQ-cln — wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay lead character.

BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG

In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage. '" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022. " And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay?

"I'M GOG TO GIVE THEM THE GAYT MOVIE EVER MA": AN ORAL HISTORY OF ANOTHER GAY MOVIE

As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay. Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho. He subsequently land var rol film and TV shows, which turned him to one of the biggt LGBTQ+ stars the he certaly played several non-queer characters throughout his reer, Groff did get the chance to play a few gay men on stage and on screen who have left a signifint mark pop culture.

Between his high-profile (but non-queer) rol Glee, Frozen, Mdhunter, and Haton, Groff also found time to play gay characters and brought a lot of thenticy to each of through to learn more about Jonathan Groff’s bt gay rol throughout his reer. HBOGroff played the protagonist of HBO’s Lookg, Patrick Murray, a gay man his late 20s livg San Francis and gettg entangled different relatnships.

Universal Pictur2023’s Knock at the Cab featured gay uple Eric (played by Groff) and Andrew (played by Ben Aldridge). It also revers the generatnal nflict that driv more tradnal gay-themed plotl, a neat twist which do not fully exce a few lurch to overoked melodrama. Distracted by sizzlg sexual chemistry wh his father’s young nurse Anka (Julia Koschz), Jonathan only grasps the tth long after most movie viewers will have figured out: Burghard is gay, but has kept his sexualy hidn om his son for s.