KUSH TRAILERS OF THE WEEK
It’s been a long time since we’ve featured movie trailers and being honest, this post is a little bit laughable because some of these are a couple of weeks old. Nonetheless we can still discuss our expectations, thoughts and excitement from these recent notables. 2015…
LeSean Thomas’ Cannon Busters
Even though I stopped reading and collecting comics back in 1999, the manga style art work of Battle Chasers was one of my favorites. In the vein of Battle Chasers, fast forward to 2014 and the Kickstarter campaign for Cannon Busters, a proposed animated short/series…
WATCH: BAG MAN
More disappointing time spent this week viewing another black gay web series on YouTube from a “can you review my web series on your website” director’s email request. I’m replaying dialogue in my head between Nick Delmacy and screenwriter James Peoples from Podcast #23 about…
WATCH: 2am The Smiling Man
What do you get when you ask Reddit users to detail their creepiest or scariest encounters? Subreddit r/LetsNotMeet. For what it’s worth, the moderators of this subreddit require the submissions to be 100% true. I’m assuming if not they delete them or the story gets…
“Elm Street” Documentary Reveals Freddy Krueger’s Gay Secret
What kind of self-respecting geek culture website from the perspective of gay men would we be without speaking about A Nightmare on Elm Street’s infamous gay secret? That’s right. One of the Freddy Krueger movies is gay…like REALLY gay.
Does This FREEFALL Interview Prove There’s Financial Hope For Black Gay Content Creators?
In a recent interview with the small UK based LGBT blog, Vada Magazine, the creator of the web series Freefall, Lamont Pierre, opened up with interesting details about the show that may give hope to new content creators.
Nas’ Documentary “Time Is Illmatic” Official Trailer
As a Nas fanatic, everything in the world right now needs to stop and pay attention to the new trailer for the documentary Time Is Illmatic. As many Cypher Ave readers know, we heart NAS’ Illmatic. Shadow And Act gives us a great write up…
Kick Ass Movie Trailers
Don’t you just hate when you see an awesome movie trailer but the movie never comes to theater? Or it eventually makes it to DVD but it seems like it take 2 years? Well let’s hope that doesn’t happen to the kick ass movie trailers…
Comic-Con 2014: Trailers and Teasers
Comic-Con International, the biggest nerd convention in the world, concluded last weekend. As usual, new teasers, trailers and exclusive sneak peeks were screened for the crowds in attendance.
WATCH: Hilarious Action Film Musicals We’d Pay Major Guap To Actually See Get Made!
Thanks to Jon and Al Kaplan, I’m now stoked to see full length musical adaptations of some of my favorite action films from the 1980’s
FILM REVIEW: The Godzilla Reboot Harkens Back to Classic Creature Features of our Youth
For fans of 70s and 80s monster films (like me), you will be very impressed with the confident pacing, stunning visuals and storytelling that unravels until its all about the Big Man himself.
WATCH: The D.L. Chronicles RETURNS – Episode Thomas
Fans of gay cinema will finally be able to see Cypher Avenue’s Best Gay Film of 3013, The D.L. Chronicles: Episode Thomas, beginning May 19th 2014.
A Quick Review: The Happy Sad
The 2004 film Crash has ruined independent films for decades to come; why? The answer is because the characters’ stories in the Academy Award winning film are masterfully intertwined and intersect to a climatic conclusion. Since then, many web series creators, independent film writers and…
The 13 Best Male Black Gay/Bisexual Characters …EVER!
Instead of continuing to complain about what we don’t have in the media, we decided to appreciate the positives and celebrate the best black gay characters we’ve seen in film and television.
New Black and Latino Gay Films Unleashed at the 2014 OUTFEST Fusion Festival
The Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival begins again in March this year with a whole new crop of films made by or about gays and lesbians. The festival runs from March 14-16, 2014 at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles, California.