Fellow Travelers: a Gay Love that Spans Nearly 4 Decades [Review Episodes 3/7] 📺720

Fellow Travelers is an American political, historical, romance miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. The series focuses on the ups and downs of a decades-long romance between two men working on or behind the political stage who first met during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s.

Fellow Travelers 2023 @  Showtime,  Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video

Notes of Autumn: In Love We Find Inspirations and Directions

Notes of Autumn is a 2023 romantic drama movie by Hallmark, USA. In the film, a retired female pianist in the US temporarily changes homes with a writer friend in Canada, the former is losing direction in her life and and the later is running out of inspiration in his writing art. The new surroundings and acquaintances bring them unexpected love.

Notes of Autumn @  Hallmark, Amazon Prime Video

Red, White & Royal Blue: Three Flag Colors, Two Princes and One Romance

Red, White & Royal Blue is a 2023 American romantic comedy film, exploring the love story of two handsome men: Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez) first son of the female President of the United States and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) of Great Britain.

Red, White & Royal Blue @ Amazon Prime Vide

Firebird: When Love Can't Be Divided 🎥720

Firebird is a 2021 romantic war film directed by Peeter Rebane, based on the memoir The Story of Roman by Sergey Fetisov. Set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War, the film tells a true story of passionate but forbidden same-sex love between a private and a fighter pilot.

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Sergey, a young private struggling in the army, counts the days until the end of his military service. His life is turned upside down when Roman, an intrepid fighter pilot, arrives at base.

Affairs at the base have formed a beautiful friendship between Sergey, Roman and Luisa - the female secretary of the base commander.

Driven by curiosity and lust, Sergey and Roman gradually teeter on the edge between love and friendship. Later, they fell in love passionately.

Their love is subject to stalking, and intimidation by the commanding officer in the base. According to the regulations at that time, soldiers who are found to have same-sex relationships would be sentenced to 5 years in prison. This troubles and scares Roman because he wants to pursue his professional military career.

After being discharged from the army, Sergey pursues an artistic path. FireBird is the name of a ballet that Roman took Sergey to see for the first time in his life, which sparks his passion for art.

Roman is married to Luisa but still secretly has feelings for Sergey. Both Roman and Sergey are tormented by their hopeless love affair, until their love triangle is painfully decided by fate.

Aside from Tom Prior (as Sergey) who is British, most of the main actors in the film are of Eastern European origin such as Ukrainian Oleg Zagorodnii (as Roman), Russian Diana Pozharskaya (as Luisa), Estonian Margus Pragel (as Major Zverev).

Firebird was screened at many LGBTIQ+ Film Festivals in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong… and at several International Film Festivals.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Firebird has 88% positive reviews, with an average review score of 7.70. The rating on IMDb is 7.5/10.

[Firebird] Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

Margus Prangel ... Major Zverev

Tom Prior ... Sergey, Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Diana Pozharskaya ... Luisa

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

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Tom Prior ... Sergey, Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

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Death on the Nile: Armie Hammer Maintains His Play Role, But Downsized

Near the February 11, 2022 release date of the movie Death on the Nile, 20th Century Studios released a number of new posters and trailers, showing that actor Armie Hammer is still present but his role has been significantly downsized.

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Death on the Nile is a mystery thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. In the film, an unexpected murder occurs on the yacht S.S. Karnak on its Nile journey through Egypt. Famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is tasked with determining who of the passengers is the killer before they can move on to another victim.

Agatha Christie's original novels tap deeply into people's lusts and carnal pleasures, which get them caught up in merciless machination and behaviors, shrouded in a facade of their polite, luxurious, noble  and romantic appearances.

Armie Hammer plays Simon Doyle, husband of Linnet (Gal Gadot) and ex-lover of Jacqueline (Emma Mackey). Jacqueline is another jealous old friend of Linnet.

When Armie Hammer was involved in a scandal about suspicions of "cannibalism", "sexual abuse", there were many rumors that the film producer was re-casting another actor to replace Armie, or even use technique to digitally remove Armie's character from every frame. However, maybe it proved to be too complicated to do so because at that time the movie has been basically finished, Armie's role is still kept.

Armie's image is placed at a limited position on the main poster of the movie, he also does not have his own character poster like many other cast. In the first teaser, there was no footage of Armie, to the official trailer, there are a few short segments of him.

Letitia Wright ... Rosalie Otterbourne, Salome’s niece and business manager, as well as Linnet’s old classmate

Emma Mackey ... Jacqueline de Bellefort, Linnet’s jealous former friend and former lover to Simon

Sophie Okonedo ... Salome Otterbourne, a jazz singer and Rosalie’s aunt

Kenneth Branagh ... Hercule Poirot, a world-renowned private detective and former policeman

Tom Bateman ... Bouc, Poirot's friend and confidant and Euphemia’s son

Gal Gadot ... Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle, Simon’s wife and Jacqueline’s former friend

Armie Hammer ... Simon Doyle, Linnet’s husband and Jacqueline’s former lover

Gal Gadot ... Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle, Simon’s wife and Jacqueline’s former friend

Armie Hammer ... Simon Doyle, Linnet’s husband and Jacqueline’s former lover

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Official Trailer | Death on the Nile | 20th Century Studios

Armie Hammer's Award for Call Me By Your Name