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DVD: “4th Man Out,” “Confessions,” “Vampires: Lucas Rising,” & More!

DVD: “4th Man Out,” “Confessions,” “Vampires: Lucas Rising,” & More!

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Being yourself is no easy feat, even for gay vampires in this week’s home entertainment line-up!

An ordinary Joe comes out to his three best friends and shakes things up in 4th Man Out, while sixteen gay men share their deep secrets, identities, and struggles in anthology film Confessions. Finally, a pair of immortal vampire lovers try to find each other again in Vampires: Lucas Rising (above).

How about some details and trailers (and fangs!)? Scroll down!
4th Man Out

($29.95 Blu-ray, 24.95 DVD; FilmRise)

A quartet of upstate New York blue collar friends, Chris, Ortu, Nick, and Adam, find their bond shaken up when the latter comes out of the closet during a boozy birthday. What are straight bros to do when they realize their sports-loving, beer-chugging, girl ogling pal is playing for the other team? Eventually, with help from Chris’ newest squeeze, they decide to assist him in all things queer… It’s a coming out dramedy, a rare bird in this post-Looking entertainment world!

 

Confessions

($24.99 DVD; TLA)

What goes on in the minds of gay men? Writer/director Mark Bessenger lets sixteen protagonists share their secrets, songs, and sordid desires in this compilation of as many vignettes that vary wildly in genre and style. Heck, there’s a puppet too, while familiar faces – including Peter Stickles of The Lair and Dylan Vox – appear. A very different watch for sure!

 

Vampires: Lucas Rising

($24.99 DVD; Ariztical)

A sequel to 2011’s Vampires: Brighter in Darkness, produced during the height of both Twilight and True Blood mania, sees homo vampires Lucas Delmore and Toby Brighter struggle to reunite after the latter had been snatched away. Can Lucas locate and save Toby, while at the same time thwart the diabolical plans of Queen Mother of Vampires, Lilith? Sure to satisfy your thirst after True Blood left the airwaves… and with a whole lotta gay to boot!

 

ALSO OUT:

 

Sing-Street-3DSing Street

 

The Boss

 

Hardcore Henry

 

Criminal

 

Elvis & Nixon

 

 

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TV Host Decrees Himself An “Ignorant Tool” For Telling Lame Transgender Jokes

TV Host Decrees Himself An “Ignorant Tool” For Telling Lame Transgender Jokes

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Mistakes were made, and subsequently atoned for. On Thursday morning, Australian television host Karl Stefanovic raised the ire of Today Show viewers with offhanded remarks about the transgender community, referring to them as “trannies.”

Stefanovic and his co-host Sylvia Jeffreys were discussing an odd incident involving Channel Nine journalist Christine Ahern, a cameraman, and a security guard, all of whom were embroiled in a confrontation with a transgender person on a Rio beach after she tried stealing from the crew.

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Jeffreys remarked that Stefanovic was “no stranger to the ways of the tranny” and said she had “fought off tougher trannies” before. He joined in kind, holding up a poster of actor Hugo Weaving in drag from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and claiming he might be the suspect police were searching for.

“We’ve got a confit (police sketch) done up and we know not all trannies look the same,” he said. “Is that the tranny there that we’re talking about, Hugo Weaving like?”

Now, he’s stepped forward to publicly apologize for those remarks, saying he often laughs at things he shouldn’t and that he “didn’t know the negative and deeply hurtful impact” of his comments.

“As we all know I can be a complete tool,” he said. “Yesterday I was worse, I was an ignorant tool.”

Related: How “Looking” Helped Jonathan Groff Love Being Gay

@karlstefanovic awesome job apologising and encouraging people to educate themselves about the power of language. Nice one!!!

— Indie Bag (@purpleseawater) July 29, 2016

Watch the apology, and decide whether you’ll forgive him or just be really difficult:

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