We first reviewed Eating Out last year during the London Lesbian Gay Film Festival. Available on dvd from the 20th of February from TLA Releasing, it's a must have for all gay boy dvd collections. Heard the cliché about the straight best friend who not only looks more gay than you, but decides to 'go gay' to see if he has more luck with girls? Well Q. Allan Brocka's first feature is the definitive film version.

Brocka is probably best known for his wonderful animated short series Rick & Steve about an animated Lego® couple.

In Eating Out we meet Kyle, young gay and unlucky in love. He lives with Caleb who is muscled, horny and despite all signs to the contrary, 100 per cent straight. Frustrated by his failure with the ladies, Caleb thinks he could win their affections by pretending to bat for the other side. A cunning plan but clearly not without risks.

When he meets a zany, gay boy loving woman called Gwen, he pretends to fancy her beautiful flatmate Mark to win her affections. And it looks as if his plan will pay off until he finds himself alone with Mark, a video and some Kleenex (we've all been there on many first dates!)

Confused? Don't worry. Aroused? You will be. Eating Out is uplifting, funny, and a Viagra induced hard-on of a film. We caught up with Allan Brocka in London, to talk phone sex, shagging the cast (not quite) and tits n' ass!

P: First things first, where on earth did you find the boys? Is there a factory line somewhere churning them out?

The boys were very hard— err, difficult to find. We put ads out everywhere and I asked everyone I knew. It resulted in a parade of hundreds of gorgeous boys reading lines and taking off their shirts. Sadly, most of them couldn’t act well. Fortunately I was lucky enough to find my cast among them. Each of the actors I used was my top (and only) pick. I would have died if I had to go with an alternate.

P: Have you gone "straight" to get in some straight boy's Calvins?

I’ve never gone straight for sex, but that’s because the circumstance never arose. I think for the right guy I’d do just about anything. So why wouldn’t a straight boy stray for the right girl?

P: If you had to pick one of the characters, who would you want to take out on a date and why? Caleb, Gwen, Kyle or Marc.

I would easily pick Marc. When I wrote him, I wrote my fantasy guy. Someone incredibly sexy, funny, artistically talented, and very openly and comfortably gay. He’s outgoing and fun, but shy and extremely vulnerable at heart. I’m in love.

P: SKY ONE has just finished showing PORNO VALLEY, what got you interested in tits and ass?

While PORNO VALLEY is the straightest thing I’ve ever done, it’s really got a fantastic gay appeal. It’s like SHOWGIRLS with more sex. These are the eight most popular women in porn and the rivalries are classic... plus, in the end they have to have a lesbian sex orgy. The show doesn’t reduce these women to tits and ass (too often), it really gets into their conflicts, hopes, dreams, and wardrobes. What could be gayer?

P: Describe "Eating Out"...

EATING OUT is a film about how far boys will go to get laid, gay or straight. It's a story close to my heart. It’s the college-popcorn-fluff comedy I always eagerly consumed, but never saw myself represented in. It’s my fantasy and guilty pleasure movie. It's my bust-a- gutt-laughing and drool-over-the-boys movie. It’s my date movie. Above all, it's another voice shouting out that queer youth have the same awkward, mushy, horny, romantic, lonely, funny, crazy, fucked-up friendships, fantasies, and romances as anyone else.

P: Are you into phone sex?
I’ve had mostly bad experiences with phone sex. I’m not really the talkative sort when it comes to sex. Maybe it’s the writer in me, but I feel compelled to make my responses more diverse than “oh yeah,” and I begin writing, which means not fucking. You’ll notice that Caleb says very little in the phone sex scene, which allowed him to get into the sex.