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19 September 2015

West Hollywood Motel (2013)

West Hollywood Motel (2013)


Director: Matt Riddlehoover
Writers: Matt Riddlehoover, Ethan James
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 78 min



Stars: Matt Riddlehoover, Andrew Matarazzo, Amy Kelly, Phil Leirness








Director Matt Riddlehoover doesn't mind tweaking your expectations—delivering plenty of eye candy while he tries to deliver a message. In his last film, Scenes from a Gay Marriage, he included plenty of skin but also charming wit. Now he's back with a new sexy comedy that takes place in the various rooms of, as the title suggets, a West Hollywood Motel.
According to a press release, the characters include a medical student (Riddlehoover), his extrovert boyfriend (Andrew Callahan), an adulterous actress (Starina Johnson), her lover (Heather Horton), and a dutiful husband (Phil Leirness) whose wife (Amy Kelly) wakes to find she has a penis. It also  co-stars Jared Allman (Scenes from a Gay Marriage), Cesar D' La Torre (Logo's DTLA), Ben Phen (Interior. Leather Bar.), and newcomer Alec Houston Bell. While many people seem to be leaning toward the moody gay dramas about failed romances these days, there should still be room for these silly comedies about sex, love, and more.
Check out the naughty trailer below for a taste:


Source: OUT.COM

30 August 2015

The Art of Being Straight (2008)

The Art of Being Straight (2008)


Director: Jesse Rosen
Writer: Jesse Rosen
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 70 min
Year: 2008


Stars: Johnny Ray Rodriguez, Rachel Castillo, Jim Dineen









Variety Review by Dennis Harvey
Posted by JesseRosen on Mar 11, 2014 in A.O.B.S. Reviews, Reviews

“A low-key comedy high on charm and credible twentysomething observation, Jesse Rosen’s debut feature, “The Art of Being Straight,” stars the writer-director as a possibly-coming-out newbie in Los Angeles whose puzzling over his sexual identification isn’t helped by his jokily insensitive straight buds. Appealingly played, nicely executed pic has a shot at arthouse distribution in addition to select DVD/cable sales and further fest travel.
Twenty-three-year-old John (Rosen) has just moved to L.A. from New York, ostensibly “taking a break” from his longtime girlfriend. He moves in with college bro Andy (Jared Grey), whose pals incessantly do that kind of “That is so gay” banter that’s essentially harmless — unless you’re the only gay guy in the room. (Acknowledging there actually is a distinction, one eventually queries “Is it ‘gay’ like it’s lame or ‘gay’ like it’s homosexual?”)

A quiet, genial guy among these more boisterous types, John is hardly comfortable discussing his shifting Kinsey scale placement with them, and his new job as bottom-rung gofer at a major ad agency is fraught with sexual tension as a studly boss (Johnny Ray Rodriguez) barrages him with thinly veiled come-ons.
Meanwhile, lesbian friend Maddy (Rachel Castillo) suffers her own travails, questioning her relationship commitment with g.f. Anna (Emilia Richeson) while developing a crush on nice-guy neighbor Aaron (Peter Scherer). Her own low-rung job at an art gallery is made torturous by bitchy, pretentious co-workers and customers.
Maddy isn’t undergoing a major life change, just a wee bi-curious phase. John isn’t so much closeted as simply figuring himself out. His peers aren’t real homophobes, just guys talking typical guy-trash. Narrative developments feel true to an increasingly frequent real-world dynamic too seldom seen in drama: When gay guy (or girl) is just “one of the guys,” not the token “gay friend” or the straight woman’s non-threatening pal. Pic’s slice of post-collegiate L.A. life likewise feels casually on-target in portraying an aspirational milieu that’s more Silverlake than Beverly Hills or West Hollywood.”

26 August 2015

I Kissed a Girl (2015)

I Kissed a Girl (2015)
"Toute premiere fois" (original title)


Directors: Maxime Govare, Noémie Saglio
Writers: Maxime Govare (screenplay), Noémie Saglio (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Language: French
Duration: 98 min
Year: 2015

Stars: Pio Marmai, Franck Gastambide, Adrianna Gradzie, Lannick Gautry, Camille Cottin

 

 

Mladić imenom Jeremie jednoga se jutra budi pokraj zgodne šveđanke, zbunjen i u nevjerici, jer mu se tako nešto prvi puta dogodilo... 
Jeremie naizgled ima sve u životu, lijepog i zgodnog budućeg supruga Antoinea, najboljeg prijatelja sa kojim radi u zajedničkoj firmi i porodicu koja ga podržava. Ali nakon jednog zbunjujućeg seksa u njegov život ulazi i prelijepa djevojka po imenu Adna (Adrianna Gradziel).

Kako nju uklopiti u svu tu priču i šta će se dalje dogoditi pogledajte u ovoj smješnoj komediji koja ide u suprotnom smjeru od onoga na šta smo inače naviknuli.


Nije rijedak slučaj da gej zaluta u krevet sa nekom ženom. To su obično trenuci kojih se ponosni gej nerado sjeća. Ali šta ako vam se to dopadne? Još ako se i zaljubite u curu na koju vam se tak savršeno diže kita, onda je to zabrinjavajuća stvar.
Naravno za potrebe ove priče dešavaju se stvari koje u svakodnevnom životu baš i nisu realne. Ako ste u desetogosišnjoj vezi sa muškarcem i pri tome nikada u životu niste imali seks sa ženom, skoro je nemoguće da se nakon jednog slučajnog seksa sa prelijepom curom zaljubite do te mjere da vas muškarci više ne privlače. Ali ako zanemarimo ovu glupost siguran sam da će te se nasmijati gledajući ovu komediju.

Waking up in an unknown apartment, next to a beautiful and charming Swedish woman could be the beginning of a perfect love story.

But maybe not for Jérémie (Pio Marmai, A Happy Event), who thought his life was already perfect, and was even about to get married—to his boyfriend.

 

Jérémie seems to have everything in life, a loving relationship of ten years, a caring and supportive family, and a crazy ladies-man best friend.

Yet his spontaneous meeting with the honest and funny Adna (newcomer Adrianna Gradziel) turns everything upside down. Charming Pio Marmai gives an endearing interpretation of a man upset in his certainties, and co-directors and scriptwriters Noémie Saglio and Maxime Govare show off their talent for comic situations and biting dialogue in their debut feature. In this light and sentimental comedy, the question of “coming back in” when you already thought you came out sets the scene for a hilarious mixing of clichés.

22 August 2015

Finding Mr. Wright (2011)



Finding Mr. Wright (2011)
  • Runtime:101 minutes
  • Actors:
    Clark Townsend
    Matthew Montgomery
    Eddy Malone
    Rebekah Kochan
    Pearce Wright
    David Moretti
    Phillip
    Jason Stuart
    Geoffrey
    Scotch Ellis Loring
    Cooper
    Edward Gusts
    TJ
    Rasool J'Han
    Goldie
    Keye Chen
    Gage
    Evan Miller
    Sam
    Cameron Cash
  • Plot:
    When an ambitious, serious-minded talent manager is forced to attend a wilderness therapy retreat weekend to save his disastrous, Hollywood-starlet client's career, he has no clue he is about to fall unexpectedly head over heels for her new, awkward, fun-loving life-coach.
    - Written by Jake Helgren
  • Rating: (176 votes)

30 June 2015

 
A Magnificent Haunting (2012)
 "Magnifica presenza" (original title)  

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek 
Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Federica Pontremoli
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy 
Language: Italian 
Duration: 105 min
Year: 2012

Site: Facebook

Stars: Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini             








Although it is a gay film, it does not focus on gay issue (love, cruelty of life, paradox of choices, etc.) but focuses on the normal life and thought of a human, his name is Pietro.   Pietro wants to be an actor, and endeavours to do all that he can to become one, but he just fails. When he has his own apartment and the upcoming dinner with his love, bitter truth reveals to the viewers what they do not know until then about Pietro, about the way he is obsessed with love. However, and also marvelously handling, the film immediately draws our attention to the other and also the biggest event in the film. Pietro meets ghosts. Little by little, Pietro finds way to understand the existence of the ghosts.
Also, bit by bit does he learn from those "artist" ghosts who were actors and actresses at their time. Will luck smile on Pietro? Viewers will decide for themselves when Pietro continuously "loses" the expected and "gets" the unexpected during his encounters in life.   At the end of the film, truth reveals about the death of the actors and actress, the reason why they become ghosts.
Again, tenderly tackling, the film draws our attention to the emotions and actions of Pietro when viewers observe his eyes when he watches another man who is his neighbor and also with those eyes at the final stage do viewers understand now there are things more important than just falling in love and living for oneself. The happy life is a life which gives away happiness to others', and the meaningful life is the life which is not born with meaningful things but has to create meanings for itself.  
Intelligent comedy with meanings, up and down contexts with purposes, real drama with truthful emotions and feelings, the film combines and diverts things into a tasty soup. Viewers' role is to sip it slowly and tenderly…  
Review by feliht on Orvel.me




22 June 2015

Love or Whatever (2012)

Love or Whatever (2012)


Director: Rosser Goodman
Writers: Dennis Bush, Cait BrennanGenre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 84 minYear: 2012





Stars: Tyler Poelle, Joel Rush, Jennifer Elise Cox, David Wilson Page, Michael Carbonaro








Like most Therapists who spend their working day advising people how to get their act together, Corey was not that hot at getting his own life on the right track. When he finally proposed to his muscle-bound airhead personal trainer boyfriend, Jon just freaked out and ran off into the arms (and bed) of the nearest woman. He had finally come of out of his gay closet to discover that he was bisexual, or maybe straight even.
Corey crying his eyes poured out his woes to his best friend who was his lesbian sister Kelsey, who insisted that there was only one way forward for him viz. Grindr. And soon as she had taught her brother how to use this Gay dating app. the first man he spotted was the Pizza delivery guy. Pete is hotter than hell: handsome, intelligent, articulate and is running the pizza store whilst caring for his sick Uncle the owner. He's a saint and too perfect to be true, but this is the movies after all.

The two men have a very successful date and geeky Corey now has another muscle-bound super-fit boyfriend, but before they can even think about even living happily ever after, they must get through a couple of melodramas first. It turns out that Melissa, the woman who the newly proclaimed bisexual Jon is dating, is also a client of Corey's and she insists on telling him every intimate detail of her new relationship not knowing that he was her predecessor. Eventually he tells her that his appointment book is full and she should go find another therapist.

Meanwhile Jon decides he really prefers Corey after all so he comes back and they immediately jump in to bed only to be caught in flagrento by saint Pete. Before they can even get their underwear back on, in storms Melissa who had given Jon a lift and had been waiting in the car outside. And just before they can all say scream 'How could you ? etc', then into this now rather packed house comes Kelsey to say that she is broke and her coffee shop business is in Foreclosure and she's leaving town.

It's a romantic comedy so you know that in this very lightweight fluffy piece it will work out in the end so everyone will have big smiles on the faces and a hot body to share their beds. Well most of them anyway. This one is cute, thanks mainly to a good cast, and not just the ex-underwear models who play two of the leads.
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by Roger Walker-Dack
Source: The Gay UK



28 December 2014

Pride (I) (2014)

Pride(2014)Pride (I) (2014)



Director: Matthew Warchus
Writer: Stephen Beresford
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Language: English, Welsh
Duration: 120 min
Year: 2014




Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West










Pride(2014)-6Kada je u martu 1984. godine vlada Margaret Tacher zaprijetila zatvaranjem 20 rudnika ugljena u Velikoj Britaniji rudari su stupili u štrajk koji je trajao skoro godinu dana.
U ranim danima štrajka Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer), mladi gej aktivist u Londonu nagovara nekolicinu svojih gay prijatelja da daju podršku rudarima.
Nakon što su prikupili malo novaca skupina od sedam gej muškaraca i jedna lezbijka u malom narandžastom kombiju dolaze u rudarsko mjesto Onllwyn kako bi se pridružili rudarima koji su u štrajku.
Film je rađen po istinitom događaju i na jedan komičan način prikazuje odnos i upoznavanje ljudi sa potpuno različitim načinom života. Srdačnost, neprijateljstvo, strah i nijemo čuđenje koje je dočekalo skupinu gejeva u malom mjestu nije zasmetalo da se postavi pitanje o prihvatanju solidarnosti pa makar dolazilo i od potpuno različitih ljudi.
Iako i jedni i drugi nose različite životne priče ujedinjuje ih borba protiv nepravde i želja da se izbore za svoje mjesto pod suncem.
Film je prepun komičnih scena koje upečatljivo odslikavaju nepoznavanje različitosti. Tako je jedna starija žena u razgovoru sa lezbijkom utvrdila da su gejevi vegetarijanci, dok su drugi oprezno pristupali upoznavanju.
Na kraju krajeva kada se savlada početni strah od nepoznatog dolazimo do činjenice da smo svi ipak samo ljudi sa emocijama, stahovima i nadanjima za bolji život.


Pride(2014)-5Pride is a 2014 British LGBT-related historical comedy-drama film written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus. It was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm award. Writer Stephen Beresford said a stage musical adaptation involving director Matthew Warchus was being planned.
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to accept the group's support due to the union's public relations' worries about being openly associated with a gay group, so the activists instead decided to take their donations directly to Onllwyn, a small mining village in Wales, resulting in an alliance between the two communities. The alliance was unlike any seen before but was successful.
PrideMennaTrusslerImeldaStauntonDominicWestLizWhiteLSCBSFilms“Pride” is brilliantly entertaining just as it is, so I trust that no one connected with the film will be insulted if I say that, despite the existence of shows with similarly stirring themes, like “Billy Elliot” and “Kinky Boots,” the story would make a terrific musical. In truth, the movie is halfway there already. Beresford and the director, Matthew Warchus, bracket the tale with gay-pride marches in London in 1984 and 1985, but, in general, the picture is short on politics and historical context (there’s almost nothing about the strike itself) and long on comedy, sentiment, and music. As the Londoners imagine entering a mining town, they joke about what they might say to the inhabitants. “May I inquire about your communal baths?” is one gambit. But they sober up when they meet the strikers, who are defiant but very much in need of help. These early meetings have the wariness of two species confronting each other in a marsh. Some of the younger miners, disgusted, want nothing to do with the gays. An elderly woman with a soft face musters her courage and says to a lesbian, “That can’t be true, can it? You’re all . . . vegetarians?” The Londoners are smart, self-deprecating, ironic, and sometimes furious about their own wounds; the miners and their wives and widows can be hearty, even cheery, but, just below the surface, they carry a lifelong bitterness. The two groups are fused by anger and divided by virtually everything else. -  DAVID DENBY in The New Yorker
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24 December 2014

The Skeleton Twins (2014)

The Skeleton Twins (2014)The Skeleton Twins (2014)




Director: Craig Johnson
Writers: Craig Johnson, Mark Heyman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 93 min





Stars: Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson







The Skeleton Twins je odlična i drama i komedija koja će vas iskreno i nasmijati i ratužiti.
Maggie Dean (Kristen Wiig) dobija poziv iz bolnice u San Francisku da je njen brat Milo (Bill Hader) pokušao samoubistvo, ali da je dobro. Odlazi po njega i nagovara ga da jedno vrijeme provedu zajedno kod nje u NY city, gdje živi sa mužem.

29-skeleton-twinsMilo odlazi kod nje i polako upoznaje sestrin život koji spolja izgleda prelijepo ali suština je da se njen život vrti u gomili laži i prevara prema mužu.
Milo, koji je gay, glumac u pokušaju koji je pokušao samoubistvo zbog nezadovoljstva svojim životom, neuspjehom da se afirmiše kao glumac i uzaludnom potragom za srodnom dušom uviđa da se njegova sestra blizankinja vrti u krug tražeći sebe u braku koji pokušava da održi i njene strasti za nekim novim kurcem koje pronalazi kod raznih instruktora ronjenja, kuvanja itd. Uporedo sa svojim seksualnim izletima muža drži u uvjerenju da sa njim želi djecu i sretan porodičan život.
skeleton7Nasuprot tome Milo želi da rasčisti ostatke iz prošlosti i sastaje sa profesorom koji mu je uzeo nevinost kada je imao 15 godina, ali i dalje glumi str8 porodičnog čovjeka.
Kako su Maggie i Milo emocionalno jako povezani njih dvoje mogu iskreno da pričaju o životu, nadanjima i željama, pa i o onim stvarima koje ne mogu da podjele sa drugima.
Film je za svaku preporuku i ostavlja nas da razmišljamo  da li živimo onako kako bi željeli ili samo glumimo.

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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
 skeleton6As “The Skeleton Twins” deftly glides between drama and comedy, it peels away layers of personal history in the lives of its troubled main characters, twin siblings estranged for a decade who share an eerie emotional synchronicity. At the very moment Maggie Dean (Kristen Wiig), a dental hygienist in upstate New York, is about to gulp a lethal fistful of sleeping pills, she receives a call informing her that her brother, Milo (Bill Hader), a failed actor in Hollywood, is in the hospital after slashing his wrists.
Suicidal tendencies may run in the Dean family; their father killed himself when they were teenagers. Their mother (Joanna Gleason, in a brief, amusing cameo) is a grandiose New Age-spouting narcissist with impenetrable emotional armor.
skeleton3Maggie, a dutiful sister, reluctantly makes a place for Milo in the home she shares with her husband, Lance (Luke Wilson), a happy-go-lucky jock. And the peeling begins.
The movie, directed by Craig Johnson (the tiny indie “True Adolescents”) from a screenplay he wrote with Mark Heyman (a writer on “Black Swan”), is keenly attuned to the bonds of siblings, especially twins. If countless movies about brothers and sisters reveal common family traits, “The Skeleton Twins” is subtler than most in evoking a mutual sympathy that might be called a cellular understanding.
Being so completely simpatico has its good and bad sides because the person who best understands you can also inflict the most painful emotional wounds. After working closely together on “Saturday Night Live,” Ms. Wiig and Mr. Hader suggest that kind of intuitive connection, even when their characters here are at loggerheads.
skeleton5Lance, an unflappably optimistic and confident outsider, is aware of Maggie’s instability, which he takes in stride, cheerfully referring to her moods as “land mines” that he has no problem navigating. The three make an appealingly oddball little family once Milo, who is gay, lonely and not entirely comfortable with his sexuality, settles in.
“The Skeleton Twins” is a well-written and acted movie about contemporary life that doesn’t strain for melodrama and is largely devoid of weepy soap opera theatrics. A small, precise, character-driven vignette, it has no pretensions to make any kind of grand statement about The Way We Live Now.
That’s all the more admirable, considering that the wedge between Maggie and Milo involves a loaded subject, Milo’s former inappropriate relationship with a high school English teacher, Rich (Ty Burrell of “Modern Family”), who now lives with a girlfriend and has a son. “The Skeleton Twins” takes no stand on the affair, which haunts Milo to the degree that he seems obsessed with the still-closeted Rich, whom he looks up almost as soon as he arrives in town. Their too-brief scenes are fraught with tension and ambiguity and suggest that Milo was exploited, though he denies it.
Maggie has her own fraught sexual issues. Not in love with Lance or even strongly attracted to him, she is fair game for her Australian scuba-diving teacher (Boyd Holbrook). Secretive and weighed down by a deep sense of shame, she seems mired in a permanent funk.
What throws the glumness into sharp and welcome relief are inspired comic scenes in which Milo and Maggie regress and play together like children. Milo, who displays a streak of zany sarcasm, jokes about being “a tragic gay cliché.” When Lance announces that he and Maggie are planning to have children, Milo chimes in that he can’t wait to be “the creepy gay uncle.”
The movie transcends its mopey tendencies when the twins dress up hilariously for Halloween. And when Milo lip-syncs and cavorts to the Starship’s ’80s rock anthem “Nothing’s Gonna to Stop Us Now,” “The Skeleton Twins” soars deliriously into comic orbit.

12 December 2014

Lady Peacock (2014)

Lady-Peacock-2014-ccLady Peacock (2014)

Director: Jana Mattioli
Writers: Greg Dyrsten (writer and concept), Greg Jackson (contributing writer),
Jana  Mattioli (script editor), Joe Rosario (contributing writer)


Genre: Comedy, Romace
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 99 min
Year: 2014


Stars: Blanche Baker, Kc Comeaux, Joshua Cruz

Distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures

 

lp1A Drag-tastic new comedy by Mattioli Productions starring Eric Millegan (Bones; Dr. Zach Addy), Emmy Winner Blache Baker (Sixteen Candles), Andrea Verdura and Angela Metz (Flea Market Flip), NYC Drag sensation Dallas Dubois, Joshua Cruz (Big Gay Musical), Rachel Filsoof (Oxygen's Networks The Next Big Thing), Tym Moss from The Radio Show Artist Exposed, Elissa Goldstein (An Affirmative Act), Edvin Ortega (Orange is the New Black) and introducing numerous rising stars in the NY film  scene!!
 
Lady Peacock is a fun filled comedy full of love, rivalry, and enough sequins to sink a ship.
 
When Conner first meets newbie Devin, he feels an instant attraction for him. It is practically love at first sight! However, soon into the relationship Conner's nemesis,  Drag Queen, Adora, wants Devin all to herself. Conner soon realizes the only way to compete with a drag queen is to become a drag queen. With the help of his club friends, Conner must make it his mission to destroy Adora if he wants to win back Devin. This film has heart, laughter, love, hot guys, and fantastic performances.

01 November 2014

The Gays (2014)

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Director: T.S. Slaughter
Writer: T.S. Slaughter
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2013
Duration: 68 min

 

Webpage: http://www.thegaysmovie.com/buy.html

 

Stars: Frank Holliday, Flip Jorgensen, Mike Russnak, Chris Tanner

 

 

the-gays-1Film za koji se nebi moglo reći da je za svakog geja, a još manje za str8 ljude, posebno ne za one homofobične.
U suštini ovo je komedija koja na jedan prilično satiričan način opisuje savremeni gej način razmišljanja.
Zamislite da ste odrasli sa gej roditeljima koji vam umjesto klasične cucle davaju minijaturni dildo, da  eto ne bi ste plakali. Naravno uz sve to ide kompletan gej sleng i opis šta je dobro, a šta ne u normalnom gej životu.

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Bob ( travestit) i Rod imaju sinove Aleksa i Tomija koje treba lijepo vaspitati i od njih napraviti normalne i poštene gejeve, što priznaćete nije lako u današnjem pokvarenom str8 svijetu.
Iako je film zamišljen kao jedna dark komedija, ostaje da se zapitamo ima li istine u tvrdnji da se gej svjet pretvara baš u ono što smo odgledali u ovom filmu?


Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons -- Alex and Tommy -- advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!

The-Gays-Image-2-300Movie, which isn`t for every gay man, less for str8 people, especially for those homophobic. In essence this is a comedy, that in a rather satirical way describes the modern gay way of thinking.
Imagine that you grew up with gay parents who are giving you a miniature dildo instead of classical pacifiers, for not to cry. Of course, with all this going full gay slang anhigh44d a description of what is good and what is not in a normal gay life.
 
Bob (transvestite) and Rod Gay have sons Alex and Tommy, whoo need to be nice educated and make them normal and decent gays, what you can admit it is not easy in today's corrupt str8 world. While the film is conceived as a dark comedy, it remains to ask is there any truth in the assertion, that gay world is transforming into precisely what we saw in this movie?


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It's 1997 and handsome Alex Gay chats up a guy named Kevin in a gay bar in LA. Alex regales Kevin with tales of being raised as gay by his two sexually liberated male parents, one of whom is a transvestite named Bob. Alex and his gay younger brother Tommy's upbringing is revealed to us through a series of raunchy, twisted, and hilarious flashbacks.
- Written by T.S. Slaughter

More Reviews:
- IndieJudge
- Booksteve's Library
- Reviews by Amos Lassen
- Night Fever King

 

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19 September 2014

The Trip (2002)

The Trip (2002)



Director: Miles Swain
Writer: Miles Swain
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 95 min
Year: 2002



Stars: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Ray Baker








By DAVE KEHR
Published: May 9, 2003 - The New York Times

''The Trip,'' a first feature written and directed by Miles Swain, is a gay melodrama with a historical dimension. The title, meant to be taken on a few metaphorical levels, refers first and foremost to the personal journey of Alan Oakley (Larry Sullivan), who begins the film in 1973 as a straight, uptight Young Republican working for an establishment newspaper and who eventually finds happiness as an openly gay man working for a radical homosexual-rights organization called Out Loud.

The agent of Alan's transformation is Tommy Ballenger (Steve Braun), a Texas teenager who has moved to Los Angeles to work for gay rights. When Alan first meets him -- at a louche party organized by Peter Baxter (Ray Baker), an older entertainment lawyer -- Alan sees Tommy as a potential interview subject for his book, a conservative attack on gay rights that he plans to call ''The Straight Truth.''
Before you can say ''closet case,'' Alan and Tommy are in bed together, an occasion marked by much forced hilarity when Alan's parents, a retired Army officer (Art Hindle) and a former Las Vegas showgirl (Jill St. John, in a remarkably poised appearance), show up for a visit the morning after.

Alan and Tommy soon make a gratingly perfect couple, which rouses the envy of scaly old Peter. His cunning plan, worthy of Alexis Carrington at her worst, consists of forcing a friend to publish Alan's long-abandoned, long-repudiated manuscript anonymously. When the book immediately becomes a best seller -- it is now 1977, at the height of Anita Bryant's ''Save Our Children'' campaign -- Alan continues to hide his authorship (though surely one talk show appearance denouncing his own former self would have gained his movement considerable publicity), allowing Peter to inform the media.



Imagine the look of surprise on Tommy's face when one of those annoying ''Live at Five'' reporters points a microphone at him and demands, ''Are you aware that the author of 'The Straight Truth' is your roommate of the last four years?''
But wait, as they say in infomercials, there's more: you also get a set of Ginsu steak knives, in the form of a third act, set in 1984, that finds Alan living in resigned misery with the predatory Peter. He receives a message from an old friend telling him that Tommy, now living in Mexico, is dying of AIDS and would like to see his former lover one more time.
So here begins the literal trip in ''The Trip,'' as the reunited companions try to cross rural Mexico in a beat-up convertible, hoping to take Tommy back to Texas for some treatment. The trip involves committing a couple of major felonies, considered here -- as in so many Hollywood films -- as essential steps on the way to self-actualization (viz. ''Thelma and Louise'').
With its implausible coincidences, inelegant plot twists and minimally characterized characters, ''The Trip,'' which opens today nationwide, doesn't have much going for it apart from its basic sincerity and decency, which are evident. Mr. Swain himself might benefit from some of the loosening up he has prescribed for Alan; his subject may be gay, but his film never departs from the straight-and-narrow technique of a television movie. DAVE KEHR


23 February 2014

Date and Switch (2014)

ccDate and Switch (2014)


Director: Chris Nelson
Writer: Alan Yang (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2014
Duration: 91 min



Stars: Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope, Dakota Johnson, Nick Offerman, Gary Cole, Megan Mullally, Sarah Hyland, Brian Geraghty, Zach Cregger, Aziz Ansari





 

Date1Date and Switch je tinejdžerska komedija u kojoj se dva prijatelja dogovaraju kako i na koji način da izgube nevinost prije maturske večeri. Zgode i nezgode se ređaju sve dok jedan od njih ne prizna da je gej. I kako to biva u Americi str8 drugar ne želi da izgubi gej prijatelja i pokušava na sve načine da mu dokaže da se među njima ništa nije promjenilo sve dok stvari ne počnu da se komplikuju.
2Filmska priča kakvih je holivud snimio na stotine  u suštini je vrlo dosadan za staije gledaoce. Razlikuje se samo po poruci koju nosi, a to je da seksualna orjentacija nije bitna, bitno je kakav si kao čovjek.
Najupečatljivija scena je ona gdje otac pokušava da razgovara sa sinom dok se na monitoru kompjutera vrti gej pornić sa glasnim uzdasima tipa: “uh jebi me tvojim velikim kurcem” Sin zaklanja ekran, a otac mu govori da je spreman da ga podrži ma šta mu se desilo u životu.

Mene je podsjetila na jednog mog školskog druga kojemu je rođeni gej brat rekao da sam gej. Došao kod mene, pa izašli vanka, išli po kafićima i tek sutradan mi je rekao šta je čuo. Ja mu rekao da jesam gej i da to ništa ne mjenja među nama, a on me počeo bomardovati pitanjima koje ni pristojan peder nebi postavljao tipa: Boli li te? Zašto radiš to ako boli? Jesam li mazohista? kakvog je ukusa sperma? Kakvi mi se muškarci sviđaju?
Napih se dok sam odgovorio na sva ta silna pitanja i na kraju ga pitam: Oćeš da se ti i ja pojebemo? Nakon početnoš šoka prestao je da ispituje.

1High school seniors Michael and Matty have been best friends since 3rd grade. Still virgins, they make a pact to help each other "score" before Senior Prom - but their mission suddenly takes an unexpected turn when Matty announces that he's gay.



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