Wrecked (I) (2009)

Wrecked (I) (2009)

Directors: Bernard Shumanski, Harry Shumanski 
Writers: Harry Shumanski, Bernard Shumanski 
Genre: Drama 
Country: USA 
Language: English Year: 2009 Duration: 73 min



Stars: Forth Richards, Benji Crisnis and Theo Montgomery

Ryan (Forth Richards, I think, since much of the cast may be working under pseudonym) is a young wannabe actor. He has landed his first part in a play, but his happiness is short-lived as former boyfriend Daniel (Benji Crisnis, I think) shows up. Daniel is a drug addict, but Ryan takes him in (again) anyway, hoping to change him since he won't change himself. Daniel immediately goes back to his old habits, including introducing Taylor (no idea who played him) into the relationship. Ryan's life begins to spiral downward, and the film ends with a scene you could predict before you even popped the disc in the DVD player.

The three leads get nude, often. The Shumanski brothers wallow in Ryan's filthy world; you can almost smell the stale cigarette butts and warm wine in his squalid little house. However, the Shumanskis let their willing cast down. Some of the scenes are obviously improvised, and watching the young cast try to smoke and talk like adults before shedding their underwear is embarrassing to sit through. I began to mistake Ryan's constant naivete for mild mental retardation as Daniel goes through his drug addict and casual sex routine and elicits only tsk-ing and rolled eyes. The direction is sloppy (you can spot a cameraman in a mirror in one scene, and dates on cell phones never jibe), the editing is fair, and the music makes no impression whatsoever. The Shumanskis pad the film with unnecessary shots of the dudes waking up, getting their bearings, and dressing.

Richards plays Ryan like a drag queen channeling Bette Davis. He smokes too much, and swirls his hands, but shows no real emotion beyond mild contempt. I didn't care about him at all. Ryan demands Daniel get a job, yet we never see what Ryan does for a living. Crisnis is bland, never offering any reason why Ryan would fall for Daniel over and over again, despite getting hurt every time.

The only scenes that almost work are Ryan's play rehearsals. The play, as presented to the viewer, is a disaster. The director obviously wants to take Ryan to bed, his chain smoking assistant hates the world, and one of his co-stars is one of those Brando wannabes who must stretch and do annoying preparation for this piece of garbage he is "starring" in. Trust me, I have a theater background, and a lot of this is dead-on. Plus, these scenes provide a break from all the cocaine snorting and gay sex.

"Wrecked" joins the sad list of sexually explicit films that fail because of the script and direction, and not the sex. Move over, "9 Songs," "Shortbus," and almost everything Larry Clark has ever done, "Wrecked" and its truth-in-advertising title is here.

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Wrecked (2009)

• Directors: Bernard Shumanski, Harry Shumanski

• Writers:
  Harry Shumanski
  Bernard Shumanski

• Country:USA

• Genre:Drama

• Runtime:73 minutes

• Actors:
  Taylor

  Forth Richards
  Daniel

  Benji Crisnis
  Ryan

  Theo Montgomery
  Photographer Rodney

  Womack Daryl
  Kevin (as Peter Peterson)

  Peter Petersen
  Herself, Acting Teacher

  Beatrice Carina
  Actress

  Heidi Blissenbach
  Actor

  Garett Dragovitz
  Ryan

  Jake Casey

• Language:English

• Plot:An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on the right track. This course is quickly threatened with the sudden arrival of his sort-of ex, Daniel, who arrives at Ryan's door wanting a place to stay and offering the promise of a normal, loving relationship. But Daniel's drug addiction and attitude towards casual sex derail any hope for normalcy and soon ensnares Ryan in his own downward spiral. Handheld cameras, a hot young cast and a boldly upfront approach to sex combine to make Wrecked a unique film experience. Written by TLA Releasing

• Also known as:Défoncés (France - DVD title), Wrecked - ...abgef***ed (Germany - DVD title),

• Rating: (185 votes)

The Object of My Affection (1998)

The Object of My Affection (1998)

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Scenario: Stephen McCauley, Wendy Wasserstein
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 5.9/10

Actors: Paul Rudd, Kali Rocha, Jennifer Aniston, Lena Cardwell, Natalie B. Kikkenborg, Lauren Pratt, Hayden Panettiere, Lauren Chen, Liam Aiken, Alan Alda, Allison Janney, Tim Daly, Janet Zarish, Ellen Tobie, Virl Andrick

Description:
Ovaj film sam pogledao danas na Hrvatskoj RTL televiziji! Slatko sam se nasmijao situaciji kada se trudna riba zaljubila u slatkog gay momka! Pa zar ne zna da je taj tip samo pijan može kresnuti?
O toj situaciji ne mogu pisati iz svog ličnog iskustva jer sam do svojij tridesetih godina svaku ribu koja bi se "zaljubila" u mene kresnuo! Ali većina 100 postotnih pedera nemože ni zamisliti da zavuče svoj cjenjeni penis u tu "odvratnu vlažnu rupetinu" Valja misle da će im ga trajno progutati!
No šalu na stranu, poznat vam je termin Fag Hag. Označava curu koja voli pedere. Često ih toliko vole da ih pobrkaju sa pravim muškarcima. Pa onda krenu u akciju "preobraćenja" Naravno svaku pokušaj da od pedera napravite str8 lika je uzaludan! Ne odnosi se na bisex ljude.
Poneki peder bi i uspio da obavi snošaj sa ženom samo u prisustvu još jednog muškarca, najbolje da mu ga nabije u dupe dok kara ribu! Pisac ovih tekstova je i to probao!:)
Ova romantična komedija, ukoliko je još niste gledali dodiruje baš tu temu! Dva sata će vam brzo proći!

RTL.hr

Susret Georgea i Nine brzo završava zajedničkim zaključkom: oni su stvoreni jedno za drugo - ako se zanemari mala sitnica, da je George (Paul Rudd) homoseksualac. Iako je trudna s drugim muškarcem, Nina (Jennifer Aniston) ne planira nastaviti zajednički život s ocem svoga djeteta, već poziva Georgea da bude njezin cimer. George prihvaća Ninin poziv, budući da je i sam nedavno izašao iz nesretne veze, i postaje Ninin najbolji prijatelj. Iako je Georgeovo seksualno opredjeljenje uvijek prisutna zapreka, situacija dobiva dodatnu težinu kada se George zaljubi u mladoga glumca (Amo Gulinello)...
Nakon uspjeha „Prijatelja", filmska karijera Jennifer Aniston nije ostala zanemarena. Nastupivši prvo u niskobudžetnom hororu „Vilenjak", lijepa je Jennifer potom zaredala romantične komedije, da bi se potom okušala i u izvrsnoj drami „Dobra djevojka". U „Predmetu obožavanja" Jennifer Aniston romantično je povezana s epizodistom iz „Prijatelja", Paulom Ruddom, u intrigantnom zapletu koji se dotiče složenih veza izraslih iz prijateljstva. Nimalo jednostavan zadatak uprizorenja niza dramskih situacija, koje bilježe suptilno mijenjanje jedne prijateljske veze, izvrsno je odradio cijenjeni britanski redatelj Nicholas Hytner.
George Hanson (PAUL RUDD) is a preschool teacher and Nina Borowski (JENNIFER ANISTON) is a community center counselor who meet at a party hosted by Nina' pompous stepsister, Constance Miller (ALLISON JANEY) and her literary agent husband, Sidney (ALAN ALDA). After talking with George's boyfriend, Dr. Robert Joley (TIMOTHY DALY), Nina drops the bombshell that he's planning to break up with George.

Needing a place to live, George agrees to move into Nina's spare bedroom, a fact that her lawyer boyfriend, Vince McBride (JOHN PANKOW), can't stand because he wants to move in with her. Soon, Nina and George become best friends, and both agree to let the other lead their own personal lives. When Nina announces she's pregnant by Vince, however, she tells George that she wants him to help raise the child instead of Vince whom she can no longer stand. Although reluctant at first, George agrees after sensing that this might be his only chance at fatherhood. Eventually, the two begin to become attracted to each other.
Yet, when George gets a call from Joley, his attraction toward men is rekindled, and that's further strengthened after he meets Paul James (AMO GULINELLO), a young theater student who lives with an older theater critic, Rodney Fraser (NIGEL HAWTHORNE). Soon George and Paul become an item, much to Nina and Rodney's collective dismay. As Nina's pregnancy continues, she must decide between raising the child alone, with Vince, or to continue pursuing George who may or may not be there for her.

Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009)

Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009)

Director: Glenn Gaylord
Scenario: Phillip J. Bartell, Q. Allan Brocka
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 5.1/10

Actors: Rebekah Kochan, Daniel Skelton, Chris Salvatore, Michael E.R. Walker, Julia Cho, Mink Stole, Leslie Jordan, John Stallings, Maximiliano Torandell, Sumalee Montano, Cristina Balmores, Rick D'Agostino, Tabitha Taylor, Greg McKeon, Ryan Adames

Description:
Serijal romantičnih komedija Eatin Out se nastavlja. I treći dio ove priče iako malo dugačije koncipiran drži se prepoznatljive formule:

2 pedera+1 str8 ( fag stag ) + 1 ( ili 2) fag hag = Eating Out.

Naravno uz potpunu izmjenu glumaca u odnosu na predhodna dva dijela.
Sve u svemu stare boljke oko loše glume nisu riješene, tako sve izgleda kao neki školski skeč u dramskoj sekciji srednje škole!
Da nema ove Tiffani koja sa ovim fag stag str8 momkom pokušava da pomogne dvojici srodnih pedera da ostvare romantičnu vezu, film bi bio poptuna glumačka katastrofa.

Ali ako zanemarimo ozbiljni glumački nedostatak, film je odličan za pogledati ga tokom nedeljnog poslijepodneva. Uz obilje provokativnih scena i par komičnih situacija nasmijaćete se kako su se dva pedera pomirila uu bukvalno rečeno jedan str8 kurac.
Jadni str8, gay friendly momak nije ni sanjao da će mu dva pedera zajednički tako dobro popušiti kitu!
Da li ste znali za izraze fag hag i fag stag?

Fag hag je riba koja ima za najboljeg prijatelja pedera. Uostalom večina pedera ima i po neku prijateljicu. Sa njom dijele sve što im se dešava u životu i prema njoj se ponašaju kao str8 momak prema str8 momku. Fag hag je izraz nastao u USA kao pogrdan naziv , a danas se u gay komuni odomaćen i prihvatljiv izraz za najboljeg ženskog prijatelja!

Fag stag je str8 momak koji ima za najboljeg prijatelja gay momka. Ponekad i izađe sa njim u gay klub kako bi mu pomogao da "navata" neki zgodan komad ili da se dočepa fag hag ribe!
Dosta je bilo edukacije, sad gledajte film!

Tiffani and her friend Casey try to lure the gorgeous Zack with a phony online profile using the image of Tiffani’s buff ex, Ryan… which works fine until the real Ryan shows up. Only through some fancy footwork, advice from his Aunt Helen and mentor Harry, and a daring sexual escapade can Casey figure out how to set things right and perhaps even find the love he’s been seeking.


Absolutely essential, Eating Out: All You Can Eat is the story of Casey, a naive new arrival in West Hollywood, and his misadventures trying to score a date with the super-hot Zack. Filled with disgustingly hysterical jokes, EA3 is a rare breed, it works as both a romance and a sex comedy.
A raunchy sex comedy or a gay romance, however you see this third entry in the highly successful series, it’s a wonderful film, filled with laughs, hot guys and a beautiful love story. Beside the requisite dirty jokes, director Glenn Gaylord and writer Phillip J. Bartell developed this story as a love story, a gamble that paid off big-time. Sexy temptress/fag hag Tiffani (Rebekah Kochan reprising her role) and her boyishly cute friend Casey try to lure the buff and sweet Zack with a phony online profile using the image of Tiffani’s buff ex, Ryan. That works fine until the real Ryan shows up and chaos ensues. Only through some fancy footwork, advice from his Aunt Helen (Mink Stole) and mentor Harry (Leslie Jordan, “Sordid Lives”), and a particularly photogenic hook-up, can Casey figure out how to set things right and date Zack. Besides the gay icons in the film, Eating Out: All You Can Eat introduces six openly gay actors in lead roles including: Daniel Skelton, Chris Salvatore, Michael Walker, John C. Stallings (“The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agency”), Maximiliano Torandell, and Rick D’Agostino.
Taking inspiration from the classic screwball comedies of the thirties, the writers and directors have taken the decades-old formula of mistaken identities and turned it on its head and brought the concept into the twenty-first century. Judging by the ecstatic crowd reaction at the screening we were at, Eating Out: All You Can Eat is a major hit — and even better than the second edition.

Priest (1994)

Priest (1994)

Director: Antonia Bird
Scenario: Jimmy McGovern
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Year: 1994
Duration: 98 min | Argentina:98 min
Rating: 7.1/10

Actors: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson, Lesley Sharp, Robert Pugh, James Ellis, Christine Tremarco, Paul Barber, Rio Fanning, Jim R. Coleman, Bill Dean, Gilly Coman, Fred Pearson, Jimmy Gallagher

Description:

Volim ga, želim da je stalno pored mene, je li to grijeh?
Ako ste sveštenik onda je zasigurno taj grijeh još veći!

Biti gay, a biti svešenik za crkvu definitivno nije nešto što bi trebalo biti u božjoj milosti.
U božjem oprostu ima mjesta za svaki grijeh, a svako iskupljenje ima svoju cijenu. To zna svaki hrišćanin i to nije diskutabilno sa stanovišta vjere.
Diskutabilno je da li je ljubav između dva muškarca grijeh? Ima li crkva pravo da pogriješi i može li priznati grešku staru hiljadu i više godina?
Ako je bog učinio da ljubav bude pokretač čovjeka i najjača snaga čovječanstva, da li je onda svaka ljubav vrijedna poštovanja? Ako je iskrena i čista ma kojem obliku bila ispoljena, ljubav je nešto što može biti samo dar od Boga.
Sdruge strane crkveni fanatici ljubav između dva muškaraca pripisuje sotoni, zaboravljajući da Sotona nije u stanju da podari bilo kakvu ljubav, već samo mržnju, bijes i jad.
Greg Pilkington je katolički sveštenik koji dolazi u parohiju da zajedno sa Ocem Matthewem okuplja ljude u vijeri i propovjeda ljubav prema bogu i crkvi. Zatiče Oca Matthewa sa ženom i ošto ga prekorijeva što je prekršio zavijet celibata. Međutim Greg i pored toga ostaje tolerantan prema Matthewu i njegovo sagrešenje oprašta.
Ono što Grega dovodi u istinsko iskušenje je ispovijed djevojčice Lise koja mu otkriva da je njen otac seksualno zlostavlja. Ispovijed je nešto što prema crkvenim zakonima mora ostati tajna, pa ma kako teška bila. Greg koji se lomi da prekrši zavijet ćutanja uz nebrojene molitve bogu da spasi malu Lisu patnje i sam podliježe neoprostivom grijehu! Skidajući svešteničku odoru odlazi u gay barove i u jednom od njih upoznaje protestanta u kojeg se iskreno zaljubi.
Za tvrdokorne katoličke crkvene pristaše ovo je dovoljno da cijela filmska priča sagori na lomači.
Međutim realan život nam nudi opciju da prosudimo šta je u svemu tome istinski grijeh, a šta ne! Voljeti muškarca to zacijelo nije, a ne učiniti ništa da se prekinu patnje male Lise u srcima većine ljudi ipak jeste!
Dileme, osijećaj bespomoćnosti, griža savijesti i nedozvoljena ljubav prema muškarcu su emocije koje će nas pratiti kroz cjeli film i nametnuti nam da preispitamo sami sebe i pomjerimo granice između dobra i zla ali i grijeha i blagoslovljenog življenja!
Film me je na trenutak vratio u vrijeme kad sam se zadnji put vidio sa voljenom osobom. Ovaj poslijednji balkanski rat je uspio da nas razdvoji i nametne nam sopstvena pravila. Iako sam ja pravoslavac , a on katolik , sjedeli smo u istoj crkvenoj klupi i molili se da naša ljubav pobijedi sve strahote i iskušenja oko nas!
Nakon što smo sa suzama u očima izašli iz crkve, uputili smo se na autobusku stanicu gdje su nas čekali autobusi koji su nas zauvijek razdvojili! Iz tog iskustva sam naučio da je ljubav jedini razlog zbog kojeg se treba odricati i boriti. Voljeti nekoga je najsvetije i najljepše u našim životima!

 

PETER STACK, Chronicle Staff Critic

Because film by its very nature is steeped in images of the real world and oriented in action, it has trouble capturing a sense of the spiritual. But it is precisely that elusive sense, emerging from the mire of sin and guilt, that makes ``Priest'' an exceptional movie.

There has been a smattering of complaint about ``Priest,'' opening today at the Bridge in San Francisco (it's due later at other Bay Area theaters) from conservative Roman Catholics. The complaint seems misplaced. This powerful drama looks at the tortured soul of a gay priest and comes up with a curiously inspiring statement about faith and morality.
``Priest,'' from Britain's Antonia Bird (``Safe''), won the Audience Prize at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Set in inner-city Liverpool, it stars the hot young British actor Linus Roache as the Rev. Greg Pilkington, a dutiful, idealistic diocesan priest assigned to a tough parish to replace an older clergyman who has lost his marbles because of the pressures of working in grim, poor neighborhoods.

PARISH PASTOR
Full of a desire to do right in his new job, Father Greg hits a snag almost the minute he arrives. He discovers that the gregarious parish pastor, the Rev. Matthew Thomas (Tom Wilkinson, who plays Mr. Pecksniff in the PBS serial of Dickens' ``Martin Chuzzlewit''), is living an essentially married life with the parish housekeeper, Maria, played by Cathy Tyson (``Mona Lisa'').
Tyson has one of the film's best lines when she steps forward to confirm that celibacy is no longer part of Father Matthew's calling.
This discovery opens a painful rift between the two men. Father Matthew is a progressive whose approach is to bend the rules to serve the wild cards of humanity. But young Father Greg is adamant that church doctrine, however severe, should be followed to the letter in service to God.
Greg's ideals are thrown into a spinning
hell of self-doubt and guilt after he dons a leather jacket to venture into a gay club and gives in to his sexual desire for a young man he meets named Graham (Robert Carlyle).
Things get worse when the next day a young girl confesses to Father Greg that she is being abused by her father. Bound by the seal of confession, and tormented by the evil around him and his guilt about his sexual identity, Greg's moral convictions begin to unravel. But he keeps his troubles to himself.

 

FAITH AND MORALITY
Fans of novelist Graham Greene may recognize a touch of the tortured discussions of faith and morality that crop up in his books -- at one point Greg weighs the agonies of his soul in a rambling speech during a seaside walk with his gay friend. But he's essentially talking to himself.
Roache plays the priest so deftly you get a rare sense of a man's inner struggle, and of his inability to ease up on himself because he takes his responsibilities as a clergyman so seriously. It's an amazing performance that makes utterly human a man's quest for spiritual truth while he tries to hide from the truth about himself.
This film is extraordinary for the themes it explores -- sometimes with delicious humor -- beyond the obvious. It's one thing to see a man struggle to find himself, another for a film to carry the fight to a luminous moment that brings that struggle into the larger world where differing visions of truths contend.
All of this is played out against a background of a working-class parish filled with strong characters who make their mark, for better or worse, in telling moments on the screen.
The movie becomes a fascinating glimpse at a vast subject -- intolerance vs. understanding. There's some preachiness in ``Priest,'' and yet you go away feeling the embrace of