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DVD REVIEW | In Bloom
★★★★ | In Bloom This is the rather gritty story of a hip very young gay couple in Chicago’s ‘Boystown’ coming to terms with how tough one’s first love can be. Kurt is a small time drug dealer who supplies pot to his peers, whilst Paul his boyfriend of two years has a dead-end job […]
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FILM REVIEW | My Straight Son
★★★★ | My Straight Son Diego a successful fashion photographer in Caracas has commitment phobia but the very night he is about to tell Fabrizio his Doctor boyfriend that he will move in with him after all, is the same night that Fabrizio is the victim of a vicious fatal gay bashing. It is also […]
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FILM REVIEW | Boys In Brazil
★ | Boys In Brazil This painfully unfunny dramedy starts and ends with a group of four closeted gay friends at São Paulo’s Gay Parade, one of the largest in the world. As the Parade ends one of them is gay-bashed and after they beat the thugs off, the four make a pact that by […]
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FILM REVIEW | Angel With Tethered Wings
It seems like Steven Vasquez the director/writer/cinematographer/editor wants to corner the market in low-budget gay horror mystery movies the rate he is turning them out these days. This new one like his last recent one (Errodity) is essentially another piece of soft-core pornography, but this time with an extended and tangled plot, and where the […]
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FILM REVIEW | Triple Crossed
★★ | Triple Crossed After he had finished his posting serving in the military in war-torn Afghanistan during which time he witnessed his best friend being killed, Chris Jensen is struggling to adapt back into civilian life. Unable to find a job, as no one seems prepared to want the services of a somewhat damaged […]
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FILM REVIEW | Private Romeo
★★★★★ | Private Romeo Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an exercise and they are ordered to carry on with their studies regardless. In the English Literature Class, they are studying ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the two young men […]
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FILM REVIEW | Broken Gardenias
★ | Broken Gardenias Jenni is a misfit and a nerd. She is so clumsy that she breaks most of the plant pots at the nursery where she works and that really annoys her boss. Her self-absorbed roommates all but one ignore her, and she is totally friendless. It gets even worse after she is […]
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FILM REVIEW: From Beginning To End
There is good taste, and then there is incest. It’s surprising that we can sit and watch a lot of suspect and even deviant behaviour amongst (consenting) adults on the silver screen, but this is one topic that we feel is just a tad too icky even for us. Especially when it comes in the […]
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FILM REVIEW | Blackmail Boys
When gay art student Sam ‘came out’ to his parents they disowned him and cut him off without a cent. Faced with high tuition fees, rent and living expenses to find in Chicago, he resorted to turning tricks as it pays so much better than any other manual labour. However when Aaron his long-term long-distance […]
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FILM REVIEW: Drink Me
★★★ | Drink Me Young gay couple James and Andy seem to have everything, especially an extremely busy sex life. Life in the rather comfortable house they share couldn’t be more perfect and James wants to make it all even more permanent by getting down on his knees and proposing marriage. However timing is everything […]
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FILM REVIEW | Brotherhood
★★★★★ | Brotherhood Lars is a young Danish soldier who is resentful because he has been thrown out of the Army after being accused of making a pass at some of his men. Frustrated at being back home with his pushy interfering mother, and at a loose end and unsure of where his life is […]