Bobby Riley (Pete Jones), an Irish Catholic, is trying to come out to his three brothers, one of whom is a priest, with the help of his well meaning but interfering sister. The 2004 film chronicles his attempts to come out and his attempts to put it off at the urging of his sister, his lover, and his lesbian “beard.” We see the way his brothers (Nathan Fillion, Stoney Westmoreland, Dev Kennedy) deal with the situation (or not) in different ways. Not the greatest movie ever, but entertaining.
Skin and Bone (1996) follows Harry (B. Wyatt), Dean (Alan Boyce), and Billy (Garrett Scullen), three male prostitutes who work for a female pimp who keeps a tight reign on her boys. When they try to leave and go on to knew lives, they find themselves under her brutal thumb. If the DVD quality were a bit better, the eye candy might save the film, but as it is, it’s a bit long and a bit slow.
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green follows the dating trials and tribulations of the comic strip hero Ethan Green (Daniel Letterle). Ethan tries to find happiness through a string of boyfriends (David Monahan, Dean Shelton, Diego Serrano) with the help of his lesbian pal Charlotte and The Hat Sisters.
“X” (Derek Magyar) is the nameless gay prostitute who narrates Boy Culture. He’s built a business around 12 wealthy clients and a perfect little gay family with his two roommates Andrew (Darryl Stephens) and Joey (Jonathon Trent). “X” can’t bring himself to show his feelings for Andrew, but pours his heart out about it to Gregory (Patrick Bauchau), one of his older, wealthy clients. An enjoyable movie.
In Coffee Date, Todd (Jonathan Bray) is a straight guy whose free loading brother (Jonathan Silverman) sets him up with an internet dating ad. Getting to the coffee shop for the blind date, Todd realizes that his date Kelly (Wilson Cruz) is a guy and his brother placed the ad in the “men seeking men” section. Todd and Kelly get back at his brother by pretending to be a couple, but soon the joke spirals out of control as everyone in Todd’s life quickly becomes convinced that he’s gay and that his protestations of being straight are part of his being in denial. A cute independent comedy.
Shel Grandy (John Stamos) is a gay party planner in Wedding Wars. His brother (Eric Dane) is a speech writer for the governor and is getting married to the governor’s daughter (Bonnie Somerville) and they ask Shel to plan the wedding. When the governor makes a campaign decision to support a ban on gay marriage, Shel goes on a one man strike but is soon followed by gays and lesbians across the country. Sean Maher plays Shel’s lover.
In Deadly Skies Antonio Sabato Jr is an ex-military guy who was in charge of builiding a honking big space laser, but was afraid the military would use if for bad stuff. He told them he was gay to get kicked out. Rae Dawn Chong recruits him and his other half, Michael Boisvert, to get the laser up and running to zap an asteriod about to hit the earth. Although Boisvert shows all (and a VERY nice show it is) Sabato plays coy on the full frontal unlike his bare all in Testosterone.
The movie was also put out in a “straight” version without the gay content.
Head On follows young Ari (Alex Demitriades), a Greek-Australian closeted gay man, as he tries to figure out his life. He doesn’t really reach a good conclusion, but its an interesting movie as we get introduced to his dysfunctional family, his boyhood friend (a transvestite), and follow his drug use and sexual hookups.
