Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions (1995) follows a case of detective Harry D’Amour (Scott Bakula). D’Amour, who has previously been involved with the supernatural, heads from New York to LA to track a man suspected of insurance fraud. Along the way he stumbles into an occult battle that started 13 years before. He’s hired by the wife of Swann, the world’s most famous magician, to protect him from from the cult that surrounded the evil magician he helped defeat.

The movie is not bad, plenty of blood, plenty of guys running around scantily clad. Lots of scenes with Scott Bakula without a shirt. What more could you want?

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Found some Ben Browder on You Tube:

The 24th Day (2004) finds Tom (Scott Speedman), a straight guy who gave in to his curiosity, seeking revenge on Dan (James Marsden), the one night stand he believes infected him with HIV. Tom handcuffs Dan in his apartment and takes a blood sample to confirm his suspicions.

Originally a play, it makes a good movie and is well acted as the captor and captive debate their case with one another. Tom is determined to carry through and Dan tries to use logic, lies and charm to get free. The only disappointment is that you’d figure with two majorly hot guys in a movie that centers around their having had sex, at least one of them would get their shirt off.

In 200 American (dollars, that is), Conrad (Matt Walton), a gay executive, has been dumped by his boyfriend and turns to Ian (Sean Matic), an Australian hustler, for sex and companionship. Infatuated with the young man, Conrad hires him to be a photographer’s assistant at his company in exchange for sex a couple of times a week. Ian’s employment doesn’t sit well with others in the company at first, but then he catches the eye of the art director (Anthony Ames) he’s assigned to work for (and who doesn’t know about his career as a prostitute).

A gay, 40-something professor (J. Andrew Keitch) is in an accident and wakes up to find himself transported back to his senior year in high school. This time around, it’s an alternate universe where eveyone is gay; including his high school crush (Tim Hammer). Of course, never one to be normal, our hero falls for a girl. Ah, gay high school, complete with bullying of heterosexual boys. . . . Almost Normal.

Interesting concept, not the best movie ever, though there’s some decent eye candy. I guess it’s supposed to make straight people think, but the message is delivered with a 2 x 4. The short film “Shame No More” was better delivering the same message.

Alan (Larry Sullivan) is a young Republican in the halcyon days of Richard Nixon’s regency. He meets Tommy (Steve Braun) a gay activist he tries to interview for a book about the gay lifestyle of the time. Naturally, Alan falls for Tommy and their relationship comes to be after Alan has already turned in his anti-gay book to his publisher. Thinking the book will never be published, Alan doesn’t tell Tommy. And then along comes the hate mongering, she-demon Anita Bryant and the publisher dusts off the book. Many years later, they reunite and take the road trip they’d discussed a little too late.

Jill St. John puts in a small but hilarious performance as Alan’s accepting mother.

The Trip (2002)