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The Wolves of Kromer

Syzygy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:25:36 +0000

The small English village of Kromer is home to a pack of “wolves” living on the outskirts of society. The experienced wolf Gabriel (James Layton) takes the newcomer Seth (Lee Williams) under his wing and the two begin to fall for one another. But Seth is still questioning his “wolfishness” and strays. Meanwhile, a couple of scheming old women are plotting to murder the lady of the local manor for the inheritance. They blame the attack on the wolves which insites the preacher to hunt them down with a mob of irate townspeople at his back. And we find that just about anyone can have a tail.

The Wolves of Kromer (1998). Great movie, hard to track down but worth it.

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A Single Man

Syzygy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:15:39 +0000

Tom Ford’s A Single Man is an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel. It follows a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gayEnglish professor teaching in California. George’s lover Jim (Matthew Goode) was killed in a car accident leaving George alone save for his long time friend and fellow ex-patriot Brit, Charley (Julianne Moore). George spends this particular day saying goodbye to his life, finally appreciating the world around him. Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), one of his students, takes an interest in the professor and tries to befriend him sensing something is wrong. All in all a great film, well worth watching.

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Pornography: a Thriller

Syzygy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:47 +0000

Pornography: a Thriller revolves around the maybe, maybe not death of a 1980′s porn star in a snuff flick. Mark Anton (Jared Grey) was a famous porn actor who was semi-retired and gets offered a lot of money in the mid 1990′s to do a personal appearance for a fan who wants to interview him. When his agent tries to scam him out of the money, things go bad for Mark forcing him to do the interview he’d planned to skip. We then move to the present day where a writer Michael (Matthew Montgomery) is researching a book on gay porn. He ends up renting [with his is he real or isn't he lover William (Walter Delmar)]what may be the same apartment where the maybe snuff flick was filmed and finds an old video tape hidden in the wall. His quest to find answers to Mark’s fate drags him into weirder and weirder scenes. Finally, we come to the third tale of Matt Stevens (Pete Scherer), a present day porn star who decides to make a pornographic documentary of the Mark Anton story based on a dream he had, but then the dreams starts to take over. Apperances by Dylan Vox as Mark’s on screen partner and Steve Callahan as Matt’s producer.

Great movie, great cast.

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Blood for Dracula

Syzygy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:54:46 +0000

Blood for Dracula is the quasi-sequel to Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein. Udo Kier returns in the title role as a sickly Count Dracula on the prowl for “wirgins” to marry and take their blood so he can survive. Arno Juerging is again the servant of the title monster, but this time a little more assertive in handling his ailing master. Convinced by his servant to load up the coffin and head to Italy, the count stumbles upon a down at the heels aristocratic family with four daughters for him to choose from. Unfortunately for the count, Joe Dallesandro is a man servant on the estate who’s been seeing to it that some of the sisters no longer have virgin blood.

And this time around, we get Udo out of his shirt, too.

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The Big Gay Musical

Syzygy — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:12:50 +0000

The Big Gay Musical is the tale of an off Broadway play “Adam and Steve, Just the Way God Made ‘Em” and the actors who play the lead roles, Paul and Eddie. Paul / Gay Adam (Daniel Robinson) is going through a breakup with his boyfriend and trying to decide between monogamy and being a slut. Eddie / Steve (Joey Dudding) is a virgin looking for his first experience with a man and trying to figure out how to tell his religious parents not only that he’s gay, but the first big play he’s in deals with how God created a new Adam and a male companion Steve after he had to boot the original Adam (Ben Thompson) and Eve (Celina Carvajal) out of Eden. The movie’s great and the musical play it’s centered around is worth seeing on it’s own (check out the DVD extras). Brent Corrigan has a small role as a hustler Paul hires when he gets lonely for companionship.

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Dare

Syzygy — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:08:00 +0000

Alexa (Emmy Rossum) wants to be an actress, but finds herself paired in the school play with Johnny (Zach Gilford), who’s only taking drama because he was suspended from soccer and has no real interest in the project. Making things worse, a former student, now a well known actor (Alan Cumming), comes to see rehersals and compliments Johnny while telling Alexa she needs to get out and live a bit before she can be a real actess. Alexa sets out to seduce Johnny and then finds that her gay best friend Ben (Ashley Springer) has also seduced Johnny, who seems desperate for any affection he can get. In Dare, the two friends raise the relationship stakes and we find if Johnny can be shared or forced to choose.

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The DVD extras also include the oringinal short of “Dare” which centers around Ben (Adam Fleming) and Johnny (Michael Cassidy) and their encounter in Johnny’s swimming pool.

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Watch Out

Syzygy — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:06:21 +0000

Matt Riddlehoover is the ultra narcissitic Jonathan Barrows in Watch Out. We start with Jonathan’s bizarre teen years and his parents trying to get him to lose his virginity to a woman (while they film it) and we then follow him to a job interview at a community college where he’s trying to get a teaching job he feels is beneath him. His self absorption (he finds only himself to be sexually attractive) leads him further and futher into conflict with an offbeat world in the small town he’s visiting. Eventually, we learn of his more murderous side as he kills off those he sees as having wronged him. Lots of skin from Riddlehoover (warning: site NSFW), but sometimes the narration and pacing made me wish they’d just get on with things. A brief cameo from Peter Stickles as one of a couple Jonathan Barrows meets and offends in the town’s seafood restaurant.

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Y Tu Mama Tambien

Syzygy — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:02 +0000

Y Tu Mama Tambien follows Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) best friends who spend time flirting with an older married woman who ends up calling their bluff to take her to a fabulous beach. A beach neither boy knows how to find. The three take off in a battered old car and miraculously come across a beach that’s close enough. The three develop an offbeat relationship but things come to an end when the guys finally get a little too intimate with one another for their own comfort.

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Praxis

Syzygy — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:10:54 +0000

Brian (Tom Macy) is a confused young man trying to come to grips with the various aspects of his personality. He interacts with Joe (Andrew Roth) and a mysterious woman who may just be parts of his psyche. Slow in parts, a lot of the over long, lingering scenes could have been cut shorter or done away with. Interesting, but keep the remote with a fast forward button handy. The message of Praxis seems to be “avoid psychopharmacology.” And yes, there are some nude scenes. (Not that anyone cares about that NSFW.)

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Lust in the Dust

Syzygy — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:50:26 +0000

“Yea, though I walk through the . . . uh . . . shadow of Death Valley.” And so begins the Paul Bartel’s send up of spaghetti westerns, Lust in the Dust. With Divine as dance hall girl Rosie Velez, Tab Hunter as the mysterious stranger Able Wood, and Lainie Kazan as the local madame Marguerita, a group of oddball characters (including Cesar Romero and Geoffrey Lewis) search for the lost gold of Chili Verde. Well worth watching.

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