blog the hegemony » movies http://blog.thehegemony.org between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:25:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pornography: a Thriller http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/07/26/pornography-a-thriller/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/07/26/pornography-a-thriller/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:47 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=1360 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.

]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/07/26/pornography-a-thriller/feed/ 0 Law of Desire http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/03/06/law-of-desire/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/03/06/law-of-desire/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:08:31 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=1305 Antonio Banderas is Antonio Benitez in Law of Desire (La ley del deseo, 1987), a disturbed young man who stalks his favorite film maker Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela).  When Antonio’s affections aren’t returned with the fervor he hopes for, he sets out to elminate the competition.  We’re treated to a very brief nude, long shot of Banderas, but the film is much more generous with the “charms” of Poncela (NSFW).

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]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/27/little-ashes/feed/ 0 The Dying Gaul http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/20/the-dying-gaul/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/20/the-dying-gaul/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:02:04 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=1292 The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul, the movie, not the statue, has Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) a struggling young writer finally having a chance to sell his somewhat autobiographical script.  The complication is that the producer wants to replace the character of his dying male lover with a woman to make it more sellable.  Further complicating things is Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the bi-sexual producer, starting an affair with Robert. Then of course, Jeffrey’s wife, a former screen writer, becomes fascinated with Robert and starts stalking him anonymously in online chat rooms, eventually finding out more than she really wanted to know.

]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/20/the-dying-gaul/feed/ 0 Eating Out: All You Can Eat http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/05/eating-out-all-you-can-eat/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/02/05/eating-out-all-you-can-eat/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:45:12 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=1278 The third installment of the “Eating Out” series, All You Can Eat, continues with the confusion of who’s who with straight guys pretending to be gay for various reasons.  Casey (Daniel Skelton) comes to town and falls for Zack (Chris Salvatore).  When Casey is too shy to approach Zack, inveterate fag hag Tiffany (Rebekah Kochan) convinces him to meet Zack online and further urges using pictures of her ex-boyfriend and stripper Ryan (Michael E.R. Walker) in a fake profile to get to know Zack.  Then before Casey can make his move, Ryan comes back to town and the confusion begins.  Amusing with lots of skin.

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]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2010/01/30/1246/feed/ 0 Make the Yuletide Gay http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/20/make-the-yuletide-gay/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/20/make-the-yuletide-gay/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:56:45 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=814 Olaf ‘Gunn’ Gunnunderson (Keith Jordan) is out at college but straightens up when he heads home for Christmas break with his mid-western parents. Meanwhile, his boyfriend Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero) whose own parents go on a last minute cruise ditching him for the holiday, decides to surprise Gunn by showing up unannounced, not realizing that Gunn isn’t out to his Christmas crazed mom (Kelly Keaton) and stoner dad (Derek Long). Make the Yuletide Gay is a great movie with a humorous look at coming out at Christmas time.

]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/20/make-the-yuletide-gay/feed/ 0 A Home at the End of the World http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/06/a-home-at-the-end-of-the-world/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/06/a-home-at-the-end-of-the-world/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:43:16 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=811 Bobby (Colin Farrell), Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and Clare (Robin Wright Penn) form an unconventional family. Jonathan is a gay man living in New York when his childhood friend / adopted brother Bobby comes to live with him and his roommate Clare. Clare loves Jonathan, Jonathan loves Bobby, and Bobby wants to make eveyone happy. Clare gets pregnant and the three go to Woodstock to raise the kid.

]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/12/06/a-home-at-the-end-of-the-world/feed/ 0 Trick or Treat http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/10/31/trick-treat/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/10/31/trick-treat/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:02:09 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=798 There’s a few horror movies that you don’t watch for the chills. Happy Halloween.

Wolves of Wall Street

William Gregory Lee (Dante’s Cove) stars in Wolves of Wall Street as a young man who comes to New York seeking his dream only to fall in with a pack of evil underwear models who are stock brokers by day and werewolves by night.

Voodoo Academy

Voodoo Academy (2000) is a soft porn horror flick in which wholesome, attractive young men are lured into a bible college (with all of 6 students) where they spend a lot of time in their underwear being subjected to weird rituals by the cute priest and the strange woman who run the place. Not much point, but lots of skin.

Leeches!

In 2003’s Leeches, we find that the steriod popping swim team has been spending time frolicking in the local pond where they’re getting sucked on by leeches. Of course, this makes the leeches grow huge and hungry for more tender, young hunks. Plenty of scantily clad, muscled young men in speedos and underwear. But none of them actually fast enough to outrun the leeches.

]]> http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/10/31/trick-treat/feed/ 0 Green Plaid Shirt http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/10/25/green-plaid-shirt/ http://blog.thehegemony.org/2009/10/25/green-plaid-shirt/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:40:12 +0000 Syzygy http://blog.thehegemony.org/?p=794 Guy (Kevin Spirtas) and Phillip (Gregory Phelan) meet at a garage sale where they are both looking at the same Green Plaid Shirt. The two start a relationship which has it’s rocky moments. Set in the late 1970′s, we find Guy contracting AIDS and have a bit of a debate on whether or not fidelity is intended for gay men, which never really gets resolved. And most of the story is told in flashbacks. For a first time director, this was probably not too bad, but a bit uneven.

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