In Transamerica, Bree (Felicity Huffman) is a pre-op transexual who learns that she has a son with her college girlfriend who’s gotten into trouble. Her therapist won’t sign off on the paperwork for the final operation until she shows she can deal with this last bit of business from her “old life.” Bree travels to New York to meet Toby (Kevin Zegers) and drives with him cross county hiding the fact that she’s his father.
Bill (Derek Long) is a surgeon who gets struck by lightning in Socket (2007). He falls for Murphy (Matthew Montgomerty of Gone but Not Forgotten), a young intern who’s been caring for him. Turns out Murphy had also been struck by lightning and brings Bill in to a group of lightning strike survivors who like to plug in and turn on. Taking things to the next level, Bill invents a better way to get his electric fix and things spiral out of control.
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Guy (Matthew Burnett) works in a leather bar in a small town mopping floors and managing the drag show back stage. When the bar owner dies, leaving the bar to Guy, he finds himself on the wrong side of the town’s crazed lady preacher who wants to use the bar to rouse the rabble to give her the fame she needs for national TV. Meantime, Guy meets and starts to fall for Alex (Patrick Henderson) who just happens to be the preacher’s son returned to town. Theft has a few funny moments, it probably won’t end up at the top of anyone’s list, but wasn’t too bad.
In The Nines, Ryan Reynolds and a talented cast take on three separate roles that intertwine through the three segments of the movie. This movie was totally not what I was expecting, which made it even better. Reynolds is alternately an action movie hero, an apparently gay television “show runner”, and a happily married video game designer who’s stories brush one another in interesting ways. Also a lot of excellent DVD extras (which is where you get a clearer idea of some of what’s going on; the deleted scenes are a must watch).
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Not really any gay interest here beyond pure man-candy, as a 30 something life guard (Sam Elliott) goes through a midlife crisis while training a new lifeguard (Parker Stevenson). Lifeguard.
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The Lair is the vampire version of Dante’s Cove. The Lair gives us a coven of gay vampires chomping on all the cute, young guys in town. A young journalist (David Moretti) tries to find out why all the unsolved murders are happening, including an attack on his boyfriend who’s ended up in the hospital. Throw in a couple of gay porn idols (Colton Ford as the sheriff, Michael von Steel as a victim).
In East Side Story, Diego (René Alvaradois) is a closeted, young, Latino man working in his grandmother’s restaurant. He longs to get out on his own, but can’t seem to quite get himself to move on. As he realizes his boyfriend (David Berón) is determined to stay in the closet and his grandmother is not quite as clueless as she seems, he’s given the final push when his crazy aunt outs him to the restaurant staff. Meanwhile, a couple of gay men move in across the street and one of them (Steve Callahan) starts to fall for Diego but has problems leaving his lover (Cory Schneider) even though he’s miserable in the relationship.
Eleven Men Out is the story of Ottar Thor (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson). A football (soccer) champ in Iceland. He suddenly decides to come out during a press interview, causing havoc with his team, his father (who’s also the coach), his ex-wife, and his son. But at least it gets him moved from the back pages of the magazine to the cover.
Thrown off his professional team, he joins and amatuer one (which already has a couple of “kind of” gay members). Soon the team is attracting more gay players and becomes Iceland’s gay team.
Not as funny as the marketing blurbs led me to believe, but maybe it’s better in the orignial Icelandic.
