Tides of War
In Tides of War, Frank Hably (Adrian Paul) is a Navy submarine commander whose lover is his Executive Officer (Mike Doyle). Leaving aside that this might not show great judgement, the sub is on patrol near North Korea when it’s attacked by an unidentified stealth sub, killing the Executive Officer. After facing an inquiry and fearing court martial (not for being gay, just for almost getting his boat sunk), Hably is brought back to command a secret mission with a new Executive Officer (Matthew St. Patrick, of Six Feet Under fame) who’s watching his every move. Vindication arrives in the form of another sneak attack. Kent McCord and Matt Battaglia also have roles.
I’d about given up on ever finding a copy of this when I stumbled on an offer in another DVD for a free promotional copy from Here! TV.
Torchwood
In “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Captain Jack (John Barrowman) is back, but so is Captain John (James Marsters, formerly of “Buffy TVS” fame) a fellow time agent out of Jack’s past. First they kiss, then they shoot. . . er. . .. guns that is. . . . The Torchwood team gets some insight into Jack’s past and then get beaten up as usual defending the Earth from inter-dimensional badness.
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Crazy
In Crazy, Marc-André Grondin is Zac, a young man with gay feelings. The film follows him from his teens to his twenties as he deals with his family and his own feelings. From his mother’s belief that he has a special spiritual connection and power to his older brother’s drug use and his father’s Patsy Cline obsession. Well worth watching, French-Canadian with subtitles.
The Fluffer
Aspiring film maker Sean (Michael Cunio) comes to Hollywood but has no success breaking into the business. Renting “Citizen Kane” he discovers the box actually contains a copy of “Citizen Cum.” Sean becomes fascinated with the star of the film, Johnny Rebel, aka “Mikey” Racini (Scott Gurney). Sean takes a job as a camera man at Men of Janus video which produces Johnny Rebel’s films and becomes the titled “Fluffer” for gay for pay Mikey. Sean soon finds that the object of his obsession isn’t the dream man he’d hoped. The movie also has a number of quick cameo appearances of actual gay porn stars.
Love is the Devil
Derek Jacobi stars as British painter Francis Bacon in the biographical work Love is the Devil with Daniel Craig as George Dyer, a burgler whom Bacon takes to bed when he discovers him breaking into his house. Bacon eventually loses interest in the younger, less sophisticated man. Dyer for his part begins to self destruct with drugs and alcohol as he realizes he doesn’t fit into Bacon’s world and he’s being gradually pushed aside.
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Outing Riley
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
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.
