Gay Movies – Page 10 – blog the hegemony

Ghostwriter

Ghostwriter is a dark comedy wherein Jonathan (Alan Cumming) is a music teacher longing for fame and fortune. He takes in Sebastian (David Boreanaz), a struggling writer, and has visions of being his mentor / muse with a tinge of romantic interest. It seems Sebastian is leading him on and taking advantage of him. Finally, Jonathan snaps and ends up accidentally killing the younger man. Jonathan then proceeds to cash in on Sebastian’s novel only to find himself haunted by the dead writer. With appearances by Ann Heche, Karen Black, Carrie Fisher and Henry Thomas (Elliott from E.T.)

Possible spoilers (and scantily clad David) after the jump.
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Posted on February 20, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: alan cumming, david boreanaz, gay, Horror, movies

3 Day Weekend

For a 3 Day Weekend, a group of four friends decide to shake things up in their usual routine and they each invite a single friend to see what happens. One of the “friends” is a hustler paid for the weekend. New relationships form, some get re-affirmed and others end.

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Posted on February 13, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
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Crutch

Crutch, “based on a true story”, tells the story of David (Eben Gordon) whose home life is falling apart with a philandering father and an alcoholic mother. David falls under the spell of his acting teacher Kenny (Rob Moretti – actor, writer, and director of the film). The controlling Kenny at first provides an escape from David’s family, but his situation doesn’t improve as he spirals down into drug abuse and confusion over his relationship with Kenny.

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Posted on February 7, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: eben gordon, gay, movies, rob moretti, shirtless

Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon

This biography takes us through the life of Jack Wrangler with a series of interviews with Jack Wrangler, various actors, filmmakers and celebrities. We go fromhis early life in Beverly Hills as the son of a filmmaker father and a former model, to his early childhood in show business through his time as an actor first in gay and then in straight porn until the present. Wrangler had a series of small parts in legitimate theatre, TV, and movies, even an appearance on “The Dating Game”. Eventually working his way to be a stripper, despite the fact that he couldn’t dance, he takes a role in a play with a nude scene and from there moves into gay porn. Eventually, he switched to straight porn for the money, despite being gay. Also explored is his romance with singer Margaret Whiting to whom he eventually married. All in all, an interesting movie; nice to see a porn actor who made it through AIDS, drugs, and other perils of the adult film industry.

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Posted on January 31, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: documentary, jack wrangler, shirtless

Bent

Max (Clive Owen) is a gay man living in Nazi Germany. The movie begins just as the Nazi’s decide to purge the homosexuals from their government, Max has picked up Wolf (Nikolaj Waldau), a young, blond, stormtrooper, in a gay hang out. Wolf is on the list to be killed, and the Nazi’s show up at Max’s apartment in the morning. Max and his friend Rudy (Brian Webber) go on the run. Eventually captured, Max ends up in the Dachau concentration camp, but pretends to be Jewish to avoid getting a pink triangle marking him as a homosexual. He befreinds Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), another gay man, while in the camp and something of a romance develops under the harsh conditions.

Ian McKellen is Max’s Uncle Freddie who Max turns to for help while on the run. Mick Jagger is the transvestite singer in the gay nightclub.

A tragic but well done movie. Bent (1997).

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Posted on January 25, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: brian webber, clive owen, lothaire bluteau, nikolaj waldau

Fixing Frank

Frank (Andrew Elvis Miller) is a somewhat weak willed gay writer who is pushed by his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Paul Provenza) into writing an article about Dr. Apsey (Dan Butler), another therapist who “fixes” gay men to make them straight in Fixing Frank. The two therapists go to war in Frank’s head with his boyfriend wanting him to be a “good fag” and Apsey wanting to convert him.

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Posted on January 17, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: andrew elvis miller, dan butler, paul provenza

10 Attitudes

Josh (Jason Stuart), a successful caterer, comes home early and catches his lover of 10 years with another, much younger, man. After a little trauma, a friend convinces him to try dating 10 guys prior to packing it all in and moving back home. 10 Attitudes follows Josh’s humourous attempts to find a man, going through hustlers, married men, and the boy band obsessed. Jim J. Bullock, Judy Tenuta, and David Faustino put in appearances. Make sure to check out the DVD extras.

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Posted on January 9, 2009 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
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Luster

In Luster, Jackson (Justin Herwick) works in a record store and longs to be a poet. Jackson is obsessed with Billy (Jonah Blechman) a guy he met at a party who can’t be bothered and is oblivious to the guys who do want him: Derek (Sean Thibodeau), a customer in the record store, and Sam (Shane Powers), his straight friend who owns the record store who’s having major problems dealing with his attraction. And then Jackson’s hot cousin Jed (B. Wyatt) shows up drawing Jackson’s interest and tempting the local lesbians to go straight. A fair amount of comedic set ups, but not a happy movie.

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Posted on December 22, 2008 in Gay Movies by Syzygy
Tags: b wyatt, gay, jonah blechman, justin herwick, movies, sean thibodeau, shirtless