Another batch from another day of “guy watching” at the beach.
Day at the Beach
Just a couple of shots from a trip to the beach:
War Boys
George (Stargate Universe’s Brian J. Smith), David (Benjamin Walker) and Greg (Victor Rasuk) are the War Boys, a group of young men who have nothing better to do than park on the border with Mexico and harrass illegal immigrants. David has been suspended from college and, when he’s hassled by his father (Peter Gallager), decides to steal one of his father’s trucks that he thinks is hauling contraband electronics across the border. The three War Boys pull off the heist and while waiting for things to cool off before selling the goods, Greg gets involved with an older woman and George and David give in to their feelings for one another.
The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes
John (Tim Swain) is The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes a young man living an ordinary life who slightly envies his friend Kevin who’s life consists of traveling the globe as personal assistant to “Solange” (Mahogony Reynolds). Solange is a minor celebrity whose career consisted mostly of getting hacked up in various Italian horror flicks and a briefly sensational music video. When Kevin dies, Solange convinces John to join her as his replacement. As they travel around Europe, John falls for Alain (Valentin Plessy) a young waiter in France and Giacomo (Yann de Monterno) in Italy. But eventually John comes to wonder just what it is that Solange is up to as mysterious strangers follow them and bad things happen wherever they go.
The Wolves of Kromer
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.
A Single Man
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.
Pornography: a Thriller
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.
Blood for Dracula
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.
