Shel Grandy (John Stamos) is a gay party planner in Wedding Wars. His brother (Eric Dane) is a speech writer for the governor and is getting married to the governor’s daughter (Bonnie Somerville) and they ask Shel to plan the wedding. When the governor makes a campaign decision to support a ban on gay marriage, Shel goes on a one man strike but is soon followed by gays and lesbians across the country. Sean Maher plays Shel’s lover.
In Deadly Skies Antonio Sabato Jr is an ex-military guy who was in charge of builiding a honking big space laser, but was afraid the military would use if for bad stuff. He told them he was gay to get kicked out. Rae Dawn Chong recruits him and his other half, Michael Boisvert, to get the laser up and running to zap an asteriod about to hit the earth. Although Boisvert shows all (and a VERY nice show it is) Sabato plays coy on the full frontal unlike his bare all in Testosterone.
The movie was also put out in a “straight” version without the gay content.
Head On follows young Ari (Alex Demitriades), a Greek-Australian closeted gay man, as he tries to figure out his life. He doesn’t really reach a good conclusion, but its an interesting movie as we get introduced to his dysfunctional family, his boyhood friend (a transvestite), and follow his drug use and sexual hookups.
Griffith (Dan Montgomery, Jr.) is a Southern boy living with his crazy Aunt Summer (Karen Black) and romancing his female cousin in the relentlessly Southern small town of Pine Apple Mississippi in ‘Red Dirt’. One day, a handsome stranger comes to rent the cottage on the farm. Griffith finds himself attracted to the lodger, Lee (Walton Goggins) and they become friends and more, but Griffith can’t bring himself to leave the small town he’s trapped in.
Other than the stereotype of Southerner’s having sex with their cousins, not a bad movie.
In Beverly Kills, Beverly Jackson (Gary Kelley), a long in the tooth drag queen, is rejected for a part in the local Pride Playhouse theater production (any part). Angered, she vows to use her hypnotic powers to start a cult and exact her revenge. Shane (Rick Sparks), a down on his luck gay guy who lives in the theater, and Ray (Matthew Herrmann), the lighting guy, run afoul of her evil schemes.
And who would have thought you’d get any action with a pickup line like: “Do you want me to stay and protect you from the evil drag queen?”
In The M.O. of M.I., a gay couple, Mike and Tom, goes to see a performance artist, Jonathan, who ends up sleeping on their couch. Jonathan (David Christopher) turns out to have a history with Mike (David Stokey) and designs on Tom (Cory Schneider). Oh, and he’s a thief, hustler, and drug dealer, who happens to have a bunch of bad guys chasing him. The Modus Operandi of Male Intimacy. Everyone’s scamming someone.
A Britsh comedy, 9 Dead Gay Guys, is the tale of Byron (Brendan MacKey) and Kenny (Glen Mulhern) who are two Irish lads come to London. Byron is having sex in the local gay pub to earn drinking money. Kenny is surpised about his friend but soon finds himself not only into gay sex for “legitimate business purposes” but because he finds he’s gay.
After Kenny “shags” Byron’s steady customer to death, the two set out to find the legendary money in Golders Greene’s bed; the money thought stolen when “the Queen” was murdered with a “class 5 offensive weapon.” That is, if they can find a way into Golders Greene’s bed without passing the “really hard Red Bull test” (stack two Red Bull drinks together). Along the way, they encounter the Deperate Dwarf, the Iron Lady, Donkey-Dick Dark, and assorted other oddball characters.
Regular Guys is a 1996 German comedy. Christoph (Christoph M. Ohrtis) is a cop who gets drunk one night after his fiancee kicks him out. He winds up in a gay bar and later wakes up in bed with Edgar (Tim Bergmann), a cute mechanic, but not able to remember what, if anything, happened between them. After another series of sad sack misadventures, Christoph decides to take Edgar up on his offer of a place to stay. Of course, a “will they or won’t they” scenario develops as Christoph not only tries to hide that he’s living with a gay man (platonically) from his buddies on the police force, but also keeping Edgar out of jail when he discovers that Edgar is part of a stolen car ring being targeted by the force. A funny, enjoyable movie (despite having to keep up with the sub-titles).
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