In Latter Days, a group of Mormons moves in next door to Christian, a gay man (Wes Ramsey). He makes a bet with his co-workers that he’ll seduce one of them. He meets Aaron (Steve Sandvoss), one of the Mormons, and gets more than he bargained for when not only does he manage to seduce the young man but finds himself falling for Aaron in turn. And of course, there’s the other religion crazed guys with Aaron who want to keep him pure.
The 2004 version of Spartacus stars Goran Visnjic as the title characater and Paul Telfer as his loyal little buddy, Gannicus. Spartacus, the Thracian, is a slave taken into gladiator school who leads a revolt of Roman slaves (circa 73 BC -71 BC). After leading the Romans on a bit of a chase, he is finally tracked down by the irate Roman consuls. Let’s face it, you’d be a bit ticked off too if someone had stolen all your hunky slave boys.
Being a bit of a Roman history buff once upon a time, I reallly liked this. It’s no I Claudius, but not bad at all.
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In Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, a group of gay friends gather at a lake house for a birthday party for Phillip (Nick Garrison), an effeminate young man with a bum for a boyfriend. Meanwhile, something strange is going on at the Exit 5 Reststop (near the Chemical Plant) where all the confirmed bachelors seem to gather. Amidst the fun and frolic and catty remarks of the party, severed body parts are found and the zombies attack. Gay zombies. No, really . . . .
A spoof of old black and white horror movies. Â Don’t take it too seriously, and it’s kinda fun.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
