In Mr. Right, Harry (James Lance) is a TV producer making home improvement and antique shows while his boyfriend Alex (Luke de Woolfson) tries to become an actor while working a catering job. Their lives get disrupted when Harry’s cute carpenter gets sick and he hires Lars (Benjamin Hart), the do nothing but good looking boyfriend of Tom (David Morris) as a temporary replacement. Lars tries to seduce Harry into making the role permanent and when turned down, he gets his revenge by spreading the rumor that they had a fling anyway. Meanwhile, rugby player and antiques dealer William (Rocky Marshall) is falling for soap opera star Laurence (Leon Ockenden) but finds the relationship complicated by what his fears about how his young daughter will react to having to share him with someone else. And then there’s Louise (Georgia Zaris) who introduces her new boyfriend Paul (Jeremy Edwards) to the group of gay men, only to find that he seems a little too fascinated by them for her to be convinced he’s completely straight.
The Art of Being Straight
Jon (Jesse Rosen) moves to Los Angeles after breaking up with his girlfriend and moves in with Andy (Jared Grey) a friend from college. Getting a job at an ad agency leads to Jon being seduced by Paul (Johnny Ray) an older male executive at the firm. Paul finds himself trying to fit in with Andy and his friends as he comes to grips with this new side of himself with they help of his lesbian friend Maddy (Rachel Castillo) who briefly toys with the idea of a straight fling with her new neighbor Aaron (Pete Scherer).
Broken Hearts Club
From 2000, The Broken Hears Club is set in West Hollywood where a group of gay friends go through various trials and tribulations of relationships and life in general with the help of their mentor / employer Jack (Frasier’s John Mahoney). The cast includes Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Justin Theroux, Chris Payne Gilbert, Ben Weber, Matt McGrath, Christian Kane and Andrew Keegan among others. A bit sappy, some decent eye candy. (more…)
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.
Law of Desire
Antonio Banderas is Antonio Benitez in Law of Desire (La ley del deseo, 1987), a disturbed young man who stalks his favorite film maker Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela). When Antonio’s affections aren’t returned with the fervor he hopes for, he sets out to elminate the competition. We’re treated to a very brief nude, long shot of Banderas, but the film is much more generous with the “charms” of Poncela (NSFW).
Little Ashes
Little Ashes provides a look at the 1920’s love affair between painter Salvadore Dali (Robert Pattinson) and poet Javier Beltrán (Federico García Lorca). While in school the two become attracted to one another but drift apart as Dali seems to have problems with the relationship and a desire to go to Paris to achieve wealth and fame. General impression: an OK movie but seemed awfully long.
The Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul, the movie, not the statue, has Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) a struggling young writer finally having a chance to sell his somewhat autobiographical script. The complication is that the producer wants to replace the character of his dying male lover with a woman to make it more sellable. Further complicating things is Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the bi-sexual producer, starting an affair with Robert. Then of course, Jeffrey’s wife, a former screen writer, becomes fascinated with Robert and starts stalking him anonymously in online chat rooms, eventually finding out more than she really wanted to know.
Eating Out: All You Can Eat
The third installment of the “Eating Out” series, All You Can Eat, continues with the confusion of who’s who with straight guys pretending to be gay for various reasons. Casey (Daniel Skelton) comes to town and falls for Zack (Chris Salvatore). When Casey is too shy to approach Zack, inveterate fag hag Tiffany (Rebekah Kochan) convinces him to meet Zack online and further urges using pictures of her ex-boyfriend and stripper Ryan (Michael E.R. Walker) in a fake profile to get to know Zack. Then before Casey can make his move, Ryan comes back to town and the confusion begins. Amusing with lots of skin.