Everett (Brendan Bradley) is in a lackluster relationship with Miles (Tad Coughenour) and seems to be sticking around because of their son and possibly the fact that their small town only has about a dozen people and pickings may be a bit slim. Everett is left at home when Miles takes their son to visit the grandparents. That’s when Chase (Matthew Montgomery), a writer looking for a place to revitalize himself, gets lost and stops to ask Everett directions. Everett appoints himself Chase’s tour guide and the two start to fall for one another. Even Everett’s parents and brother Shane (Simon Burzynski) start to fall for Chase, but will Everett leave his comfortable if boring life? Good movie, but not wild about the way it ended. Redwoods.
Make the Yuletide Gay
Olaf ‘Gunn’ Gunnunderson (Keith Jordan) is out at college but straightens up when he heads home for Christmas break with his mid-western parents. Meanwhile, his boyfriend Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero) whose own parents go on a last minute cruise ditching him for the holiday, decides to surprise Gunn by showing up unannounced, not realizing that Gunn isn’t out to his Christmas crazed mom (Kelly Keaton) and stoner dad (Derek Long). Make the Yuletide Gay is a great movie with a humorous look at coming out at Christmas time.
A Home at the End of the World
Bobby (Colin Farrell), Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and Clare (Robin Wright Penn) form an unconventional family. Jonathan is a gay man living in New York when his childhood friend / adopted brother Bobby comes to live with him and his roommate Clare. Clare loves Jonathan, Jonathan loves Bobby, and Bobby wants to make eveyone happy. Clare gets pregnant and the three go to Woodstock to raise the kid.
Trick or Treat
There’s a few horror movies that you don’t watch for the chills. Happy Halloween.
William Gregory Lee (Dante’s Cove) stars in Wolves of Wall Street as a young man who comes to New York seeking his dream only to fall in with a pack of evil underwear models who are stock brokers by day and werewolves by night.
Voodoo Academy (2000) is a soft porn horror flick in which wholesome, attractive young men are lured into a bible college (with all of 6 students) where they spend a lot of time in their underwear being subjected to weird rituals by the cute priest and the strange woman who run the place. Not much point, but lots of skin.
In 2003’s Leeches, we find that the steriod popping swim team has been spending time frolicking in the local pond where they’re getting sucked on by leeches. Of course, this makes the leeches grow huge and hungry for more tender, young hunks. Plenty of scantily clad, muscled young men in speedos and underwear. But none of them actually fast enough to outrun the leeches.
Green Plaid Shirt
Guy (Kevin Spirtas) and Phillip (Gregory Phelan) meet at a garage sale where they are both looking at the same Green Plaid Shirt. The two start a relationship which has it’s rocky moments. Set in the late 1970’s, we find Guy contracting AIDS and have a bit of a debate on whether or not fidelity is intended for gay men, which never really gets resolved. And most of the story is told in flashbacks. For a first time director, this was probably not too bad, but a bit uneven.
Grand Sons
Regine is a grandmother who’s gay grandson Guillaume (Guillaume Quatravaux) is still grieving for his now 2 years departed mother whose ashes sit in a suitcase on gradma’s balcony because Guillaume hasn’t gotten them scattered over Scotland yet. Then there’s her gay houskeeper Maxime (Jean-Philippe Sêt) who thinks keeping the ashes around on the balcony is just a tad creepy. Hopefully, this would have made more sense if I still remembered any of my grade school French lessons, but with just the subtitles to go by, something must’ve gotten lost in translation. And my grandma would’ve tanned my hide if I’d slouched around her house in just my briefs, but maybe it works differently in France.
The Houseboy
Nick May is Ricky “The Houseboy” in this 2007 independent film. Overhearing that he’s going to be replaced with a “new toy for Christmas” by the couple he’s living with, he goes on a spree of pickups while they’re gone and plans to kill himself on Christmas Eve, dramatically leaving his body for them to find. As he makes his way through a series of tricks, he tells them that he’s planning on suicide getting little sympathy from any of them. Finally he clicks with a young man he meets in the park.