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East Side Story

In East Side Story, Diego (René Alvaradois) is a closeted, young, Latino man working in his grandmother’s restaurant. He longs to get out on his own, but can’t seem to quite get himself to move on. As he realizes his boyfriend (David Berón) is determined to stay in the closet and his grandmother is not quite as clueless as she seems, he’s given the final push when his crazy aunt outs him to the restaurant staff. Meanwhile, a couple of gay men move in across the street and one of them (Steve Callahan) starts to fall for Diego but has problems leaving his lover (Cory Schneider) even though he’s miserable in the relationship.

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Posted on April 19, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: cory-schneider, gay, movies, rene alvaradois, shirtless, steve callahan

Eleven Men Out

Eleven Men Out is the story of Ottar Thor (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson). A football (soccer) champ in Iceland. He suddenly decides to come out during a press interview, causing havoc with his team, his father (who’s also the coach), his ex-wife, and his son. But at least it gets him moved from the back pages of the magazine to the cover.

Thrown off his professional team, he joins and amatuer one (which already has a couple of “kind of” gay members). Soon the team is attracting more gay players and becomes Iceland’s gay team.

Not as funny as the marketing blurbs led me to believe, but maybe it’s better in the orignial Icelandic.

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Posted on April 12, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, gay, movies, shirtless, soccer

Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie follows a group of gay friends (Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase, and Mitch Morris) who vow to lose their virginity by the end of summer. A take off on teen sex comedies with our heroes going from one sexual misadventure to another. Appearances by Scott Thompson, Graham Norton, Richard Hatch, Matthew Rush, James Getzlaff, and Ant.

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Posted on March 22, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: gay, jonah blechman, jonathan chase, michael carbonaro, mitch morris, movies, shirtless

A Dog’s Breakfast

A Dog’s Breakfast, a funny independent film that gave David Hewlett, Paul McGillion and Kate Helwett something to do while Stargate Atlantis was on a break. Hewlett’s character Patrick decides to kill his sister’s fiance (McGillion) who is the star of a sci-fi show where the sister is a make up artist, when he suspects that the man he already doesn’t like is plotting to kill his sister. McGillion puts in an appearance in drag as his aunt, a police detective who comes to investigate. There’s also a brief appearance by Christopher Judge (Teal’c from Stargate SG1)

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Posted on March 14, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: david hewlett, paul mcgillion, shirtless, stargate

Testosterone

David Sutcliff is Dean, a graphic novelist, whose Argentinian lover Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) just disappears one day in Testosterone (2003). Dean runs into Pablo’s mother at a party and she brushes him off, clearly not wanting him near her son. More determined than ever, Dean heads to Argentina to track down Pablo and find out what’s going on. A series of improbable plot twists follow leading Dean across the country side of Argentina and introducing a variety of odd ball characters. The film seemed like it should have been better than it was. Sabato’s brief full frontal helped, but . . . .

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Posted on March 8, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: antonio-sabato, david sutcliff, gay, movies, shirtless

Rock Haven

In Rock Haven (2007), Brady (Sean Hoagland) is an 18 year old planning on attending bible college and keeping his zealot mother happy. After they move to Rock Haven, however, he meets Clifford (Owen Alabado) and his thoughts stray in a different direction. Brady tries to fight his growing attraction to Clifford as Clifford tries to slowly encourage him.

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Posted on March 1, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: gay, movies, owen alabado, sean hoagland, shirtless

Latter Days

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.

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Posted on February 22, 2008 in Cute Guys by Syzygy
Tags: gay, movies, shirtless, steve sandvoss, wes ramsey

Spartacus (2004)

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.

Goran Visnjic: