Garçon Stupide (Stupid Boy), directed by Lionel Baier, is a coming-of-age tale about a handsome but rather skinny, anorexic twenty-year-old boy, Loïc (played by Pierre Chatangy), who was born in Brittany, now lives in Switzerland, works listlessly in a chocolate factory, sells his body on evening chatrooms and streetcorners, and socializes with Marie (played by […]
Fixing Frank, directed by Michael Selditch, is based on a stageplay by Ken Hanes in which Frank Johnston (played by Andrew Elvis Miller) gets in the middle of a conflict between two psychologists, Dr. Arthur Apsey (played by Dan Butler) and Dr. Jonathan Baldwin (played by Paul Provenza). The conflict is portrayed as a debate
Fighting Tommy Riley, directed by Eddie O’Flaherty, is mostly about Marty Goldberg (played by Eddie Jones), the closeted elderly gay trainer of an up-and-coming straight boxer, Tommy Riley (played by J.P. Davis, who authored the screenplay). In the early part of the film, the plot seems ordinary, perhaps a clone of Million Dollar Baby (2004). One day,
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Ethan Mao, directed by Quentin Lee, is a story within a story about how a traditional Chinese parent rejects his gay son. When the film begins, eighteen-year-old Ethan Mao (played by Jun Hee Lee) is aware that he is gay, but his father is overly strict with him, his narcissistic stepmother Sarah (played by Julia
Eating Out, directed by Q. Allan Brocka, is an independent film which pursues the premise that some straight girls (“fag hags”) are friendlier with gays than with straight boys. When the movie begins, hunky University of Arizona political science major Caleb (played by Scott Lunsford) acts out a fantasy of self-possessed sex kitten Tiffani (played
Fear X, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, focuses on Harry Caine (played by John Turturro), a security guard at a Wisconsin mall whose wife is shot dead one day in the parking lot of the mall for no apparent reason. Caine then becomes so obsessed with finding out why she was shot that his work
Dorian Blues, directed by Tennyson Bardwell, is a coming-of-age story about a teenager named Dorian Lagatos (played by Michael McMillan) who concludes one day in the early 1990s that he is gay. The director-writer writes about someone he personally knows, and the story is realistic as a result, though unremarkable. When the movie begins, he
The Deal, directed by Harvey Kahn, begins with the premise that the United States is at war with the Confederation of Arab States, resulting in the burning of oilfields. Accordingly, the price of gas at the pump, if available, is $6 per gallon. The resulting energy crisis prompts two initiatives–a search for more petroleum and
The television show Charlie’s Angels has been amusing audiences from 1976, with film versions released in 2000 and 2003, so why not a satire? D.E.B.S., directed by Angela Robinson, does just that. In the movie’s prologue, a voiceover says that a secret part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) measures dishonesty, thereby enabling those with high scores
Every August, the French take a vacation for the entire month, giving them an opportunity to engage in reflection and recreation, perhaps even personal growth. A popular destination for the affluent is the coastal Mediterranean, where the cool waters take the edge off the warm sun, and clothing can be informal. The part of France