Coming out of the same studio that gave us RuPaul's Drag Race, and stacked with a whole crew of former contestants, Stop! That! Train! plays like RuPaul basically taking a bow for the entire franchise she's built. It's not really a gay film in the traditional sense, but with so many drag stars from Ru's shows popping up alongside a few cameos from well known out gay actors, I figured it earns a spot on this blog anyway. The whole thing is completely over the top, packed with GenZ slang, loud flashy visuals, and humor that's constantly winking at you knowing how ridiculous it is. Going in you'd assume it's meant to be a laugh riot, and a lot of critics online seem to be eating it up, but I just couldn't get into it at all. I've never really been someone who vibes with campy silly stuff like this, so honestly my reaction doesn't surprise me one bit. The setup follows Tess and DeeDee, two low level stewardesses who sneak onto the fancy Glamazonian E...
Ant starts to wonder about his sexuality when he meets deaf teenager Early. His friend Tremor picks up on Ant’s interest and begins to tease him, leading to some very awkward but revealing conversations. The direction is very artsy , but a lot of random cuts makes it very hard to focus on the short as a whole.
An old man and a young 17 year old teenager have a chance encounter. The boy is running form home and the older guys brings him to his motel It is a coming-of-age short about a chance encounter between two strangers that results in an intimate conversation about love, life, desire, and secret. This actually had the potential to be an endearing short film, but it turned out to be yet another formulaic, self-indulgent gay creepy old man's fantasy.
This film and the above two complete the 'Desire Trilogy' by filmmaker Ohm Phanphiroj. The two boys from the first film reprise their roles. Ant and Tremor meet up in a hotel lobby in downtown Chicago. Tremor is moving to Florida tomorrow, so this is the last chance they have to express their feelings for each other.
Father Ray, a parish vicar in South London, is approaching 60 but he's decided he doesn't want to die living a lie. He is gay and for him, it is time to be honest with himself, and to tell his congregation. This short film follows Father Ray in the lead up to the most climactic sermon of his life - that attacks bullying, homophobia and where in no uncertain terms he declares he is a homosexual. The film observes the reactions that follow and the thoughts of Father Ray who realizes there is now 'no turning back'.
Derek is a beloved English professor at the local university and is married to a successful financier husband, with whom he raises a 4-year old daughter. However, Derek's all-American family is compromised when he develops feelings for Trysten, a smart and handsome new student. Derek realizes the picture-perfect life he's always wanted may be in jeopardy as he confronts serious questions about family and monogamy. God! The lead actor was sooo bad.
Marc is exposed to a hate crime. It embarks a personal journey where he dives into toxic masculinity and its consequences. He creates an intimate space with a group of men who together cultivate vulnerability and eroticism as an antidote. Full on sex scenes and erect dicks. More of an artsy film for my tastes, but at least all th guys were quite good looking and hot.
Two sisters arrive at their parents’ home for Christmas with boyfriends in tow. When the family leaves for a last minute trip to the mall, the two boys are left to mind the turkey. Before they realize, the two men are both all over each other, hooking up, kissing and making merry. What ensues will surely become a memorable holiday for all. Although a bit dated and perhaps not the greatest production values, there is plenty of quirky charm and flirting to bring plenty of laughs.
For football mad Matt mixes his love of the beautiful game, with his love of the works of Joe Orton and a sexual orientation that is all but obvious, even if his family and best friend Gary are seemingly unaware of Matt's sexual proclivity. Only could words of advice from an ordinary or perhaps not so ordinary Joe, finally prompt Matt to get up close and personal with that hunk of a football substitute that he's been lusting after, before both the game and the short come to an end?
Concerned parents hire a private detective to tail their son because they think he might be gay.
George's Date (South Africa)
A animation short film showing particularly malleable young white man gets ready for his romantic evening with a black guy.
Spokes (USA)
A gay German tourist meets a man in New York City’s central park and takes home a souvenir.
Andy Warhol directs a single 27-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title. The facial expressions have to be seen to be believed.
Kiss (USA)
One of Warhol's first films. Closeups of various couples (men & women, women & women, men & men) kissing for about 3 minutes each.
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Harper who recently came out gay, is at a friends party where he is struggling to hold back his feelings for his straight friend, Danny. He confesses his feelings and acts in a way that Danny owes him his love (?) As midnight approaches, Harper exploits himself in a brief sexual encounter to mitigate his loneliness and disconnection only to realize that he must come to terms with his identity. OK film but the critical incident of what happened in the restaurant is not told to us and its hard to empathize for Harper in this case, just because he expects that his straight friend should like him back.
This is a silent short film shot in black and white. An old man in a hospital bed has a visit from another man, who kisses him on the mouth. We are taken back to a scene of a young man and woman in their wedding attire. They have sex, and soon we see them having a baby. But the young man also has encounters with another man, and the woman in her desperation commits a heinous act. At the end of the film, the woman comes to visit the old man.
In a fancy hotel, a bell boy delivers a bottle of whiskey to a wealthy middle-aged client. The guest seduces the young man and offers him money for a sexual favor. But what started as a simple game becomes perverted and eventually violent.
Porcelain (USA)
A gay Filipino man goes home with a non-Asian man that he meets at a club. When he finds a chinaman figurine and other Asian knicknacks he's confronted with the issue of how race affects desire.
This quartet of short experimental films from gay filmmaker Michael J. Saul feature themes of first love, coming out, a gay teenage vampire and the beauty of youth. Contains the following short films: “Morning Dance”, “Dominus”, “Hover”, “Don’t Read Now”.
Mike and Peem are good friends taking acting class together and who are secretly having an affair known soothers because one of them already has a lover. take the same acting class together. During an acting exercise, Mike and Peem are partnered up to act out a scene together as a couple. The acting session doesn’t go according to plan when the lights flicker off and Peem eerily disappears. Mike goes into shock afterwards, reacting to a phantom hallucination with absolute terror and distress. This 3 episode mini series is below average.
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