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Stop! That! Train!

By Golu
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...
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The Endless Possibility Of Sky

By Golu
What was I thinking! I wish I knew that the film is by Todd Verow, a director , clearly, whose films are meant for something thats not my cuppa tea. Sure there is a basic story idea but the execution is of a fun on sex display (nothing wrong with that), but in all the process , the basic plot gets lost somewhere and this film is no different. This story is the maker's interpretation of drug and sex in the gay community.

Once you reach the sky, there is only downfall from there when it involves sex and drugs. We see multiple characters and their stories which eventually connect. After having. Lived a life of illicit drug use and unprotected sex in Manhattan, Dale has now moved to a small quaint town trying to keep his mind away from excitement of NYC. Mistress DaTina runs a sex and drug den. She opens up her place for gay sex and drug usage but only for as long as the guys strip down when they arrive and stay naked while there. Rob is homeless, gay and young and uses sex and drugs to find a place to sleep and he does not care who takes him in; including some really old and disgusting folks. Christian deals with loss and feels helpless. He uses drugs as a means of escape from the loneliness and hurt that he feels and all this does is make feel even lonelier and feel the hurt more intensely. These storylines come together to give us a look at addiction and sex.

The film is narrated by a character known as the writer who records the characters and their stories and the director tries to take us to the underground into the dark where sexuality and drug use come together. The big problem here, like most of Verow's films is that the man has ideas, but he has absolutely no clue on how to present those ideas in a form that is consumable and makes sense to the general audience. And it's not about the low budget production values, it's more about the narrative and storylines, always convoluted and disoriented. The subject is drugs within gay community is still quite prevalent and needs to be addressed but in a manner that would help us, nit in a way where it ends up being soft core porn. This one, like most of his other films, is again completely avoidable. (1.5/10)
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