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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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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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