Movie Reviews -
Gay Themed

Honestly I can't believe we're still getting BL series this bad in 2026. This mini series runs about 7 to 8 episodes with a total runtime of just about an hour and it is so boring that I genuinely struggle to find the words. The actors are awkward, the story is as basic as it gets and there is almost nothing about this show worth saving. The makers do try to stir up some drama here and there but even that falls completely flat. Ho Won is a 23 year old university student who spots a man sitting alone at a gay bar and gets attracted to him. The man is Min U, a 33 year old who brushes Ho Won off immediately saying he's too young. Ho Won lies about his age and since he's made a bet with the bartender that he'll get this man home before the night is over, he switches tactics and eventually the two end up at Min U's place and sleep together. Despite being complete opposites in every way there's some kind of pull between them and they go on a couple of dates. But t...

This is a film from the early 90s and that context really does matter when you sit down to watch it. For its time, it was probably pretty talked about. It's a murder mystery erotic thriller that manages to be dramatic and completely ridiculous at the same time, and the absurdity of it genuinely made me laugh a few times before I had to remind myself that logic wasn't exactly a priority for filmmakers back then. The main character David is seriously messed up and genuinely mean, but you still end up feeling sorry for him because he's clearly a victim of sexual abuse who never dealt with any of it and just takes all that pain out on everyone around him in the worst ways imaginable. The film opens with a naked man being murdered in pretty brutal fashion. Then we meet David, a young guy who's just left boarding school following a teacher's death, which is almost certainly the killing we just watched. He shows up at his wealthy mother's gorgeous oceanfront house to s...

Honestly they should have just called this show J&J. The two leads are Jerome and Jinn and they even get called that nickname a few times in the show itself. Maybe there were title issues but J&J would have fit so much better. Head 2 Head just feels a bit off. Anyway, it starts out like your typical enemies to lovers story but give it some time and there's actually more going on beneath the surface. The show runs 12 episodes of about 45 minutes each and is a decent watch overall. Jerome and Jinn have lived opposite each other since they were kids and have been rivals for just as long. They mock each other, put each other down and are generally at odds about everything. Despite all that they're part of the same friend circle which also includes Van and Farm. After a car race Jerome gets injured and starts experiencing visions. He figures out pretty quickly that these visions are always connected to Jinn and the world around him, sometimes reassuring and sometimes deeply ...

This documentary is basically about one thing, the American religious right going hard against the LGBTQ community and the damage it causes to families who are stuck between their faith and the love they have for their own kids. The whole film takes this very gentle, patient approach and is really trying to get people with conservative religious beliefs to see that there's no reason to be fighting the LGBTQ community. It stays focused on parents, how they reacted when their kids came out, what the family had to go through, and how they eventually got to a place where they could be supportive. It opens by talking about the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage and the backlash that followed in a lot of parts of the country, but that's actually not the main point of the film. The real focus is on four families. The first is an evangelical family in Washington state whose whole world gets rocked when one of their sons comes out as gay. The parents are very open about how they trie...

There was something almost magnetic about this film that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Some movies have this rare ability where every single frame feels worth looking at, the people, the places, the movements, all of it just draws you in. This film absolutely has that quality. It's a fictional retelling of real episodes from the life of dancer and choreographer Rianto, who practices a traditional dance form from his native island of Java called the Lengger dance, where men take on feminine appearance and movements. The story follows Juno and is told almost in chapters, each one marking a different stage of his life, as a child, as a teenager, and each chapter carries some kind of crisis tied to how his body and sexuality are read by the world around him. Without a mother figure in his life Juno has grown up comfortable with solitude and seclusion. As a child a dance master spots the grace and flexibility in his body and sees him as a natural dancer, but that same effeminat...

What a refreshing film this was honestly. It completely sidesteps the usual trans victimhood narrative and instead dives into something far more layered and interesting. It boldly lets its trans lead live in two worlds that are usually seen as incompatible for trans characters. She's out there indulging her sexual fantasies while also trying to build the kind of family structure that trans people have historically been shut out of. The film basically says that identity contains multitudes and refuses to be boxed in by what society expects. A girl can have it all and this film makes that case confidently. The central character is a famous trans theatre actress who is doing very well for herself. She's fierce, sexually very active and makes no apologies for it. One night she meets a gay Mexican lawyer who stayed back in Argentina, let's be honest, because of the hot men. The two are very attracted to each other and start a relationship. He meets her family and it becomes clea...

This one is hard to categorize and honestly that's both its biggest ambition and its biggest problem. It's this wildly eccentric psychosexual comedy that tries to carve out a whole new genre and I genuinely can't think of anything quite like it. But trying to be audacious and actually pulling it off are two very different things and for me personally it just didn't land. And just to set expectations, this isn't strictly a gay film. One of the two lead characters is gay and yes sexuality is very much part of the conversation, but that's about as far as the queer angle goes. Joey and Craig are roommates and their dynamic is warm but also a little uneven. He pays the rent and she doesn't, which means he gets away with things like asking Joey to stay in her room with the lights off when his Grindr date comes over because he's told the guy he lives alone. The film opens with Joey sitting with her therapist recounting this long winding story about how she met ...

This Thai mini series is bad and full of red flags where you question so many of the protagonists motives, yet somehow you wanna watch it and finish it. This mini series is just 10 episodes of 10 minutes each, but it should have multiple trigger warnings. I thought we were done with rape eat few years back in the BL worlds in the name of love, but I guess not! Pakin kidnaps a a luxury hotel heir Venus, holding him captive in the unforgiving wilderness. He blames him for making his younger brother fall in love with him and breaking his heart which led to his brother committing suicide. Venus pleads and begs saying that it was his twin brother Saturn who must have done this but Pakin would take none of it. He rapes Venus, makes him do household chores and other atrocities. Meanwhile, the hotel heiress grandmother is worried at where have the town grandsons disappeared and ask her trusted advisor to find them. Her evil niece meanwhile has been eyeing the whole property and is not happy th...