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Journey With You (Chinese Series)

By Golu
I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
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Kondom des Grauens (German) [Killer Condom]

By Golu
This film wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. By no means, I am saying this was good or that I would recommend it to watch, but when your expectations are so low, sometimes some movies end up surprising you. This film seemed more like a spoof of comedy/horror genre. German speaking film, set in New York City, where everyone speaks German itself just feels like an anomaly, and with a title like that, you should know wheat you are getting to. But oh well!!

When in a seedy motel Quickie, a condom bites of the penis of a professor trying to harass his student, things get set off. Gay detective Luigi, who is hung like a horse sets to find out truth. When he lays his eye on the young hustler Billy, they both wanna get on the action and hire the same room where this incident happened. Right when they are about to get on to it, The killer condom attacks the officer and Luigi ends up losing one of his nuts. “Nobody bites off a Mackeroni’s jewels and gets away with it. Nobody and nothing!” he announces and goes on a one-man vigilante show to destroy those killer condoms even when everyone else thinks that he’s gone crazy. The cases keep going up where the targets are primarily gay men, hustlers and prostitutes. With the help of Billy another crazy people around, Luigi finds that a religious fanatic group is behind all this, who had kidnapped a scientist and made this killer condoms with sharp teeth.

There is not much original stuff to talk about here but there are however plenty of very funny lines as well as ridiculous scenes to laugh out loud to. And I don't laugh easily. The dude playing Luigi does a good job pf playing his part. He maybe short and stout, but he way he acts like he’s a tall strapping hunk and I have to love a man with a healthy sense of confidence to carry off the airs like he does. Billy is cute hustler who is totally smitten by Luigi (or maybe his hung dick). The film is not really sexually explicit, rather has some funny incidents. The whole scenes involving Luigi's ex, a wannabe drag queen Bob who wants to be called 'Babette' were quite funny in a spoof sort of way. The ending and the whole religious fanatic thing was quite random, but then with a movie like this you are not supposed to take things seriously. This deadpan horror/comedy does and fairly decent job satirizing politics, religion and sexual taboos and also gives us a look into stereotyping gay lifestyle. This is not the kind of film I like to watch especially the spoof genre but maybe a pleasant surprise may await you too. (5/10)
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