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This mockumentary series, is not gay series. The two lead actors play almost all roles, including female and gay characters and the sensibilities of the humor is something that might align better with gay audience and hence the review here. The idea of the series is to poke fun at flying at the friendly skies. The duo portray nearly 50 different characters who work at or pass through the fictional airport's imaginary terminal, from pilots, stewardesses and baggage handlers to coffee-kiosk workers and assorted traveling couples. Also it is important to remember that this series came back in 2010. The show has 6 episodes of about 30 minutes each. The series satirizes people who have the time and money to use airports regularly - people with respectable dayjobs, authority and status; people with a shot at a managerial role. It features a wide array of characters such as owner of low-cost airline FlyLo Omar Baba, work-shy coffee kiosk worker Precious Little, highly camp passenger liais...

This film chronicles the world of Times Square male hustlers, porno stars, drag queens and doughnut shop waitresses. All of these people are of course touchingly good-hearted, smiling through bad times. Taking a story of a gay love and AIDS, rather than focusing on it, the makers seem more interested in detailing the bizarre side of New York City's gay subculture, which might have worked in a different film but seems wholly out of place here. Valentino is a porn star and Gary is a hustler and they are a couple, though it's far from exclusive. Valentino is also seeing Mary, , a fiery waitress with a curious inability to respect her customers. This love triangle is all well and good, until Valentino is stricken with an unnamed disease (read AIDS). At the same time Mary finds she is pregnant, so now the three must work through hard times together. It's a premise that certainly holds the potential for an honest examination of how AIDS affects both its victims and their friends,...

This series was sooo boring and bad, I can't even begin to explain. I really tried to give this a chance, but it just kept getting repetitive and there was absolutely nothing exciting about it. The storyline is painfully slow with constant body-switching and trust me it is not in an interesting way Thankfully the show as 10 episodes of 30-35 minutes each, but I can't believe how bad it was. Sun (a teacher) and Nuea ( a flamboyant gay)  are in a relationship but their sex life is not going well since Sun can't get it up. After various doctors visits, Sun decides to go to a shaman. The guy gives him a soap to wash himself with on a full moon night but make sure he is alone when doing that. As Sun drops the soap into the bath and gets ready for shower Nuea appears and forces himself to join him (no explanation on why couldn't Sun tell him the truth). The lights start to flicker and when they wake up they realize they have switched bodies. After the initial screams and conf...

This documentary tells the story of people who transformed into their true selves. Everyone has labels, but let's imagine a future without them. Three members of Toronto’s trans community who graciously share their stories in Unlabelled. Each in different stages of their transitions, Lucah, Emery, and Lucy open up about identity and gender dysphoria, their experiences with hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery, and their unique paths to becoming the extraordinary individuals they are today. The doc highlights the diversity of trans experiences, sharing not only the painful moments of their journeys, but also the abundance of joy, love, and community each has found.  Each one may have started off in fear and not being able to be who they who they knew they were, or were trying to figure it out, but in the end, they found their sense of community and people who love them, and they were able to become the people who they want to be. They graciously take us on a journey through ...

11 Blocks to Go: The Bet (USA) Samantha, a free-spirited hapless romantic, discovers her 30-something-year-old BFF Drew, a gay high-functioning drug-addled sex addict, hosting an orgy in lieu of honoring his personal commitments. With help from a mutual BFF, Gray, Samantha seeks Drew out for an intervention, leading Samantha and Drew to a showstopping bet. The film tries to be funny and sassy but somehow it's just not. Anatomia Di Un Rapporto (Italy) [Anatomy Of A Relationship] As two men explore their relationship, they test the boundaries of their physical and emotional desires. As the action gets more intense, the sense of intimacy begins to change. Things turn aggressive, and intimacy starts to give way to something darker. Mostly silent film of 5 min duration , this film is visually appealing but almost makes no sense. Eclissi Di Un Rapporto (Italy) [Eclipse Of A Relationship] Made by the same makers as above, another almost silent, the film follows two men in a difficult rela...

Was this sequel needed? Probably not, but I am still not complaining. These vertical shows help me keep my mind on something while I use the treadmill. Having said that it was nice to see Gabe and Seb again in a familiar setting with the continuation of the story with some new people. Oh well, here we go. Seb and Gabe are ow happily married but this season starts with Gabe getting attacked, while Seb is out in Mexico. When he. Comes back, he finds out that Gabe has amnesia, has lost his memory to certain extent and is. Now about to marry a girl. He tries to interfere the wedding but when he realizes that Gabe doesn't remember anything, he pulls back. He then gets himself hired as one of the bodyguards for Gabe and every time Gabe sees and touches Seb, he feels deja vu, as of he knows this man from somewhere. Meanwhile Gabe's wife wants to have sex with him but he keeps avoiding the situation and in th process keeps coming closer to Seb and spending more time with him. Meanwhile...

This vertical series includes the usual tropes of mafia, straight suddenly turning gay, some really hot men, some disgruntled women and some past that links that two main characters. Of course don't forget the cringy romance scene and at times bad acting, but then there is something about these shows that make me keep coming back to these. On his wedding day Gabe finds out that his fiancé is cheating on him with his step brother. But to acquire company's shares, he needs to be married by 25 , and so he decides to make a bizarre decision to marry this guy Sebastian, who suddenly came hiding in his closet running away from goos. Seb agrees because he recognized Gabe from 4 years ago an dhow he save this life, but Gabe has no memory. Seb is the heir to Brooklyn Mafia gang, but before he could tell Gabe this, Gabe makes it very clear about his hatred for mafia folks, since they were the ones responsible for his mother's death. Seb now tries his various ways to make sure that Ga...

Watching this Korean film was like watching those Japanese Pink films with thin paper plot and 70% sex scenes, just in Korean setting this time. Soft porn for all practical purposes. Every single time I end up watching one of these, I am so pissed at having wasted my time and I wish someone told me to just ignore it.  The film starts with a photographer dreaming of sex with a guy he doesn't know. Th next day when his assistant is showing him the pictures of her boyfriend Gi-joon, he is surprised to see that the guy is the same who came in his dreams. He somehow convinces assistant to send him for a photoshoot. Gi-joon really doesn't want to go and clearly is very uncomfortable with the idea of being a model but he gives in. The photographer slowly seduces him during the photo shoot and next thing you know is they are kissing and having sex and an affair starts. Gi-joon is completely in love now with photographer but he was just playing I guess and he strongly recommends that he...

This atmospheric queer drama about loss and self-discovery had an interesting premise but the execution is terrible and so is the acting. Also Iceland is so beautiful and despite the fact that 80% of the film is focused on taking us through the country, they have miserably failed to capture the essence of the beauty of the country which is a terrible shame. Photography is negligible. At least audience could have enjoy beautiful locations in this other wise bland film that did not need more than 15 minutes of a short film. Bruno is determined to find Norberto, his boyfriend who left for Iceland and he hasn't heard from him in about 2 weeks. Bruno arrives in Reykjavik, he reports him missing in police station. As he continues his search anxiously, the man befriends a local tour guide, Arnau, who joins Bruno’s road trip across Iceland to find the mysterious man. They first go to Vic, where Norberto was last seen in a hotel few days back. They dont find him but meet two other Spaniard ...

Light hearted BL series are always welcome. Sometimes you have have to laugh about the silly premise and also ignore the whole practicality of it to enjoy it. This is what I did initially in this show, but eventually towards the end it became too convoluted and boring to care about any of the character like I did for theorist few episodes. The series is 10 episodes of about 45 minutes each. Junior is a penguin born and raised in a zoo, where he and his brother, Little, perform for adoring crowds. One day he gets magical powers in the zoo to become a human and he does that. Confused by what has happened, he ventures out and stumbles upon a boarding school. It turns out that a spirit Mina has been helping hi out to get in school. As a new student, Junior tries to fit in by joining extracurricular activities, but most clubs fail to catch his interest, till he finds swimming club and he is better than everyone there. He meets another student Sun, a quiet and introverted. When swimming team...

Oh please!! Spare me these arthouse Indi queer films BS. The film is all about atmosphere where you watch it just so that you can call yourself a "connoisseur" of art house cinema. In reality this film completely fails to hold any attention. At the center of it all is a gay couple, but it could have been a straight couple as well and nothing would have changed. Middle aged gay couple Patrick and Rene, live in an empty seaside dance hall on the coast of France. One of them, Patrick the writer , was raised there and he’s come back to live and work in the old building. He’s turned the vacant ballroom over to his boyfriend René the artist as a studio/performance space where René gets busy working up a show for the gallery owner Maurice. Rene also runs a porn website  with pictures of his toy bears doing pretty much nothing. When René comes across a 60 year old photo of a couple of music hall comedians, he starts seeing the two comics everywhere he looks and one of them seems to b...

Set in mid 90s, this film set in Boston, follows a thirty-year-old gay man who attempts to get his life in order while living with his actress mother. It is a simple coming of age drama, that probably was quite novel for its time back in 96. The story itself is simple, with not much happening and a lot of it can just be watched fast forwarding quite a bit of content, because most of it is around our lead hanging out with queer artists and there is not much from a plot perspective. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, gay guy Andrew's life is going nowhere. He still stays home with his theatre actress mother. HIs close friend is his uncle, an artist and a confidant and is also gay. His closest friend is Lucy who works in the art studio with him and is lesbian but constantly bickers with her girlfriend. Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. But neither of his family thinks it's a good idea. He find out about h...

This Taiwaneses series is about Supernatural, reincarnation, soul swapping and all that jazz. This 12 episode, 30 minute each series looks at some interesting twist in the story, but it makes you wonder that when you fall in love, do you all for body or soul or somewhere in between. If the person you hate to the core suddenly starts changing, will you start falling in love with them? Haiyuan and Zefang go to same university and despise each other. Although Defang is a bit of playboy and wants to sleep with the usually reserved Haiyuan. Once at their home visit (they are neighbors), Defang and his grandfather swap their should when they fall off the stairs. The body of grandpa dies but Defang survives with the soul dog grandpa inside. After various attempts at explaining this to everyone, Haiyuan is finally convinced about the soul swapping since there is considerable change in Zefang's behavior. Thus begins their cohabitation tenure because grandpa is decades old and doesn’t know a...

This is your standard BL movie. If you've seen a lot of BL movies or shows, then you won't find nothing great or even different about this one. IT is simply ordinary. The actors are new, I would suppose, but they did a decent job. The film is almost 2 hours long , which honestly it did not need to because some scenes are stretched being reasoning, just for the sake of it and honestly it is very monotonous. Ask and his girlfriend are headed out for a holiday to an island. On their way there, they meet Chai. Turns out that Aek and Chai used to be schoolmates and in fact roommates in school. The trip decide to hang out together and one night Aek and Chai are alone and they remember their school days. The entire film is then in flashback. Chai is a new student in school who ends up being Aek's roommate. Both of them are into sports. Very soon they becomes great friends, taking care of each other, eating, laughing, playing together and all is well. Secretly Chai has a crush on A...

Jia (Australia) Ming arrives in Australia to mourn her late son Yao. She embarks on a road trip with Eric, who she learns was in a romantic relationship with him, which challenges her conservative Chinese values. Their journey takes them through rural Victoria - where Ming scatters sand from Yao's hometown across the last places he travelled - eventually finding a shared language in their suffering. Beautiful, almost silent film. Realness With A Twist (UK) The film is about one man's balancing act between his love of football and his love of voguing. Torn between what seems like two completely different worlds, he struggles with considering his future in the sport. When an important opportunity opens up, he has to consider what the sport and his safety means to him. Ted & Noel (Documentary) (UK) After losing his partner, Noel, a devastated Ted Brown questions the impact of his activism and struggles to mount a new campaign. Can Ted find the strength for one last fight for L...