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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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Necro-Mancing Dennis

By Golu

This micro budget film was genuinely one of the worst things I've sat through. The plot feels completely random, like someone shot a bunch of unrelated scenes and then scrambled to stitch them into something resembling a story afterward. It's confusing, way too crowded, and plays out like a sloppy B-movie full of characters you can barely tell apart. I kept asking myself why anyone would even make something like this, and the wild part is this isn't even some forgotten relic from the 90s. There's also a ridiculous amount of full frontal and ass nudity that serves absolutely no purpose. Honestly I struggled to even locate a coherent story underneath all of it.

I was so lost watching this that I actually had to look up the plot online afterward just to understand what was supposed to be happening. So here's the gist. There's a disturbed cemetery worker named Dennis who hides serious physical disfigurements under this creepy hood, and he develops an obsessive, unhinged crush on someone. When he can't win this person over the normal way, he turns to increasingly dark and deadly methods, convinced that death is actually the way to be together forever. Running alongside that, there's a second storyline about a straight wrestling coach who suddenly finds himself attracted to one of his male students. As he wrestles with these confusing, forbidden feelings, the student ends up in serious danger because of it. The whole thing is supposedly about how far desperate men will go to get what they want, blending obsession and desire with some supernatural elements thrown in.

This movie left me so confused at points that I genuinely thought I'd accidentally skipped chunks of it. I kept waiting for it to click into place at some point but it just never did. It honestly feels closer to porn with a horror coating, minus any actual penetration or money shots. There's gratuitous male nudity everywhere, a lot of gay sex, an absurdly tangled plot, and at one point a guy doing naked push ups with a burlap sack over his head. This film genuinely has it all. I didn't really follow what was going on until close to the end, there were just too many moving pieces and way too many interchangeable young white twinks to keep straight. I'm still not entirely sure how some of these characters connect to the story at all. And I genuinely cannot believe this came out in 2018, even a cheap 90s gay slasher would have done better than this. (0/10)

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