Movie Reviews -
Gay Themed

Twosome Boys (Korean Mini-Series) - 2024 6 episodes of about 6 minutes each. Min and Suho are wannabe idols. They were not only friends but lovers at one time. Something happened to break them up which I never fully understood. Su Ho went on to form a group, leaving Min behind. Somehow they are thrown back together again and are literally forced to reconcile, forcing both to confront unresolved resentment and deep-seated heartache. There is mention of Min's abusive alcoholic father. This was one of the most confusing mini series I have seen where a lot just did not make sense at all and we, as audience are never given enough context on what the hell is actually going on. Completely avoidable. With Me (Korean Mini-Series) - 2025 6 episodes of about 8 minutes each. A classic story of couples not dong clear open communication. A couple has been together for 10 years and very much in love. When one of them starts to have secret phone calls and find excuses to leave, the other starts to...

I am really not one for those pretentious art house flicks where the creators try to throw in a million different themes, leaving viewers like me scratching their heads about the actual message, what was supposed to be the central journey, or what the director was attempting to get across in the first place. Don't get me wrong, the mood is undeniably intense since the gloomy plot takes place right after the war in Vietnam, packing in plenty of raw emotional weight, but I genuinely could not tell if the main goal was to tell a queer love story or simply wallow in pure misery. The plot follows two young guys, Viet and Nam, who scrape by doing brutal manual labor deep down inside coal mines. Money is tight, yet they manage to stay happy together as a couple, sneaking away on the job to share secret looks, quick kisses, and the occasional physical encounter in the shadows when nobody is around. Nam lives with his widowed mom, a woman deeply haunted by her late husband who went missing ...

You could basically sum this one up as a queer neo-noir erotic thriller centered on a closeted cop who openly admits he's a sex addict and slowly spirals out of control over the course of the story. There was a whole era where these sleazy, sweaty, unapologetically trashy films thrived on dangerous attraction, moral gray areas, and characters just making awful choices under a haze of neon lighting. Not this one though, at least not for me. This film misses the mark on a lot of fronts and honestly never grabbed my interest. The biggest reason is that the plot gets so tangled up and confusing that huge chunks of it just don't add up. Aiden's a cop in Sydney fighting hard not to masturbate, since he's dealing with some form of sex addiction and has convinced himself that abstaining makes him both physically stronger and a sharper cop. He takes this so far that at one point in the middle of the film he actually buys himself a chastity cage. He's part of a unit working t...

When I read the summary about anonymous figures wandering the streets looking for hookups until one of them slips past the locked gate of a city park to wander its trails, I got curious and figured this might turn into some kind of erotic mystery. Turns out that one line basically sums up the entire runtime. This whole movie is just one single night of gay cruising inside an amusement park, broken up entirely by glances exchanged and bodies coming together. One guy locks eyes with another somewhere on a path, and pretty soon they're tangled up together among the trees and fences. The film bounces between something like fifteen or twenty different men, almost nobody speaks a word, and basically the entire runtime is just these guys cruising and hooking up around the park. Given the subject matter, yeah, this gets explicit, exactly what you'd expect. I kept asking myself, and honestly I'm still asking, whether this is meant to be actual porn or some kind of legitimate art fil...

This is a tough one to sum up quickly. It's a soft, gentle story about just being human, about how weird little quirks in people actually end up pulling them closer together. It's a thoughtful drama loaded with positivity, packed with a bunch of quirky characters who somehow all click despite being so different. Their personalities come through in genuinely funny moments, but the quieter, more personal scenes hit you right in the heart too. It's not fully a gay love story, but at its core this show does spend real time on what gay people and couples deal with in Japanese society, especially as they get older. And the title fits perfectly, a chosen family is where you finally get accepted, seen, and loved, and that's exactly where these characters end up finding home. You'll get it once you watch it. It runs 10 episodes at 50 minutes each, and honestly every episode deserves your full attention. There's a huge cast here so I won't be able to cover everyone pe...

Honestly I don't even know where to begin with this one. Going in, I figured this would be a solid BL wrapped around a murder mystery, and that part actually was true, but the logic just completely checks out at some point, so by the time everything gets revealed you're left saying what, not because it's shocking but because it's genuinely that dumb. The worst part is our main character supposedly has memory loss and can only recall the last ten years of his life, which is fine on its own, except then why does he need some stranger to mail him a diary to jog his memory about the past? The whole thing just felt way too random. This one runs ten episodes at about fifty minutes each. The title comes from the fact that there is this specific melody that both hypnotizes and brings memories back to Botpleng, but has actually no relevance. Our lead is Botpleng, a crime journalist who only remembers the last decade of his life, and his mom's currently in a coma. Out of nowh...

I was a huge fan of season one, that sharp, satirical humor really worked for me and I rated it pretty high, so I went into this season with high hopes. Unfortunately it let me down hard. Not only did the jokes just not land for me this time, I actually found myself checking out and bored during nearly every episode. Honestly I'm not shocked the show got cancelled after this season. Same as before, it's ten episodes, each about twenty minutes long. Same cast is back, but everything felt off somehow. Alvarez's character Mr Evans shifts from being this loveable mess who deals with life through neurotic charm into more of a grown man trying desperately to fit into some kind of Bro Code Brotherhood of America thing. We've still got Malcolm as the boyfriend, Gwen as his high energy best friend, Markie the gym teacher, plus the principal and Rick. Evan and Malcolm are officially a couple now, but things are rocky between them. Markie's still saying offensive stuff with go...

True to its title, this show tries to capture burnout not as some big dramatic collapse but as this slow, draining exhaustion that quietly eats away at relationships and how you see yourself, and honestly it makes the characters feel really real. The pace is slow on purpose, and everyone here is flawed and full of contradictions, nobody's simple. It uses this messed up boss and employee dynamic to sneak in some pretty smart commentary on society. The story digs into toxic work culture, mental health struggles, and how money ends up running our lives whether we like it or not. And yeah, there's a love triangle thrown in too, because of course there is. This one runs ten episodes, each around 45-55 minutes. Jira's twenty eight, broke, and struggling to make it as a painter. Nothing's going right for him, his art isn't selling, he's got no steady job, and he's basically on the edge of falling apart. His best friend Ing does what she can, finding him odd jobs an...

This Thai BL leans hard into the reincarnation trope, and it's got all the usual suspects, a scheming female villain, a love story that crosses lifetimes, the same sprawling mansion I swear I've seen in like ten other shows by now, and honestly as a viewer you can pretty much predict where it's headed. That said, I'll give credit where it's due, the execution is solid, the leads have real chemistry together, and there's enough mystery woven in to keep you watching. My issue is the plot just drags in way too many spots. With twelve episodes running over fifty minutes each, this is a real time investment. The story bounces between two timelines, looks like early 1900s and mid 1900s, with basically the entire cast from the past life getting reborn into similar roles and relationships in the present. In the current day we meet Kaewta, who's struggling financially and lives with his mom. Out of nowhere two men show up claiming he's a distant relative of Khun ...

Thai vertical BL content is flooding in from everywhere right now, and honestly the FOMO of it all is what keeps pulling people like me in even when we know better. This one is a perfect example of that trap. Bad story, basic acting, and every lazy trope that this format leans on when the only real goal is churning out content and hoping nobody notices. Ramin grew up with a loving family until his parents died and everything changed. He got taken in by a man named Chai, who had zero interest in actually raising him and instead used him as a political prop to build influence and public support. Years of being controlled, manipulated and abused in that household shaped who Ramin became. Then Napat walks into his life, the son of a mafia king, though nobody around him knows that. These two feel a pull toward each other and end up sleeping together twice, with Napat genuinely falling for this man without having any idea that Ramin is basically living under Chai's thumb. Neither of them...

MuTeLuv is an anthology series built around people turning to supernatural forces to get what they want, with love finding its way into each of those journeys. Out of the full series, only two stories have gay plotlines, and those are the ones I watched and am writing about here. This particular story runs four episodes, each around 45 minutes. The first story is called "Hi" By My Luck, and it centers on Err, a high school kid who is basically the academic golden boy, top of his class, winning olympiads, stacking up achievements. Then Mawin transfers in and quietly, without even trying, starts threatening everything Err has built his identity around. Err calls him the dark horse, and the fact that this calm, reserved new kid is effortlessly brilliant drives Err absolutely crazy without Mawin even being aware of it. A major scholarship exam is coming up, one that could send the winner abroad to study, and Err is not about to let that slip away. His friend tips him off about an...

Thai BL as a genre rarely ventures too far from its comfort zone, so stumbling onto one that throws horror, folklore, black magic and a full-blown murder mystery into the mix was genuinely unexpected. What surprised me even more was my own reaction to it, because I found myself completely pulled into the thriller side of things, and at certain points the BL moments actually felt like they were getting in the way of an otherwise tight and well-constructed mystery. That is not something I ever thought I would say, considering I usually complain when shows like this skimp on the romance. Thirteen episodes, about 50 minutes each, and every single one carries weight and has something real to offer. The show opens on blood and gore and closes on kisses and starlight, and everything sitting between those two ends includes suspense, guilt, black magic, heartbreak, the messy business of not being over your ex, and even a hometown trip taken with a brand new boyfriend. The series kicks off at a ...

Vertical BLs, mostly coming out of the US, are absolutely everywhere right now, and honestly it is only a matter of time before AI-generated versions start flooding in too. But until that nightmare arrives, I will keep watching these guilty pleasures, eyes rolling the entire time, rating them low because nothing really changes between any of them, and yet somehow I cannot stop. That is just my life at this point. The two leads here are Donovan and Kaden. Kaden is the openly gay, twink-coded student body president, and Donovan is your textbook straight macho quarterback. Kaden has a thing for Donovan, but Donovan treats him just like most of the school does, which is to say he bullies and mocks him. Things escalate during budget planning when Kaden does not allocate enough funds to the football team, which only makes the bullying worse. When a prank Kaden pulls backfires, he ends up assigned as the football team's water boy as punishment. This is where Donovan starts secretly flirti...

I genuinely cannot remember the last time a Thai BL rom-com made me this happy. Lately I've mostly just been rolling my eyes at how silly this genre can get, but something about this one really got under my skin in the best way. Across ten episodes, each running about fifty to fifty five minutes, we watch how one ordinary, down to earth guy completely flips the world of a ridiculously wealthy man who's been living in his own bubble, someone who thinks money solves everything and has zero clue how regular middle class people actually live, a guy who's completely disconnected from reality but secretly obsessed with soap operas. Two people from totally different worlds end up colliding, and what follows is this perfect mix of laughter, blushing, and emotional gut punches. Thee comes from serious money and runs his family's perfume business, living alone despite all that wealth. One day he tries to throw a huge amount of cash at a model who works for his company just to sle...

To My Shore is a dark, psychologically heavy Chinese BL that happens to be set in Thailand, though honestly the location barely matters here. I guess the whole purpose was so that a Chinese BL could have a proper release and find its audience. (We all know about strict China laws around homosexuality). This isn't your typical sweet romance at all. It's a heavy psychological drama about two broken men colliding in a way that's devastating and moving at the same time, a complicated and emotionally exhausting journey that lives right on the line between love and obsession. That doesn't mean it's actually good though. It's average at best because the same cycle just keeps repeating itself over and over. The show also never gives you any real sense of how much time is passing between events, which gets even stranger considering the leads don't age or change at all despite supposedly years going by. It's fifteen episodes, forty five minutes each, so it asks fo...

This German coming of age drama tackles a really tricky taboo subject and it's going to split people right down the middle. The film starts off looking exactly like every other teenage countryside romance you've seen before, lush visuals, swimming, bike rides through the country, and then it pulls a twist that completely changes what kind of movie you're watching. It does have shock value going for it, but honestly it didn't manage to hold my attention the whole way through. There are a lot of loose threads and underdeveloped ideas that just get left hanging. In a small German town, Sebastian is living a pretty normal teenage life, sheltered and looked after closely by his parents, sneaking off here and there to drink beers by the lake with friends as his version of rebellion. He has a girlfriend too, though she clearly wants to take things further than he's ready for. He's just a kid trying to work out where he fits in the world. Everything shifts when his fath...