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Private Galaxy (Chinese Series)

This BL was so paper thin and honestly close to unwatchable that I kept wondering why it even got made. From what I've read, it was originally shot as just 4 episodes and then someone decided to rush out 4 more later on for whatever reason. Not that it matters to me either way, as long as the final product actually holds together. The story here has basically nothing to it, this could've easily been condensed into a quick 20 minute short instead of getting stretched out into an 8 episode series with each episode running just 15 minutes. Wei Xing is a famous singer who ends up accidentally kissing a regular guy named Liang Chen on a bridge one night. A year passes, and Wei Xing is scouting models for his fashion label when he spots Liang Chen again and offers him a modeling gig. To everyone's shock, he actually signs him for the contract. Things start rough since Liang Chen's completely green at this, and the team can't figure out why he was chosen, but Wei Xing stic...

The Man With The Answers (Greek/ German/ Italian/ English)

I am very conflicted about calling this a gay movie. The protagonist happens to be gay, which we find out in one scene, and besides that this film has absolutely nothing to do with the sexuality. At its core, this film is a road movie, a kind of travel-and-talk friendship/romance. Victor, loves diving and is now looking after his sick grandmother on an island in Greece. He is a loner with a part time job. When his granny dies, he decides to leave town. We find that he has strained relations and some unresolved issues with his mother, who many years ago, left him and married a German guy and lives now in Bavaria. On the ferry enroute Italy, he meets Matthias, a very confident and outgoing German man. As odd as the two are, Matthias convinces (while flirting) Victor to take him along for the ride and he will take him through some scenic routes. Jere begins a road movie with gorgeous landscapes and a couple of incidents leading to the two men realizing their growing feeling for each other...

Apo Thavma (Greek) [By Miracle]

This was an interesting and a weird film at the same time. I haven’t seen any film from Cyprus before, so its hard for me to say how developed their film industry is. I am nostrum, if that’s something that should change my views about overall film in general but personally, it does change my perspective a bit. The story has 2 parallel tracks running, whose characters occasionally cross paths. In the first we have Aliki and Andreas, a couple in their thirties, who have lost their 4 year daughter in an accident. They are leading a very depressive and mundane life which is putting their married life at risk. I got the impression that sometimes they wanted another child but other times they didn’t. Parallel , we meet Marios, a teacher in his twenties living with his mother. He is gay and satisfies his sexual urges with random hook-ups, but things change when he meets a young choreographer in his swimming club, but he is too scared to fall for him, because he doesn’t know what future w...