Movie Reviews -
Gay Themed

This BL follows three guys who got adopted and grew up as brothers, and their bond runs just as deep as if they actually shared blood. Like you'd guess, the oldest brother's storyline gets the most focus and ends up being the central one, but the other two brothers and their romances still add plenty to the overall story. Biking seems to be the underlying theme tying things together, though it fades into the background a lot, leaving room for these quieter moments where each brother finds love in his own way and his own time. It runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 55 minutes long. Sailom is studying at university in the US and comes back to Thailand for a short trip to Phuket, where he ends up randomly meeting a soft spoken doctor named Nabnueng. The two hit it off right away, but Nabnueng quickly picks up on the fact that Sailom deals with aphenphosmphobia, meaning he can't handle being touched by anyone at all, not even close friends. What's strange is that he does...

Season one of this show was already a total trainwreck, so when I found out there was a sequel coming, my first thought was genuinely how does something this bad even earn a follow up. Turns out the sequel manages to be just as terrible in every way you can think of. Eight episodes, each running 30 to 35 minutes, and getting through it felt like actual torture. It carries over all the same ugly patterns and red flags from the first season without changing a thing. Nobody was asking for this. Kim, the struggling art student, and Han, the rich controlling guy, are officially a couple now. Kim's stuck wondering why his art has lost its spark and why he's falling behind in school. Then a new antagonist shows up, Han's childhood friend, who's broody, mysterious, and good looking. Han's not a fan of him but they still end up grabbing tea together every so often. This friend happens to know exactly how Han turned into the manipulative, BDSM obsessed guy he is now, and he s...

Every couple of months I somehow manage to forget who Todd Verow is and what his track record looks like, and I end up watching one of his films anyway, only to sit there afterward wishing I'd remembered sooner. This one's broken up into 24 chapters, framed as scenes that were supposedly cut, with a title card claiming they were removed for reasons like length, denial, melodrama, believability, dubbing, and sexual content. The story kicks off when Sean, a guy in his thirties, crosses paths with Wolf, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, and there's instant chemistry between them. They head back to Sean's place and dive into an intense, sex heavy relationship. What starts out as just a random encounter gradually turns into something with more weight behind it. Wolf's got a laid back nature and makes extra cash turning tricks on the side, while Sean is the opposite, clingy, chatty, and pretty wound up emotionally. Building anything solid between them turns out to be a ro...

This series is basically the definition of a green flag watch. Two solid, likeable guys, barely any toxic drama, and just an all around warm vibe running through it, the whole thing feels sweet and puts a smile on your face pretty much the whole way through. It's twelve episodes, each clocking in around 25 minutes, and it flies by fast, but the chemistry between the leads, their smiles, and the overall feel of the show sticks with you well after it's done. Our main guy Jiakai has this strange gift where he can see invisible threads tying people to each other, and each color of thread means something different. That ability swings both ways for him, sometimes it helps him out, sometimes it lands him in a mess. The one sad part is he's never been able to see a thread linking himself to anyone else, so he's kind of resigned himself to being alone with no real connection of his own. Things kick off in a funny way when he gets arrested by a cop named Dawei while trying to he...

Set in 2001, right at the start of the new millennium, this one's a gentle little coming of age story about two guys figuring out who they are. I don't know much about what that era was actually like over there, but going by what the film shows, being gay back then meant dealing with a ton of hostility, and even just being suspected of it was enough to get you targeted. Think about what high school would've been like under those conditions. On top of that, the movie also digs into that thing where gay people end up turning that hatred inward on themselves for reasons that make no sense. It's a small, tender kind of film. The story centers on Gyeong Hwan, a freshman who's just switched schools after moving to a new area. He ends up seated next to Jae Min, the class president, and the two hit it off once they realize they both love the same Japanese music. Because Gyeong Hwan comes across as shy and soft spoken, he becomes a bit of a target for bullies. As their bond ...

AIDS: The Unheard Tapes is a genuinely powerful three part BBC2 documentary that digs into audio recordings from the eighties and nineties, pulled from the British Library's archives, to piece together what the early HIV and AIDS crisis actually looked like in the UK. These recordings get brought back to life through carefully recreated period settings, with actors lip syncing the original voices. That's paired with present day interviews featuring activists, scientists, and doctors who were on the front lines fighting the virus and pushing back against all the misinformation and homophobia surrounding it. Each of the three episodes runs about an hour, and I'll just say upfront, this might be the single most important documentary made about AIDS history from a UK angle, and it should honestly be required viewing for everyone, especially within the gay community. The documentary opens at a point where homosexuality had already been decriminalized for fifteen years, yet arres...

This series lands somewhere around decent, mixing romance, fortune telling, and a bit of chaos into one package. To its credit, the basic idea works fine, it's about pretending to be someone you're not just to win someone's heart, and then slowly getting buried under the guilt once the lies pile up. That's the core of it, but like most BL shows it plays everything out in a pretty light, fluffy way. Ten episodes here, each running close to an hour. Rit's our lead, a final year architecture student who unexpectedly turns into a viral sensation on campus known as the Prophecy Master. He reads fortunes using rune stones at his best friend Pure's neighborhood bar. What started as just a drunken story he told for fun ends up going viral and actually boosting business at the bar, so he just rolls with it. That's when Itthi enters the picture, the guy Rit's been crushing on for ages, who also happens to be the good looking heir to a wealthy real estate family. I...

Okay so this one had a strong start, genuinely fun and engaging for the first two or three episodes, but then it completely flips on itself as it goes on. The comedy around the games and challenges gets cranked way too far, basically turning into full blown reality TV territory, and at some point it just feels like the whole thing exists to sell you on the island it was filmed on. I'd bet there are more plot holes in here than anyone bothered counting. And then the ending just rushes past everything, the leads suddenly patch things up out of nowhere, and I genuinely sat there confused by how random it felt. Twelve episodes total, each around twenty five minutes. Yoki's a well known actor who's hit rock bottom after a string of scandals combined with ongoing insomnia tank his career. His manager pushes him to sign onto a reality show as a way to rebuild his public image. Not thrilled about it, he heads out to a small fishing village, where he unexpectedly runs into Yang Meng...

We've seen gay love stories dropped into crime settings before, mostly out of Thailand, but this series takes that whole idea somewhere new, and it's really more of a proper series than just a romance with crime dressed around it. The gang politics and constant jockeying for power aren't just background noise here, they're actually woven right into the main plot, essential to the whole thing. It's set against the backdrop of the chaotic 1980s Kowloon Walled City, and that setting feels genuinely lived in. There's real chemistry, real tension, and the season ends on a cliffhanger that's clearly setting up more to come. This first season runs 9 episodes, each landing around 50 minutes. Since there's honestly a ton going on, I'm mostly going to zero in on the romance here. At the center of it is a relationship between a gang leader with a softer side and a student who's seen as practically perfect, the pride of not just his family but the whole neig...

This is a whole new lane for me as a viewer. A soft, human queer story built inside trucking culture just isn't something that comes around often, straight or gay, that world barely gets touched on screen at all. What the director's doing here is mixing gritty realism with these surreal flourishes, and the pacing is slow on purpose, letting us sit inside a piece of queer life that almost never gets shown. Strip it down and it's really a road movie, following a kid who hitchhikes and an older, rougher trucker as they move together through roadside stops and motels scattered across North Mexico. Watching these two slowly build something while their histories close in on them is what drives the film, and it ends up landing somewhere between raw and deeply sexual, a story about everything that can go sideways when your whole life happens on the highway. We meet Veneno first, twenty years old, working as a sex worker who also moves drugs for the truckers who pay him. He gets rip...

This 4 episode mini-series, each one running about fifty minutes, is exactly the kind of follow up fans of Me and Thee like me were hoping for. It's honestly one of the best shows to come out recently, and finding out the creators actually put together more episodes made me genuinely happy. I loved everything about this couple originally, how they got together, got married, and built a family, and this mini-series just picks that story back up and manages to pack a whole lot into just a few episodes, which made me really glad. The show drops us right into their married life without wasting time. Thee's trying to act more mature and grounded these days, though apparently his version of being sensible involves whisking his husband Peach off on a weekly honeymoon for half a year straight. Their two kids call them both dad, and honestly the two of them make for perfect parents. Meanwhile Peach wants to get back into photography, and that's where a lot of the comedy kicks in, si...

Madfabulous retells the real story of Henry Cyril Paget, the fifth Marquess of Anglesey out in Wales, a guy who came back at the tail end of the 1800s to claim his aristocratic title, only for his over the top lifestyle to put him at odds with practically everyone around him. It's a genuinely gorgeous film to watch, worth checking out honestly just for the incredible outfits alone on its iconic queer lead. This version does stray from what actually happened growing up in his real life, but it still pulls in all the major chapters of his story and turns them into something visually rich and beautifully done. Nothing about his sexuality gets stated outright anywhere in the film, but it's pretty clear he's meant to read as queer, which should make this an easy watch for queer film fans. Back in the 1890s, Paget, the black sheep of his family, shows up in North Wales to take on his title as the fifth Marquess of Anglesey, and immediately shocks his uptight relatives with how mu...

This Japanese rom-com is just a lighthearted, goofy love story between two guys who keep things entertaining the whole way through. Story wise it's pretty basic if you break it down, but what actually carries the show is the two leads, who spend the whole time bickering and getting under each other's skin, and somehow that's exactly what makes watching them so much fun. The chemistry between the two actors is off the charts. The series is 10 episodes, each 25-30 minutes. Zen and Ryo are our two leads, and they work at the same company together. These two have been trying to one up each other since their high school days, and that competitive streak has just carried right into their adult jobs. Like you'd expect, neither of them ever actually comes out on top for good. Outside of work though, the two of them actually spend a lot of time together, meeting up regularly at Ryo's place to drink and catch up. They've even got their own rule set up, whoever loses a bet...

This Thai film is going for that crime and romance mix inside the BL space, trying to blend coming of age struggles with gritty gang violence thrown in. Honestly, this movie really didn't need to exist. It grabs actors straight out of BL shows that you'll recognize instantly, then tries to drop them into this gritty setting with a story that just doesn't land. Even if there was some kind of heart buried in here somewhere, the way it's actually put together feels pretty amateur. Kheng comes from a rough background and has his heart set on studying in China, so he's grinding hard trying to land a scholarship. We don't get much of his backstory, but he's living with his friend Tai, who I'm pretty sure has feelings for him too, and Tai backs him up in every way he can. One day Kheng witnesses a group of thugs beating up a guy named Boang, who turns out to be a drug dealer, though Kheng has no clue about that at the time. He ends up saving Boang's life an...

This is a genuinely interesting film. It kicks off feeling like a queer character study hitting every single beat you'd expect from a rom-com, and then it takes a hard turn into something a lot darker. At its core it's about a gay teenager who gets pulled into a crime by his own friend group. It's set in this world of Mexico's elite class, and while we've seen something similar with the wealthy setting in Spain's Elite, this is the first time I've really seen that kind of world explored through a Mexican lens. Our main guy is Alf, a student from serious money who's just come back to his Catholic all boys school in Mexico after spending a year away at a religious boarding school in the States. Coming back, he realizes his school and his old friend group aren't the same as when he left, they've traded in being precocious kids for chasing girls and getting drunk. Instead, Alf finds himself drawn to Oliver, a new student who plays ukulele and stands ...