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Love In The moonlight (Thai Series)

By Golu
This Thai BL is set in the 1960s, and while it's a love story at its heart, it feels a lot more pure and honest than most. It really captures that difficult, long battle of fighting to love who you want and giving your heart to the person you actually choose. It shows how winning that fight usually means getting hurt along the way. The show is a real slow-burn romance that mixes trust and betrayal with some pretty intense emotional moments. When you add in the sneaky relatives, the political backstabbing, and a suspiciously high number of evil adults, the show becomes a pretty long watch. It's 12 episodes that are about an hour each, and the very last one runs for almost two hours. The story takes place in the 60s when the political regime is changing, and a military leader wants to take all the property away from the kings and princely families. Since he doesn't have another choice, the king sends his son, Prince Saenkaew, to Bangkok to stay at the home of one of his close...
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Straight Men & The Men Who Love Them - 3

By Golu
This third installment of international short films chronicles the pitfalls and pleasures of fluid sexuality in men exposing the complex, dynamic and at times volatile relationships and situations surrounding friendships and hidden attractions. Themes included in this selection explore the differences and similarities of shared experiences as societal expectations, stereotypes, and traditional values, are unexpectedly challenged as attitudes evolve.

Quarters (USA, France)
The night before his wedding, Paul celebrates the last hours as a bachelor with childhood friend Jeremy as they drink and play "Quarters". However, as both men raise the stakes, so do the confessions and dares. This is one night neither is soon to forget.

Rubber Duckie (USA)
In a seemingly post-apocalyptic world, consumed with boredom, Jesse and Daniel push their own limits and boundaries. But is it simple boredom or an insatiable innate appetite for more? They begin a journey that explores the unconscious part of the self which harbors their shameful, self-destructive, and dark selves.

Boygame (Sweden)
John and Nicholas are 15 years old and best friends. They are very interested in girls but feel insecure when it comes to a first sexual encounter with a girl. The obvious solution would be to "practice" on each other. What will happen now? Can they remain friends?

Early One Summer (UK)
A short film about a first crush. When Dave goes on a camping trip with his PE teacher, he thinks something amazing will happen. It does, but it changes both their lives forever.

From Here To There (Hong Kong)
Two college boys meet again at a wedding banquet ten years after graduation, sitting next to each other, as in the past. Jae drives his drunken friend, Him, far away to his home. The trip was long enough for them to review their relationship, but not good enough to repair it.

Boygame and the one from Hong Kong were the only decent films in this collection. Rest three are easily missable. Although I binge watched the whole trilogy here, I have to say that oversell it was a bit disappointing. (3.5/10)
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