Movie Reviews -
Gay Themed

This film is supposed to be a thriller crime drama, which an intersex lead at the center of it all. The person is dealing with their childhood trauma and young adulthood 'trying to survive' stuff. Depending on how you see it, is either a film exploring nonbinary gender identity or a mesh-mash of a crime movie with a radically unorthodox queer protagonist. I wanted to like the film, but I felt like this film was trying to be a lot of things.  The film starts with us being introduced to Ponyboi, (who I first thought was trans female), who is a part time sex worker for New Jersey truck drivers and later arrives at the second job of laundromat. Ponyboi's best friend is the pregnant Angela, whose boyfriend Ninny also happens to be the pimp for Ponyboi (fucking them on the side). He is charming, sexy, alluring but also dangerous. It's valentines day and he asks Ponyboi to "tale care" of one of his clients with home cooked drugs. Things go wrong when this man dies be...

This mini series is a tender ode to young love with individuals struggling with their identity and hopes. Told over 6 episodes of a total runtime of about 70 minutes. The series is about Elly and his first summer after high school and people he meets. We are not spooned on what is Elly's background. All we know is that he has been dealing with some sort of depression and some sort of estrangement from his mother.  Series starts with Elly’s best friend, Rowen, picking him up at the hospital. Elly is going to be staying with her for a while. The setting is a very small town. Here Rowen introduces Elly to Yonah, same age and a recently out young man. ON Rowen's insistence the two boys start to hang out, despite initial reluctance by Elly but Elly starts too slowly enjoy this. Yonah is not doing anything to cure his depression but the company helps. Yonah is a dreamer himself, who likes to read books and write poetry and dreams of traveling. Elly meanwhile had been  painter and ha...

This film felt like an independent film with a runtime of just about an hour. On the plus side, the film just focuses on the story it wants to tell without having to stray into side plots. Sadly that is not enough to keep the focus of viewers. It felt like this could have ben a very good short film. The attempt, though noble, feels amateurish at various places. Despite the fact that the film doesn't drag, it still feels it could have ben tightly edited to make for a far better impact. The two good looking leads hold the film tightly together. The film is about the bond that forms between Ara, a local MMA fighter, and Kossi, a soccer player from Togo who faces hardship in Argentina. Ara, a local fighter notices an injured Kossi and somehow gets fascinated by him. It turns out that Kossi came here from Togo with a promise to join an elite football club that could change his life. But not only did the agent turn out be fraud, but now with the injury, he doesn't have place to live ...

Honestly I wouldn't call this a gay film at all. Categorizing this in BL genre is also pretty much borderline. There is no BL or romance as such, this film is more of a comedy that uses queer themes to explore a dangerous dynamic between the vampire and the boy. Adapted by a manga and an anime series of same name, I would not wanna see the anime now, especially since, there is in't too much of BL content here. Yes, it is funny but thats about it. Mori is a 450 year old vampire. Injured one day, he is taken home by a 5 year old boy Rihito. Since then, Mori has lived with Rihito and his family. He was given a cleaning job at their bathhouse. Mori works at night, rests during the day, and keeps a low-key routine. Mori has told the family he is vampire, but they all joke about it and cal it his 'persona'. Years have passed and Rihito is now 15. Mori always craves for young virgin blood and has his eyes on Rihito since he will turn 18 in three more years, but he also loves h...

This mockumentary series, is not gay series. The two lead actors play almost all roles, including female and gay characters and the sensibilities of the humor is something that might align better with gay audience and hence the review here. The idea of the series is to poke fun at flying at the friendly skies. The duo portray nearly 50 different characters who work at or pass through the fictional airport's imaginary terminal, from pilots, stewardesses and baggage handlers to coffee-kiosk workers and assorted traveling couples. Also it is important to remember that this series came back in 2010. The show has 6 episodes of about 30 minutes each. The series satirizes people who have the time and money to use airports regularly - people with respectable dayjobs, authority and status; people with a shot at a managerial role. It features a wide array of characters such as owner of low-cost airline FlyLo Omar Baba, work-shy coffee kiosk worker Precious Little, highly camp passenger liais...

This series was sooo boring and bad, I can't even begin to explain. I really tried to give this a chance, but it just kept getting repetitive and there was absolutely nothing exciting about it. The storyline is painfully slow with constant body-switching and trust me it is not in an interesting way Thankfully the show as 10 episodes of 30-35 minutes each, but I can't believe how bad it was. Sun (a teacher) and Nuea ( a flamboyant gay)  are in a relationship but their sex life is not going well since Sun can't get it up. After various doctors visits, Sun decides to go to a shaman. The guy gives him a soap to wash himself with on a full moon night but make sure he is alone when doing that. As Sun drops the soap into the bath and gets ready for shower Nuea appears and forces himself to join him (no explanation on why couldn't Sun tell him the truth). The lights start to flicker and when they wake up they realize they have switched bodies. After the initial screams and conf...

This documentary tells the story of people who transformed into their true selves. Everyone has labels, but let's imagine a future without them. Three members of Toronto’s trans community who graciously share their stories in Unlabelled. Each in different stages of their transitions, Lucah, Emery, and Lucy open up about identity and gender dysphoria, their experiences with hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery, and their unique paths to becoming the extraordinary individuals they are today. The doc highlights the diversity of trans experiences, sharing not only the painful moments of their journeys, but also the abundance of joy, love, and community each has found.  Each one may have started off in fear and not being able to be who they who they knew they were, or were trying to figure it out, but in the end, they found their sense of community and people who love them, and they were able to become the people who they want to be. They graciously take us on a journey through ...

11 Blocks to Go: The Bet (USA) Samantha, a free-spirited hapless romantic, discovers her 30-something-year-old BFF Drew, a gay high-functioning drug-addled sex addict, hosting an orgy in lieu of honoring his personal commitments. With help from a mutual BFF, Gray, Samantha seeks Drew out for an intervention, leading Samantha and Drew to a showstopping bet. The film tries to be funny and sassy but somehow it's just not. Anatomia Di Un Rapporto (Italy) [Anatomy Of A Relationship] As two men explore their relationship, they test the boundaries of their physical and emotional desires. As the action gets more intense, the sense of intimacy begins to change. Things turn aggressive, and intimacy starts to give way to something darker. Mostly silent film of 5 min duration , this film is visually appealing but almost makes no sense. Eclissi Di Un Rapporto (Italy) [Eclipse Of A Relationship] Made by the same makers as above, another almost silent, the film follows two men in a difficult rela...

Was this sequel needed? Probably not, but I am still not complaining. These vertical shows help me keep my mind on something while I use the treadmill. Having said that it was nice to see Gabe and Seb again in a familiar setting with the continuation of the story with some new people. Oh well, here we go. Seb and Gabe are ow happily married but this season starts with Gabe getting attacked, while Seb is out in Mexico. When he. Comes back, he finds out that Gabe has amnesia, has lost his memory to certain extent and is. Now about to marry a girl. He tries to interfere the wedding but when he realizes that Gabe doesn't remember anything, he pulls back. He then gets himself hired as one of the bodyguards for Gabe and every time Gabe sees and touches Seb, he feels deja vu, as of he knows this man from somewhere. Meanwhile Gabe's wife wants to have sex with him but he keeps avoiding the situation and in th process keeps coming closer to Seb and spending more time with him. Meanwhile...

This vertical series includes the usual tropes of mafia, straight suddenly turning gay, some really hot men, some disgruntled women and some past that links that two main characters. Of course don't forget the cringy romance scene and at times bad acting, but then there is something about these shows that make me keep coming back to these. On his wedding day Gabe finds out that his fiancé is cheating on him with his step brother. But to acquire company's shares, he needs to be married by 25 , and so he decides to make a bizarre decision to marry this guy Sebastian, who suddenly came hiding in his closet running away from goos. Seb agrees because he recognized Gabe from 4 years ago an dhow he save this life, but Gabe has no memory. Seb is the heir to Brooklyn Mafia gang, but before he could tell Gabe this, Gabe makes it very clear about his hatred for mafia folks, since they were the ones responsible for his mother's death. Seb now tries his various ways to make sure that Ga...

Light hearted BL series are always welcome. Sometimes you have have to laugh about the silly premise and also ignore the whole practicality of it to enjoy it. This is what I did initially in this show, but eventually towards the end it became too convoluted and boring to care about any of the character like I did for theorist few episodes. The series is 10 episodes of about 45 minutes each. Junior is a penguin born and raised in a zoo, where he and his brother, Little, perform for adoring crowds. One day he gets magical powers in the zoo to become a human and he does that. Confused by what has happened, he ventures out and stumbles upon a boarding school. It turns out that a spirit Mina has been helping hi out to get in school. As a new student, Junior tries to fit in by joining extracurricular activities, but most clubs fail to catch his interest, till he finds swimming club and he is better than everyone there. He meets another student Sun, a quiet and introverted. When swimming team...

Set in mid 90s, this film set in Boston, follows a thirty-year-old gay man who attempts to get his life in order while living with his actress mother. It is a simple coming of age drama, that probably was quite novel for its time back in 96. The story itself is simple, with not much happening and a lot of it can just be watched fast forwarding quite a bit of content, because most of it is around our lead hanging out with queer artists and there is not much from a plot perspective. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, gay guy Andrew's life is going nowhere. He still stays home with his theatre actress mother. HIs close friend is his uncle, an artist and a confidant and is also gay. His closest friend is Lucy who works in the art studio with him and is lesbian but constantly bickers with her girlfriend. Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. But neither of his family thinks it's a good idea. He find out about h...

This Taiwaneses series is about Supernatural, reincarnation, soul swapping and all that jazz. This 12 episode, 30 minute each series looks at some interesting twist in the story, but it makes you wonder that when you fall in love, do you all for body or soul or somewhere in between. If the person you hate to the core suddenly starts changing, will you start falling in love with them? Haiyuan and Zefang go to same university and despise each other. Although Defang is a bit of playboy and wants to sleep with the usually reserved Haiyuan. Once at their home visit (they are neighbors), Defang and his grandfather swap their should when they fall off the stairs. The body of grandpa dies but Defang survives with the soul dog grandpa inside. After various attempts at explaining this to everyone, Haiyuan is finally convinced about the soul swapping since there is considerable change in Zefang's behavior. Thus begins their cohabitation tenure because grandpa is decades old and doesn’t know a...

This is your standard BL movie. If you've seen a lot of BL movies or shows, then you won't find nothing great or even different about this one. IT is simply ordinary. The actors are new, I would suppose, but they did a decent job. The film is almost 2 hours long , which honestly it did not need to because some scenes are stretched being reasoning, just for the sake of it and honestly it is very monotonous. Ask and his girlfriend are headed out for a holiday to an island. On their way there, they meet Chai. Turns out that Aek and Chai used to be schoolmates and in fact roommates in school. The trip decide to hang out together and one night Aek and Chai are alone and they remember their school days. The entire film is then in flashback. Chai is a new student in school who ends up being Aek's roommate. Both of them are into sports. Very soon they becomes great friends, taking care of each other, eating, laughing, playing together and all is well. Secretly Chai has a crush on A...

Jia (Australia) Ming arrives in Australia to mourn her late son Yao. She embarks on a road trip with Eric, who she learns was in a romantic relationship with him, which challenges her conservative Chinese values. Their journey takes them through rural Victoria - where Ming scatters sand from Yao's hometown across the last places he travelled - eventually finding a shared language in their suffering. Beautiful, almost silent film. Realness With A Twist (UK) The film is about one man's balancing act between his love of football and his love of voguing. Torn between what seems like two completely different worlds, he struggles with considering his future in the sport. When an important opportunity opens up, he has to consider what the sport and his safety means to him. Ted & Noel (Documentary) (UK) After losing his partner, Noel, a devastated Ted Brown questions the impact of his activism and struggles to mount a new campaign. Can Ted find the strength for one last fight for L...