The Love Patient
I have no idea why I chose to watch this intensely irritating comedy when I found the whole premise of the story so offensive. Maybe just like the movie’s protagonist I am pretty and shallow too and was simply wooed by the images of hunky half naked men on the DVD cover, either way it … Continue reading
The Royal Road
Jenni Olsen’s cinematic essay based around the Camino Real which was once the main route from California to Mexico is a very esoteric nostalgic look at the rapidly changing landscape between San Francisco and Las Angeles. Part history lesson, part tribute to all the Missions that line the route, and part recounting of an impossible … Continue reading
Undressing Israel : Gay Men In The Promised Land
Gay porn mogul Michael Lucas and his co-director Yariv Moser start their documentary in dismissing some of the widely held misconceptions that people around the world have about Israel. That everyone rides around on camels, and secondly that the country is always at war. But in the next 45 minutes they quickly replace them with … Continue reading
Walk A Mile In My Pradas
Big butch Tony who’s obsessively homophobic takes umbrage when he is forced to work with Steve his Boss’s nephew who is obviously gay because he wears Prada shoes. (Don’t yell at me, I didn’t wrote this plot!) Tony makes no attempt to hide his repulsion and things almost comes to blows between the two men … Continue reading
Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
Anna has just turned 40. She’s a chubby Cuban/American lesbian filmmaker, lonely, depressed and with more than a generous helping of self-pity that she loves to wallow in. At her birthday party to mark her entry into middle-age she wears a giant vagina costume which may get her the odd performing gig at a trendy … Continue reading