ROSELAND : The Ballard of Bob Levine
It seems that right now when we think of drag it is not about the ubiquitous Ru Paul and the antics of her latest cast of wannabes, but about some of the doyens that started their long careers before TV had even been invented. Sadly we have just lost two major veterans …. … Continue reading
Saturday Church
When 14 year old Ulysses’s (Luka Kain) father suddenly dies, his mother (Margot Bingham) has to take on a second job to make ends meet. She somewhat reluctantly accepts an offer from Ulysses’ ultra-conservative Aunt Rose (Regina Taylor) to come to take care of him and his younger sibling after work until she gets home. The … Continue reading
Screwed
17-year-old Miku (Mikko Kauppila ) has been hanging on to his virginity so Sebi (Juho Keskitalo) his big brother arranges a party with the sole purpose of getting him laid the moment their parents leave town for the summer. That, and having the biggest rave that this sleepy Finnish town has ever seen. A very … Continue reading
Seeds (aka Cuernavaca) a Mexican coming-of-age story
After preadolescent Andy (Emilio Puente) sees his mother gets fatally shot in a random robbery, he is sent to live on the country estate of his paternal grandmother (the wonderful Carmen Maura) who he has never met before. She is rather cold and awkward with him and brushes off any enquiries of the whereabouts … Continue reading
Sexual Tension 1 : Volatile
Award-winning Argentinean gay filmmaker Marco Berger has teamed up with Marcelo Monaco, a fellow countryman of his who’s expertise is in gay porn, to make an anthology of short films that explore unconsummated desire. Both of them wrote & directed three stories, each of them focusing on men getting very close to together in various states … Continue reading