All Male, All Nude (and All Disappointing)

No matter what its management may hype it up as, Swinging Richards is just another Strip Club.  Albeit an all male one where each night some 72 dancers get totally naked to play ‘helicopters’ with their large flaccid penises right in the faces of their very willing mostly-male audiences. It is evidently the only club … Continue reading

Flatbush Luck

Swedish/American filmmaker Casper Andreas specializes in formulaic gay-lite comedies with cliched ridden plots and characters that usually rely on being easy on the eye as their main selling point.  This latest one about two attractive cousins who work as phone repairmen in Brooklyn and stumble on a get-rich-quick scheme is about the same as his previous efforts … 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

Is That A Gun In Your Pocket?

When 10 year old Lance  (Garren Stitt) ‘borrows’ one of his Dad’s guns to take to school to show to his best friend, the two of  them get into a scrap and accidentally fire a couple of shots in the air. When Lance and his parents are hauled in front of the School Principal who … Continue reading

Concrete Night

One can only imagine when the Finnish Film Academy submitted Concrete Night as the country’s official submission for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar in 2014, that the Finnish Tourist Authorities must have had a royal fit. This deeply disturbing story is shot in a bleak unforgiving depressing public housing project in one of Helsinki’s rougher … Continue reading

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