Tag: 2011
Sal
James Franco continues his somewhat unhealthy fixation with gay history and culture in his latest turn behind the camera. His new movie was on Sal Mineo the ‘out’ gay actor who starred along James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and who was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actor Oscars. However it was hardly a…
Hold Your Peace
Forrest and Max have only been dating a few months before they decide to have a Commitment Ceremony. Trouble is that Max seems to have few friends so the only person he can think to ask to stand as his best man is his ex-boyfriend Aiden. They haven’t seen each other since their bitter break-up but…
SHUN LI AND THE POET
Shun Li is a barmaid at small working men’s cafe in a sleepy lagoon town just north of Venice. Her job is the price that she must pay for being able to leave China for which she is totally beholden to her shady Chinese employers, and once they decide her debt is paid they will bring over…
Absent aka Ausente
16 year old Martin Blanco claims to have something in his eye, so Sebastian his High School Swimming Coach whisks him out of Class and takes him to the Eye Hospital Emergency Room. The doctors give him the all clear, so the teacher offers to drive him home. School is over for the day, and Martin realises…
YOU WILL BE MY SON
Paul has always imitated and bullied his rather meek adult son Martin. He blames his wife’s premature death on the sheer stress of looking after puny Martin in his difficult childhood, and although his son has worked hard to take his place in the family winemaking business, he still does not have either the love…
