comedy
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The Shiny Shrimps : The best thing in speedos between here and Mykonos
Let’s get the elephant in the swimming trunks out of the way. The thing stopping this joyful underdog comedy, about a gay water polo team, from becoming a hit is that it is French and subtitled. Somewhere an eagle-eyed film exec is probably about to cash in on an American translation with a known…
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Steam Room Stories : The Movie : a hammy comedy with semi-naked men
The one dependable thing about director JC Calciano’s LGBT comedies is that he never requires you to think much.. He never tries to over-complicate them so within the first 10 minutes you know the entire plot. He will never ever deviate from it, unless he can add a scenario that he can mine another…
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Bathroom Stalls & Parking Lots : the tepid truth
With a comedy titled Bathroom Stalls & Parking Lots you might be expecting a gay version of the 1960’s British classic camp film Carry on Up the Khyber. Don’t. And if that is what you are looking for then, let’s face it, isn’t a gay version of Carry on Up the Khyber basically Carry…
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HOLY LANDS : When Harry Met Piggy
If it wasn’t for the cast full of very well-known and celebrated actors, one could easily have mistaken that this sentimental melodrama was a Lifetime TV movie. Written and directed by French filmmaker Amanda Sthers and adapted from her own novel, its the preposterous story or retired Jewish American Cardiologist Harry Rosenmerck (James Caan)…
