drama
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Starred Up
Violent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in them. ‘Starred Up’ with a brilliant career-making performance from 23 year old Jack O’Connell is one such movie especially as it has the near-obligatory shower scene that ends…
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Tiger Orange
Wade Gasque’s debut feature, which he co-wrote with lead actor Mark Strano, is an interesting drama about the conflict between two estranged gay brothers who are trying to reconcile after the death of their father. Their sexuality is one of the few things the siblings have in common as Chet is quiet and reserved and…
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Eat With Me
Filmmaker David Au’s debut feature film about an unhappy Chinese-American mother and her strained relationship with equally miserable son is as melodramatic as if it were an Asian type novella. Emma the mother sticks with her boring husband who completely neglects her until he wakes up in the middle of the night and insists on cutting his…
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Blackbird
Growing up gay in a small conservative town in the Deep South is tough enough, but as well as worrying about his religious parents reactions, 17 year-old choirboy Ricky is also concerned about upsetting Jesus too. Everybody in his close circle of school friends is more comfortable with his sexuality than he is, and even…
