Love Or Whatever

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Love or Whatever is the story of Corey, a good-hearted guy who seems to have it all - a successful career as a therapist, an exuberant amount of charm and a pair of gorgeous engagement rings; ready to pop the question to his long-term, hot jock boyfriend. But, when his better half commits the ultimate betrayal and dumps him, Corey stumbles and fumbles through a wild and hilarious journey of self-discovery. Caught between his feisty, lesbian sister Kelsey and his hunky, smoldering new love interest Pete, and the hopelessly confused, "flexi-sexual" ex-boyfriend Jon, Corey is faced with a decision that could change his life forever. (c) TLA Releasing



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Corey had it all - a successful career, a sister who's his best friend and most of all, a bright future with his boyfriend. But, when the boyfriend dumps him for a woman, Corey sets off on a wild journey of self-discovery that leads him to new love and a life-changing choices.


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Make the Yuletide Gay

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Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his family. He keeps his cool as his quirky Midwestern-hearted parents try to set him up with his high school sweetheart, Abby. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?

- Written by Anonymous


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An out-and-proud college student wrestles with revealing his true sexuality to his parents when he comes home for Christmas break and his boyfriend decides to pay him a surprise visit. At school, everyone knows that Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson is gay; at home, it's a much different story. Bidding his boyfriend Nathan goodbye, Olaf heads home to find that his parents have fixed him up on a date with his old high school sweetheart Abby. When Nathan comes knocking unannounced, he can't quite believe that Olaf hasn't come out to his parents. Later, as the boys scramble to keep Olaf's sexuality a secret from his parents, the conversations grow increasingly inquisitive and Olaf must decide whether to come out before the truth does.

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You Should Meet My Son

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Review: ‘You Should Meet My Son’

June 7, 2011

Joanne McGee and Steve Snyder in "You Should Meet My Son"

A while back I featured the gay indie You Should Meet My Son as a Queer Corner Spotlight. It was making a hefty impact on the gay film festival circuit. Keith Hartman (the movie’s writer and director) contacted Queer Corner recently with news of the movie’s several festival awards and impending DVD release. He also sent over a preview copy of the DVD. So I took a gander and here are some of my thoughts on the film…

The movie begins with Conservative Southern widow Mae Davis (Joanne McGee) and her sister, Rose  (Carol Goans), parading Mae’s 30-year-old son, Brian (Stewart Carrico), before a series of hopeful bachelorettes as his “roommate” Dennis sits smirking beside him. So when Mae discovers through ease-dropping that her only son is gay, she has a small breakdown before deciding to switch gears and find her son a husband instead. The crux of the film consists of aMae and Rose’s Excellent Adventure of sorts through the gay and drag queen community.

Hartman is an award winning author (The Gumshoe, The Witch, and The Virtual Corpse) who’s only film credits include a few popular satiric shorts about the Prop 8 vote in California, but he successfully transfers that sharp wit into his first feature.Son is chock full of heart and witty dialog and Hartman’s script somehow puts a new twist on an old tale.

Operating in the same comedic thread as Sordid Lives and The Birdcage,Son does showcase some pretty clichéd LGBT-related images. The conservative mother crying hysterically over the discovery that her son is gay. A metrosexual, yet still masculine male, who thinks his mother would have a heart attack if she discovered he’s gay. An overly sexualized gay bar complete with gogo boys, drag queens and leather daddies (though it’s highly unlikely you’d find all of these in a small town gay bar). And there’s even a drag queen makeover of a unsuspecting straight female. But Hartman’s delightful cast adds striking nuance to what could have been an ensemble of caricatures.

 At the center of film and the movie’s most endearing quality is McGee as the affable Mae. McGee puts in a beautiful and often hilarious performance as a mother who discovers that she all she wants is her son to be happy, and will go to nearly any lengths to make it so. She and Carrico share one of the sweetest scenes I’ve ever seen in indie queer cinema when she says,  “If this world won’t give you the things that you want — love, kids, a family — then I am going to have to change the world, because I will not have it change you!”

McGee and Groans as also the film’s highlight, a hoot as a senior Laverne and Shirley-like comedic team. And a third act dinner party with Mae and Rose’s new friends from their gay bar adventures features a lot of overacting, but is entertaining to say the least.

I did think the movie suffered a bit from operating on extremes. A second act reveal from Brian  that threw me for a bit of a loop, seemed unnecessary, but it did introduce a new character (Ginger Pullman’s vapid, yet infectious Jennie Sue) into the mix that was definitely entertaining. And the surprise appearance of a nude George Bush painting at the end, though intriguing, was distracting and took too much time away from the storyline.

But as someone who grew up and still lives in a very backwards, non-progressive small town, Hartman offered some very real and relatable moments in Mae and Rose’s reactions to their many discoveries throughout the film. (A scene where the sisters are trying to figure out the internet could have easily been a direct reference to my own computer illiterate mother and aunts!) And as any successful movie always does, it not only made me laugh, but it touched an emotional chord. I found myself wishing that the Mae’s and Rose’s in my life would go on similar journeys of self-realization and acceptance.

You Should Meet My Son was released on DVD today and is a heartfelt and hilarious comedy you should definitely add to you queer cinema collection.

IMDb

A fish-out-of-water comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won't go through life alone, she sets out to find him a husband.

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Leather

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Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.


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Review - Leather

Patrick McGuinn's film is one that values country living over city living. It values rugged, hairy manliness over soft, smooth effeminacy.

Broadway star Andrew Glaszek plays Andy, a ginger beefcake and NYU grad of indeterminate profession who essentially has to choose between his childhood friend, Birch, played by Chris Graham, and his current boyfriend, Kyle, played by Jeremy Neal.

Birch is a well-built, bearded, hirsute, mountain man who very much lives off the woods and who specializes in crafting things like leather sandals. He seems very much heterosexual. Kyle is a petite, hairless twink who is into fashion, and in a Truman Capote or James Bond villain-move, Kyle carries around his pet rabbit. Kyle is almost stereotypically gay. Yes, Kyle is girly, whereas Birch is butch. Kyle is a city girl, whereas Birch is a country boy.

The majority of the movie takes place in what might be a weekend. When Andy's father, Walter, dies, Andy and Kyle go to Walter's house in the woods to settle things and find that Birch has been living in the house for five years as Walter's caretaker. Andy's choice seems apparent. Yet, because the choice is a no-brainer and is the most predictable thing ever, screenwriter Greg Chandler doesn't make the love triangle the principal conflict. The principal conflict is that Walter was possibly homophobic and not a good father to Andy, but Birch continues to champion Walter as a changed person and a good man. Therefore, the tug of war is if Andy will accept Birch's claim about his father.

This conflict, however, is never truly resolved. We assume by the end that Andy simply accepts Birch's word, but McGuinn never gives Andy a moment to make peace with his father's memory.

Yes, we accept that Andy and Birch will hook up and of course McGuinn depicts their sex scene in true rustic glory, essentially two naked men rolling in the grass. It's accentuated by McGuinn's choice to shoot on actual 16mm film, giving the whole movie a grainy, rustic look.

Unfortunately, there is a confusion of what Birch truly feels for Andy. Andy clearly loves Birch and says as much, but what Birch feels remains a mystery. We don't know if Birch reciprocates Andy's feelings or if he's just going along with the situation. Birch's relationship with a woman at the beginning is so fleeting that one wonders how attached he is. Birch doesn't even identify as either gay or straight or bisexual. He's just whatever. Birch as a character just floats.

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Truth

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• A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb, who suffers from borderline personality disorder, meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy, and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb's quest for the truth be revealed.
  - Written by Truth

HollywoodReporter

A gay relationship goes violently awry in Rob Moretti's graphic psychological thriller.

As gay-themed cinema goes, Truth definitely veers towards the exploitative side. This psychological thriller presents a portrait of a relationship gone very, very wrong. But its Hitchcockian aspirations are sabotaged by a tendency towards lurid melodrama that is more laughable than chilling. Cult status at midnight screenings possibly looms if audiences can be persuaded to repeat chunks of the inane dialogue.

The story, told in flashbacks, concerns the ill-fated romance between young Caleb (Sean Paul Lockhart, who also co-produced) and the older, more stable Jeremy (writer/directorRob Moretti) after they connect on the Internet. It’s love at first sight, with the pair engaging in sweetly romantic activities and plenty of hot, torrid sex, with the latter depicted in graphic fashion and plenty of full-frontal nudity.

But it quickly becomes obvious that the hunky Caleb is deeply troubled and that things will go seriously awry, as indicated by the opening scene in which he’s seen in prison being interviewed by a solicitous therapist (Blanche Baker, of Sixteen Candles). It turns out that he was seriously abused by his mother as a child, and his medicine chest filled with psychotropic medications indicates that he’s clearly not recovered from the trauma. Surprisingly, neither the drugs nor the dramatic revelations are enough to scare off Jeremy, who after being told one horrific story soothingly intones, “That must have been really hard for you.”

Eventually, things take a violent turn, with Caleb handcuffing Jeremy to the bed and brutalizing him after learning about a hidden part of his life that spurs the film towards its surprise ending.

From the prison shrink asking Caleb, “How did that make you feel?” to a Mommie Dearest-style monologue by his mentally disturbed mother (Suzanna Didonna) in which the line “I cannot stand that I pushed out of my vagina” is one of the more subtle utterances, the dialogue is filled with one howler after another.

The frequently unclothed Lockhart, who’s better known as gay porn star Brent Corrigan, well fulfills the physical aspects of his role -- this is a film in which the underwear designer rightly gets a credit -- and Moretti is disarmingly appealing as the hapless lover. But for all their strenuous efforts, the performers are not able to infuse Truth with a single moment that feels remotely truthful.

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The Boys in the Band

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Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.


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MOVIE INFO

(1970) "You show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse." In what Pauline Kael likened to "the gathering of bitchy ladies in The Women, but with a 40s-movie bomber crew cast," eight queens including nelly Cliff Gorman ("I'm your topless cocktail waitress"), an is-he? or isn't-he? closet case, and one midnight cowboy party favor gather in a Greenwich Village apartment for the birthday of self-described "ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy" Leonard Frey (later Motel the Tailor in Fiddler on the Roof) but nasty host Kenneth Nelson insists on playing those truth games. Alternately hilarious, contrived, gut-wrenching and sentimental, Crowley's pathbreaking play moved from headline-making Off-Broadway smash to the first American movie exclusively about male homosexuals (using miracle of miracles the original New York cast in its entirety), a subject that had previously been a Hollywood no-no ("And it still is," the author points out) although the movie was still slapped with an R rating for its "homosexual dialogue." And although its hoary stereotypes caused grumblings from a burgeoning gay rights movement, as Vito Russo noted in The Celluloid Closet, it offered "the best and most potent argument for gay liberation ever offered in a popular art form" within two years of its release, two dozen movies with gay themes emerged. And its endless barrage of catty zingers introduced the mainstream moviegoer to the joys of "gay humor."

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Best Day Ever

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• David's turning 50 and having a Mid-life Crisis! He isn't sure his "perfect husband" loves him, and if he's chosen the right career. Aging is something he never thought about, but now he is faced with making the rest of his life count and hopes his close friends can help. Realizing that he may only have about 35 years left, he must figure out his life to ensure happiness and fulfillment. Fate changes everything when he meets a 15-year younger man who shows him that age does not matter, and that maybe his future happiness is right in front of him. Based on the true story of filmmaker Jeff London and how after being single for 48 years, his life changed when he met the love of his life and found his true purpose.
  - Written by Radioactive Cactus Entertainment

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David's turning 50 and having a Mid-life Crisis! He isn't sure his "perfect husband" loves him, and if he's chosen the right career. Aging is something he never thought about, but now he is faced with making the rest of his life count and hopes his close friends can help. Realizing that he may only have about 35 years left, he must figure out his life to ensure happiness and fulfillment.

Fate changes everything when he meets a 15-year younger man who shows him that age does not matter, and that maybe his future happiness is right in front of him. Based on the true story of filmmaker Jeff London and how after being single for 48 years, his life changed when he met the love of his life and found his true purpose. Starring Mel England, Tom Saporito and Peter Stickles.

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Jitters

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• A 16-year old Icelandic boy's first kiss with another boy gives him "jitters"--feelings he can't deny. This is a well-written film that captures the confusion and excitement of being a teenager, with an attractive ensemble cast. The film follows the lives of several teens and the challenges they face, in particular with their parents/guardians.
  - Written by X-topher Budz

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Plot Summary 
An Icelandic teenager (Atli Oskar Fjalarsson) begins a relationship with a guy in the U.K. and tries to come out to his friends, who are dealing with sexual issues of their own.

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Unfinished Business

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A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable - and unimaginable.


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MOVIE INFO

A hard-working small business owner (Vince Vaughn) and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable - and unimaginable - way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit. (c) Fox

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LamontRaymond

It's an amusing movie, and Vince Vaughn really makes it funny. As does Bro Franco. Lot more dicks and breasts than I expected, but also a lot more belly laughs. if you go in with modest expectations, you'll have a great time. Tom Wilkinson brings a dash of credibility to the proceedings. And Sienna Miller is also terrific in a small role. It's just not all that ambitious of a movie. But a good time. 

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