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Posts Tagged "gay lead character"

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Shelter **** (2007, Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes) – Classic Movie Review 12,329

Writer/ director Jonah Markowitz’s super-nice, tremendously optimistic 2007 feel-good romantic drama gay movie Shelter is persuasively done, with a winning performance by Trevor Wright as Zach, a slightly lost aspiring young artist living in San Pedro, […]

Oct, 15

Benediction **** (2021, Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels) – Movie Review

Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi lead Terence Davies’s 2021 drama film Benediction, based on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, also starring late actor Julian Sands. The 2021 biographical drama film Benediction is written […]

Mar, 25

Cop Secret [Leynilögga] **½ (2021, Auðunn Blöndal, Egill Einarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir) – Movie Review

The crazily quirky 2021 Icelandic gay action comedy film Cop Secret [Leynilögga] is directed by footballer Hannes Þór Halldórsson from his screenplay with Nína Pedersen and Sverrir Þór Sverrisson, based on a fake movie trailer […]

Mar, 23

Boy Culture **** (2006, Derek Magyar, Darryl Stephens, Patrick Bauchau, Jonathon Trent, George Jonson, Kyle Santler) – Classic Movie Review 12,022

Director Q Allan Brocka’s 2006 American romantic drama film Boy Culture is based on Matthew Rettenmund’s 1995 novel, and stars Derek Magyar, Darryl Stephens, Patrick Bauchau, Jonathon Trent, and Emily Brooke Hands. It’s Seattle, Washington, […]

Mar, 22

Boy Culture: The Series *** (2021, Derek Magyar, Darryl Stephens, Jason Caceres) – Movie Review

Q Allan Brocka’s comedy Boy Culture had its world premiere at the BFI Flare festival in 2006 and this 2021 six-part continuation story sequel, Boy Culture: The Series, strung together as a standalone drama feature, […]

Mar, 21

That Certain Summer **** (1972, Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Scott Jacoby, Hope Lange, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 10,301

Director Lamont Johnson’s 1972 American made-for-TV drama film That Certain Summer, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, is a pioneer as the first to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. As well as being a historic […]

Sep, 14

Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review

Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]

Oct, 09

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