My Personal Weatherman: Boys\’ Love and Power Dynamics
Review of My Personal Weatherman, a BL series portraying a relationship between a highly unequal couple. Boys\' Love series are fond of opposites attracting and power dynamics ...
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NO REGRET: a film about a troubled gay romance in Seoul
Review of the film NO REGRET by Hee-il Leesong. Two boys from different backgrounds fall in love in Seoul in this troubled gay romance. Seoul, early 2000s. The handsome and ...
YURT, Nehir Tuna’s film: boarding school and intense male friendship
Review of Nehir Tuna’s film Yurt, a Turkish film blending politics, religion and crypto-gay male friendship. A Turkish drama about youth confronted with religion and the rise ...
The Blue Hour (Onthakan): Between Teenage Gay Romance and Ghostly Thriller
Review of the Thai gay film The Blue Hour, a unique work poised between teenage angst and fantasy. The screenwriter of the very interesting Boyslove series NOT ME, Anucha ...
MUSCLE: Hisayasu Satô’s rare, sulphurous film
A review of Hisayasu Satô’s film Muscle. A twisted relationship and obsession unfold in this strange feature film, which has become a cult classic. Muscle certainly cannot be ...
OH, OTTO!: an endearing gay romance series set in Brussels
A review of the series OH OTTO! by Stijn van Kerkhoven, following a young gay man from Brussels after a breakup. An engaging and endearing drama. A touching Belgian gay series ...
Silent Sparks, a film by Ping Chu: the unspoken desire of two former prisoners
A review of Silent Sparks, directed by Ping Chu, which follows the gay relationship between two former prisoners. The handsome Pua (Guan-Zhi Huang) tries to live a more or ...
I MISS YOU by Rodrigo Bellott: disappearance and healing
Review of Rodrigo Bellott’s film I Miss You. A drama inspired by a true story about persistent homophobia in Bolivia. In this sensitive and raw feature film, Bolivian director ...
THE PARTY POOPERS (Blue Lights) by Lucas Santa Ana: Dinner and Emotions
Review of Lucas Santa Ana’s film The Party Poopers (Blue Lights). An older gay couple welcomes friends for an emotion-filled dinner. In this queer, generational chamber piece, ...
THE WILD REGION (The Untamed) by Amat Escalante: Pleasure and Destruction
Review of the film The Wild Region (The Untamed) by Amat Escalante. A cinematic experience as strange as it is unsettling. This is not a comfortable viewing experience: this ...