A Polish Gay Series About an Unlikely New Father: Proud
When a hard-living model suddenly has to care for a baby, his chaotic existence takes an unexpected turn. Poland’s Proud follows Filip, played by the striking Ignacy ...
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Pier Groups by Arch Brown: Desire and Uncertainty at the Waterfront
An abandoned waterfront site links the contrasting lives of two New York neighbors in Arch Brown’s adult film Pier Groups. Joe (John Kovacs), who is straight, is assigned to ...
A grieving teacher and a troubled teenager at the center of THE HOLY BOY
Paolo Strippoli’s THE HOLY BOY combines drama with genre cinema through the encounter between Sergio, a depressed teacher, and Matteo, a gay teenager whose mysterious powers ...
ROSEBUSH PRUNING: Karim Aïnouz turns wealth, beauty and family into a vicious dark comedy
Karim Aïnouz follows Praia do futuro and Motel Destino with ROSEBUSH PRUNING, a fierce and deeply divisive dark comedy about an immensely wealthy ...
Lately, It\’s Winter Season (Thai Series)
Across six years, Tiger and Nao move from an awkward first meeting to a shared home, a university life and, eventually, a relationship. Their story begins at football tryouts, ...
The Nance – Live From Lincoln Center (Stage Play)
By the time The Nance reaches its final image, Chauncey Miles is almost entirely alone. The theater around him is closing, the ceiling begins to give way, and he remains ...
Stop! That! Train!
The strongest joke in Stop! That! Train! may simply be the sight of RuPaul as US president Judy Gagwell. It was the one gag that genuinely made me laugh in a movie otherwise ...
Hara Kiri
The central problem with this experimental indie is not merely that its two leads are difficult to like; it is that the film gives their destructive behavior no meaningful ...
My Grandpa Is A BL Writer (Thai Series)
The strongest part of this twelve-episode drama is not its publishing plot or even its romance. It is the family at its center: a grandfather, his grandson, the relatives ...
The Male Gaze: Breaking Dawn
Five Short Films About Boys Trying to Find Their Place NQV Media’s short film series brings together stories about boys caught in difficult, often confusing stages of ...
Contrast (Japanese Series)
Akira and Kanata seem unlikely to become close. They move through school in completely different ways, yet a staircase leading to the terrace gradually becomes the one place ...
Tip Toe (UK Series)
It’s been a while since Russell T Davies released a new show, so Tip Toe was pretty much guaranteed a spot near the top of my watch list. This feels very much like a ...
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Amor es Amor (Spanish) [Love Is Love]
This is exactly the sort of wildly over the top 90s gay comedy that you really can’t treat seriously, and honestly, that’s basically why it works at all. If you go ...
The Disappointments: Season 1 (Web Series)
Honestly, I’m kind of shocked this stayed off my radar for so long because I’m only just hearing about it now. This crowdfunded comedy drama follows three gay best ...
The Disappointments: Season 2 (Web Series)
The second season of this comedy about three middle aged gay friends juggling work and love has finally landed on their YouTube channel. There was a pretty sizable wait ...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please (Documentary)
Using oral histories, this documentary explores a very particular chapter of New York gay life in America. In 2014, a box packed with hundreds of letters was discovered in an ...
Juice by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.: A Gay Photographer on a Mission
Review of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s film Juice, which follows a gay photographer who must find new models for a magazine. Light and sexy. With this feature film, Arthur J. ...
My Romance Scammer (Thai Series)
Sadly, this series falls into the same trap most GMM shows do. I really wanted it to be good because the premise genuinely had potential. And honestly, it starts out strong: ...
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Quinze Dias (Portuguese) [Here The Whole Time]
This coming-of-age movie follows two teenage guys who seem completely opposite on paper, even though they’re both carrying baggage from their past. We get to watch them deal ...
The Stepbrother I Hate to Love (Vertical BL Drama)
How can there be such a dearth of stories that these vertical filmmakers keep recycling the same 5-6 story permutations and combinations, just mixing and matching them? It’s ...
Standing Tall (The Activist): A Gay Film Noir in Lithuania
Review of Romas Zabaraukas’s film Standing Tall (The Activist), which immerses us in a film noir-flavoured investigation set against the backdrop of LGBT rights. A political ...
LAUGHTER AND THE KNIFE: Pedro Pinho’s sensual, human odyssey
Review of Pedro Pinho’s film Laughter and the Knife, which follows a bisexual Portuguese engineer on an odyssey in Guinea-Bissau. A contemplative arthouse film poised between ...
SECRET RELATIONSHIPS (Boyslove Series): 3 Boys Crazy About Him
Review of the BL series Secret Relationships, which follows a young man caught in a love square involving three very different—and possibly toxic—admirers. Secret ...
300 SWEET WORDS (300 Letters) by Lucas Santa Ana: A Toxic Gay Breakup
A review of Lucas Santa Ana’s film 300 SWEET WORDS (aka “300 letters” / “300cartas”), which plunges us into the heart of a particularly toxic gay breakup. After Bromance and ...
THE SUSPENDED BREATH: A gay romantic thriller set in the world of dance
Review of Juan Briseño’s film The Suspended Breath (Seré breve al momento de morir). A tense gay love triangle set in the world of dance. A low-budget Mexican film, The ...
HAG, a film by Sam Wineman: obsessed with her gay friend
Review of Sam Wineman’s film HAG. A passionate thriller about a gay man and an obsessive female friend who does not wish him entirely well. What would Fatal Attraction look ...
The Mirror by Noel Alejandro: a breakup film unlike any other
A review of Noel Alejandro’s film The Mirror, an original and poetic short film about a gay breakup. Noel Alejandro continues to explore his favourite themes—loss, ...
THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD: Homophobia in a Romanian Village
Review of Emanuel Parvu’s film Three Kilometres to the End of the World. A poignant portrait of a boy subjected to homophobia in a Romanian village. Although its form is not ...
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 ...
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 ...