The Disgustings (2014)

The Disgustings (2014)

There is abundance of assholes around

The Disgustings (2014)
a US short film by Jordan Firstman

A comedic short film about a day in the life of two best friends, one an egocentric complainer and the other a judgmental ruthless witch, both ridiculous narcissists.

Picture This! Boys Briefs.avi - 6 short gay themed movies

Picture This! Boys Briefs

File size: 591 MB
Running time: 1: 23: 05
Container: AVI
Video: Divx5 MPEG-4 Codec; 416x304 (1.33) @ 29.97 fps; 856 kbps (ave)
Audio: MPEG Layer-3 128 Kbps (stereo); 48000 Hz

Director: Sam Zalutsky, Simon Chung
Staring: Michael Saucedo, Jason T. Tobin.
Studio: Picture This!
Released: 1999

Six short films about homosexual awakening are gathered together in one easy to manage file. Some are good, some are not, and the two hosts (picked primarily for their cutie pie looks) annoy immediately. The six films are reviewed individually:

The Absolution of Anthony (Directed by Dean Slotar)
Anthony (Joe Quintero) lives with his grandfather (Carlos Rafart), makes obscene phone calls, pines for basketball playing Joe (Gary Cohen), and is the focus of concern for Father Carson (Victor Garber). This ends abruptly, there are too many close-ups. 

Smear (Directed by Sam Zalutsky)
Davey (Marc Fratello) pines for his straight friend Frank (Steven Amato), who prefers to spend time with girlfriend Jennie (Liat Goldman). The three goof around at a local park, before Davey commits a startling act of violence. Again, more film would have helped, Fratello looks a lot like Hilary Swank from "Boys Don't Cry".

Front Room (Directed by P.Y. Clouin)
A guy licks an unknown body part, which turns out to be his bicep, for under a minute. What film festival would take this kind of one-joke material over films that might have something to say? Dumb. 

Fairy Tale (Directed by David Kittredge)
This is by far the best of the compilation. Partners Todd (Terrance Flynn) and Eric (Eric M. Cole) go to Todd's hometown to visit his mother Eleanor (Paula Roth) on his birthday. Eleanor dislikes Eric, despite his best efforts, and Todd does something that angers his loving partner, as well. While some of the dialogue is too soap operatic (Eleanor will never have grandkids, Todd can't have sex in his parents' house), Flynn and Cole have such a good chemistry that I could believe them as a couple. There are some weird "Little Red Riding Hood" allegories at work here, but this is the better of the six films. 

Piglets (Directed by Luc Feit)
This German film plays like one of those racy foreign ads you see on television clip shows sometimes, and it is very funny if not too short. Two men try to make love as an elderly woman in the next room keeps distracting them with normal things like loud music...and a giant drill. Definitely oddball, but I thought it was different enough

Beloved Stanley (Directed by Simon Chung)
Kevin (Wes Wong) is a mixed race teen who is being shipped off to an English boarding school away from his best friend James (Oliver Williams) and his beloved Stanley section of Hong Kong. Not much happens, their possible homosexual relationship is only hinted at, but the locations and great editing save this from being just another coming of age story.

Enjoy!

Adults Only (2013) by Michael J. Saul

Adults Only (2013) 
a 26-minute dialogue-free atmospheric, sensual and sensitive short film written by Heath Daniels and directed by Michael J. Saul

Visions of a past relationship leave Matthew broken and isolated until an intimate encounter at a porn arcade opens a peephole to unexpected possibilities.

The question the film asks isn’t so much whether sex should be left to adults, as to whether intimacy might be something one cannot truly achieve or maintain before reaching a certain level of emotional experience. Daniels communicates pain and heartbreak, but by the end of the 26-minute running time he also projects a sense of new found maturity.

Tonight it's me (2014)

Tonight it's me (2014)

Tonight it’s me (2014) - directed by: Dominic Haxton; country: United States
A hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who’s far from the “johns” he’s used to servicing ... (IMDB)

IMDB tt3606394

original English with NO subtitles (824x350 px; 23,98 fps)

RATAS (2012)

Ratas (2012) - directed by: Jota Linares; country: Spain
Nico and Nani hate each other at first sight. The guilty one has a name, Paul. There are many things that separate Nani and Nico but a giant kitchen knife will make them realize that they have a strong bond in common: neither of them will stop at nothing to get Paul. Because love and sex are red ... so is blood. And in this Slasher virgins don’t need to survive ... (IMDB)

IMDB tt3228750

original Spanish with English hardsubtitles

ADULTS ONLY (2013)

Adults only (2013)

... pushing through the curtain, he is ushered into a fluorescent maze of hallways leading to private booths; cracked doors and skillfully placed peepholes offer a voyeuristic view of intense and intimate exchanges; Matthew thinks he is only there to watch ...

Adults only (2013) - directed by: Michael J. Saul; country: United States
Matthew is haunted by recurring memories of a lost love. Like an old black and white film on an endless loop, scenes from the past make sleep impossible. He spends his days riding the subway, walking the streets, unable to relate to anyone. Walking home one late night, Matthew observes two men hurriedly leaving an adult porn arcade. He quietly follows them to a secluded alley where they begin to have passionate sex. Matthew watches from the shadows and photographs them, unable to take his eyes off their primal connection. The following night, he returns and enters the arcade ... (official site)

IMDB tt2580714

original English with NO subtitles (720x404 px; 29,97 fps)