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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!

El tercero (2014) The Third One

El tercero (2014) The Third One

Spanish with hardcoded Chinese and English subtitles

El tercero (2014) The Third One
an Argentinian drama written and directed by Rodrigo Guerrero

The old adage "rules are made to be broken" is put to excellent use in this captivating tale of a male threesome that intriguingly re-defines another mantra: share and share alike.

The seventy-minute history of this ménage à trios (featuring camera-friendly Emiliano Dionisi as Fede, the young man searching for his mother's absent love by worming his way into the bed of an eight-year partnership: well portrayed by Carlos Echevarría and Nicolás Armengol) is structured much more like a theatre play than cinema. 

As happens millions of times a day all around the globe, the online flirting, stripping and dares is presented honestly (with several quick cutaways to hard-core porn spicing up Fede's imagination while contemplating entering the dance with his very attentive admirers), but then the tone changes considerably as the young man summons his courage, showing up for a night of wine, food and fornication with virtual strangers.

The script's initial nervousness and awkward moments are ideally executed by the actors even as the wine has its effect and topics move from the comical (the monkey gag is a hoot) to much more serious fare. But of course, there has to be a first move to get the sexual fire lit; once made, it is soon clear that this will be a caring, mutually agreed upon encounter that—and so tastefully shot, making the earlier porn seem more tawdry than ever—is far more about love making than quick-release sex.

The following day opens with an enticing mystery, then a voyeuristic turn in the shower that subtly sets the stage for the sequel.


"I choose to believe that sexuality implies having possible experiences that are complex, deep, and varied. The exploration of such experiences is the right of each and every person, and we cannot question what each one chooses to do during intimacy to feel the pleasure of the consensual encounter between bodies.This project is basically an attempt to give shape to these thoughts that currently cross my mind and to promote sexuality as a space for freedom, and as a space that is specifically human, unique and individual where we can get to know ourselves."

The Sum of Us (1994)

The Sum of Us (1994)

The Sum of Us (1994)

Drama / Comedy

Russell Crowe

In this Australian comedy based on David Stevens's stage play, Jeff (Russell Crowe) is a young gay man living with his widowed father, Harry (Jack Thompson).
Although Harry has always accepted the fact that his son is openly gay, his acceptance is challenged when Jeff brings home a potential lover one night.
In turn, when Harry gets involved with Joyce, a divorcee he met through a dating service, she and Jeff have difficulty seeing eye to eye.

Length: 01:39:43
X,Y: 563x296
Codec: XviD
Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3

The ultimate Aussie Bum Russel Crowe as a gay plumber..... "The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story (set in Sydney) about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsucessfully searches for love, with the un-wanted guidance of his father. The (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tragedy strikes. There is no overt 'message' in the film, just a very natural, entertaining story-telling. One of Crowe's great performances, as a gay character that wasn't stereotypical in any way... just a guy but a guy that isn't afraid to be sensitive or tough without being wishy washy or macho.
The sound track includes beautiful songs by the famous (in the 80's) Aussie group "Crowded House".

Riot club, The (2014)

Riot club, The (2014)

boisterous behaviour and dazzling debauchery
in a male-dominated male-orientated world
where Hugo loves Miles but ...

Riot club, The (2014) - directed by: Lone Scherfig; country: United Kingdom
Alistair and Miles, both with aristocratic connections, start their first year at Oxford University though they are very different, Miles is down to earth and happy to have a girlfriend from a lower background, Lauren, whilst Alistair is a snob with aspirations to follow his uncle, a Tory MP. The common bond is that both become members of the Riot Club, a long established elite drinking club priding itself on hedonism and the belief that money can buy anything. Having been barred from most establishments in Oxford they have their annual dinner at the function room in a country pub, where their rowdy behaviour angers other patrons though they reimburse Chris, the landlord. They hire a prostitute but she refuses to perform group sex, then one of them rings Lauren, whom they importune to Max’s horror. Getting progressively more drunk and ingesting drugs they start to trash the room and when Chris comes to complain Alistair savagely assaults him, landing him in hospital ... (IMDB)

IMDB tt2717860

original English with NO subtitles (640x360 px; 25 fps)