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Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

Il Primo Giorno D’inverno [The First Day of Winter] *** (2008, Mattia De Gasperis, Michela Cova, Andrea Semeghini, Alberto Gerundo) – Classic Movie Review 12,713

The 2008 Italian drama film The First Day of Winter stars Mattia De Gasperis as Valerio, a lonely, introverted boy who can’t get on with others. He observes other boys sneakily and spies on a […]

Nov, 10

Passages *** (2003, Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos) – Classic Movie Review 12,665

Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages is a smart but spectacularly chilly film without a sympathetic character in sight, particularly its incredibly selfish, nasty film-director ‘hero’ (Franz Rogowski). Director Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages […]

Oct, 08

Cassandro ***½ (2023, Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Mark Vasconcellos, Andrea Pazmino, Yavor Vesselinov) – Classic Movie Review 12,650

Gael García Bernal has winning ways in the feel-good 2023 biopic Cassandro as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rises to world stardom in the early 1980s after he creates the […]

Sep, 22

The Wounded Man [L’Homme Blessé] ***½ (1983, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 12,649

Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]

Sep, 21

Beautiful Something *** (2015, Brian Sheppard, Zack Ryan, Colman Domingo, John Lescault, Grant Lancaster) – Classic Movie Review 12,635

The engrossingly offbeat and lusty 2015 film Beautiful Something is all about the need for connection and commitment, unravelling in one night when four diverse gay men try to navigate their desire for art, sex […]

Sep, 08

Strapped *** (2010, Benjamin Bonenfant, Nick Frangione, Artem Mishin, Michael Carlisi) – Classic Movie Review 12,634

Benjamin Bonenfant stars as a handsome hustler who learns about life during a series of sexual encounters among a building’s strange residents, in Joseph Graham’s engagingly odd and edgy 2010 film Strapped. Benjamin Bonenfant stars […]

Sep, 08

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