ADAM & STEVE (2005)
Adam (Craig Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) meet at New York's Danceteria disco in 1987, when Adam is an uptight punk/Goth and Steve a coked-up big haired go-go dancer.
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994)
Popular Sydney drag queens Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Felicia (Guy Pearce) join transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) on the long trip to Alice Springs, where they’ve been signed to perform in a bush hotel. Along the way, there’s revelations, bonding, arguments and encounters with strangers, all bumped along by a great soundtrack and the occasional laugh.
ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (2006)
I'm not hostile toward Another Gay Movie, and there was some loud laughter in the screening I attended. But the laughter felt to me mostly forced and nervous, along the lines of, "Did they just do that?" rather than, "Wow, that was hilarious!"
ARE YOU BEING SERVED (1997)
Grace Bros. department store is closed for renovations, and the entire staff are sent on holiday together. Our beloved crew arrive in the fictional Moroccan resort of Costa Plonka, where mix-ups and double entendre are the order of the day, and a half-baked civil war waits for the third act. THE BIRDCAGE (1996)
Albert suspects that Armand is sneaking out to have an affair while she performs, but the boy he’s with is his son, Val (Dan Futterman) who’s just become engaged. Armand doesn’t want his twenty-year-old boy to get married, and especially not to Barbara Keely (Calista Flockhart), the daughter of arch-conservative Senator (Gene Hackman).
BLADES OF GLORY (2007)
What powers the movie are the gross-out gags--approach the revelation of the ultimate skating move, the Iron Lotus, with caution!--and the scenes in which each man learns to overcome his revulsion to touching/being touched by another dude.
THE CLOSET (LA PLACARD) (2001)
Daniel Auteuil plays François, an invisible worry-wart ignored by his ex-wife, son, and everyone he works with. When he hears that he’s about to be laid off, he circulates the rumour that he’s gay knowing that his bosses won’t sack him and risk a backlash from gay groups and the media.
CONNIE AND CARLA (2004)
Hard-featured Nia Vardalos and goofy, goggle-eyed Toni Collette look a bit too much like real drag queens for their own good. Vardalos is the epitome of a homely, “handsome” woman, and in many of her roles, Collette has convincingly played quite masculine, stern and independent characters.
DARK HABITS (1983)
Their hospice beds long empty, the bored Sisters of the Order of Humble Redeemers pass the time shooting heroin, dropping acid, caring for pet Bengal tigers and surreptitiously penning bestselling trash novels. The once legion illicit women of Madrid seem to have redeemed themselves, so the Sisters have nothing else to do.
EATING OUT (2005)
The bulk of the film centers around Caleb and Marc's date, which starts in surreal fashion with ramrod-straight Caleb passionately tongue kissing Marc at Gwen's request, becomes more surreal as the boys go to a party of dorky pianists who have a keyboard duel using Caleb as a page turner, and then - via a video store interlude where Caleb unwittingly deploys the hanky code to parade as a scat lover - an extended blow job/phone sex scene which is actually rather sexy.
THE IRON LADIES (2000)
follows the true story of the 1996 Thai National Volleyball champions, a team made up of drag queens, trannies and gay guys that attracted a huge popular following and enjoyed a post-Championships run of Thai media fame.
THE IRON LADIES 2 (2003)
Every bit as offensive and unnecessary as its predecessor, this minstrel show banks on its cast of squealing queens to make complete and utter jackasses of themselves. "Is your eyesight that bad? I'm using my mouth to speak! As for my ass, I'm saving that," zings the perpetually preening Jung (Chaicharn Nimpulsawasdi, possibly the most obnoxious human being on the face of the earth).
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
when we heard that Shane Black, the writer of Lethal Weapon, was making a private dick buddy film with Val Kilmer playing Robert Downey Jr's gay svengali and that at least once the pair would tongue kiss each other, we had every reason to expect disaster.
THE OPPOSITE OF SEX (1998)
It’s strange to think that Don Roos, who executive produced the deplorable All Over The Guy was the writer and director of this sparkling film, which has everything its timid and politically correct millennial gay comedy cousins lack.
TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMAR (1995)
Like real drag queens, much of this film's material is old and tired. As in a real drag show, there are some stale stereotypes, bad acting, and very weak storytelling.
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