200 AMERICAN (2003)
After a joint and some sex which we never see, Tyler reveals that he's engaged, and is only hooking to save for his marriage and honeymoon. Brandon quickly develops a crush and offers Tyler a one-thousand dollar a week office assistant/live-in fuck bag role, which Tyler instantly accepts.

BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY (1983)
Though filmed in 1982, it details a band of young Japanese men prepared to fight and die for their country, and the military classroom scenes give it a World-War-Two period aura. This atmosphere interweaves with characters shopping in record stores and throwing frisbees, oh, and tying each other up and finger-fucking and raping each other with the help of tubs of Nivea Creme.

EATING OUT (2005)
More half-baked soft porn for half-witted soft-cocks. Like so many contemporary gay movies, Eating Out has a plot that would barely sustain a half-hour episode of a Z-grade sitcom, and some acting that wouldn't cut it at amateur theatre night in Bumblefuck.

LOCKED UP (GEFANGEN) (2004)
My developmentally disabled cousin and I used to rent cheapie soft-porn videos and we'd watch them in hard-on silence like a pair of losers and so it's flabbergasting and appalling to see how today, twenty years later, such films are marketed to gay audiences as artistically rendered love stories perfect for headlining your city's next gay and lesbian film festival.

HUSTLER WHITE (1994)
Of all LaBruce’s films, this has the most “mainstream” appeal, mainly because of the casting of Tony Ward as the male hustler Montgomery “Monti” Ward. Best known as the former toy boy of pop star Madonna (he stars in her “Justify My Love” and “Cherish” music videos), Ward is both macho and vulnerable, a dopey and endearing bad boy.

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.

O FANTASMA (2004)
Aimless and lonely Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) is a garbage collector who lives in a dingy flat in Lisbon with his dog, and a casual, ambivalent girlfriend. His indifference to his life is absolute, and the only thing that keeps him going is a string of anonymous and increasingly s&m sexual encounters with men at night, increasingly rough sessions to which he has become addicted.

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