Bi/Poly/Other Movie/Books Review and Journal
Archive for January, 2009
YWYRMovie: Center of the Universe
Jan 30th
Center of the Universe (2008)
Most Watched LGBT Video : Short Film: Center of the Universe
A film from the current season of “TCL: Best in Short Film.”
Question: What is the last song in the movie?
Synopsis:
After his boyfriend leaves him, a young man isolates himself in the big city — but eventually makes an unexpected connection.
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Popularity: 7% [?]
MTrailer: Boundaries of Attraction
Jan 29th
Boundaries of Attraction (2007)
M/F M/M
Synopsis:
After losing a bet with his girlfriend, Forrest is dared to kiss another man at a party. But when he arrives, he discovers that the other man was his best friend in High School, and they haven’t spoken since Forrest beat him up five years ago – for being gay.
Trailer:
Popularity: 8% [?]
YWYRMovie: In Memory of Me
Jan 29th
In Memory of Me (2006)
Synopsis:
After eight years, a young successful lawyer reluctantly goes back to her small hometown for her best friend’s wedding. When the memories of an experience she had with another woman during high school resurface, her present starts to unravel.
Trailer:
Watch the Movie : In Memory of Me
Popularity: 7% [?]
YWYRMovie: Kali Ma
Jan 29th
Kali Ma (2008)
A poster named Deja Vu mentioned that the guy from an earlier post I made called Latch Key (Boys Brief 3) looks like the guy from a short from (Boys Brief 5). I believe is called Kali Ma and by accident found the featured short, you decide.
Synopsis:
When an Indian mother discovers her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice.
Movie Short:
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Popularity: 6% [?]
MReview: Velvet Goldmine
Jan 27th
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
M/M M/F
Synopsis:
[Netflix] Ten years after British glam-rocker Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) fakes his assassination onstage and disappears from view, tabloid journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is dispatched to deconstruct the legend of the bisexual pop star. In the process of interviewing Slade’s cohorts and colleagues, Stuart gradually strips away the veneer of makeup and glitz, revealing the empty core of both the man and the music.
Review:
I enjoyed it, even when I wondered why I was watching it. Glam Rock isn’t my thing so I attached myself to the things I did like and all the actors is what kept me interested. I mean this movie had Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and all of them in undress and at certain times touching each other… well that alone made my day. Yeah, and the songs were good.
It actually had a good twist towards the end even though by this time I wasn’t really interested like Arthur’s publisher what happened to Brian Slade. The parts I did enjoy were how teenager Arthur connected to Brain Slade or should I say the glam rocker’s persona. Slade wasn’t afraid of being himself and saying he was bisexual. (You could see how powerful a media personality can influence on how, whether good or bad on mass; this connection can be important to a young person trying to find their way.) However in truth, the real Brian Slade wouldn’t be considered a good reference for anyone’s looking up to and I think what I did like is the adult Arthur’s discovery of that as well.
Secondly, I like the fact that was the most time I heard the word bisexual in all connotations in a movie. Not liking was probably the behavior associated with it. I don’t mind the bad stuff mixed with the good because it is what it is. The good was what I said before but it seemed overtaken with the bad. Or maybe I don’t know what I am talking about and just say it was the 70’s.
Do rent or buy it, either way watch it and you like it.
Trailer:
Popularity: 7% [?]
YWYRMovie: Affinity
Jan 25th
Affinity (2007)
M/M M/F
I saw this movie last year and I couldn’t remember the name to add it on my old site until I saw it on AfterElton.com winning the short film competition.
Synopsis:
A film that tests the boundaries of love, AFFINITY revolves around Anthony, a young man who loves both Danny and Kate, equally. In the span of one morning, Anthony’s double life is revealed by his own carelessness. The gradual suspicions of his girlfriend Kate and an ill-timed call from Danny forces Anthony to come clean and reveal his secret.
Movie Short:
AFFINITY (2007) short film
by luisdiaz
Popularity: 6% [?]
MReview: A Home at the End of the World
Jan 25th
A Home At The End Of The World (2004) [Widescreen]
M/M M/F
Synopsis:Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for The Hours) Michael Cunningham’s earlier novel about a troika of close friends who enter into an unconventional living arrangement gets deft treatment. Boyhood pals Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) both love the same woman (Robin Wright Penn), but in different ways (Jonathan is gay). Undaunted, they all try to make a life together — and even have a baby — in 1980s New York.
Review:
One, I wished I seen this movie years ago. Two, I love Colin. Three, I loved this movie. I honestly don’t think I could say much but all the characters I loved from Bobby’s youth to his adulthood his sense of wonder is calming. His older brother influenced his formative years and his family dying while he was so young stunted his childhood. You can see it from him never thinking of leaving Jonathan’s home until Jonathan’s parents tell him he has to find his own way now. That sense of belong to someone, to something was created and never left him thereby trying to reclaim what he lost but also giving him the capacity to love the people he met along the way and vice-versa.
If you understand his motive it makes perfect sense that Bobby leaves and goes for the one thing he can hold on to and that is his Jonathan himself who takes him in and from the moment they see each you know Jonathan is in love with Bobby, always was. Jonathan then introduces Bobby to Clare. Usually with these movies I noticed when they put a girl into the picture they use her as the prop but Penn’s character Clare is there as you can’t help but not see her and since she take the boys into the next stage of the film.
I guess I decided to add poly films into this blog because I also wanted a different view, because what is “family”? People want to emphasize what we know as the “nuclear family”, but these days divorce is 50% and most household are run by single parents. So why do we assume that something that exist in the falsely in the past or as a fantasy today is considered normal.
What is a “normal” family anymore?
And why should we assumed anyone is better than anyone else?
Trailer:
Popularity: 5% [?]
MReview: Wild Side
Jan 25th
Wild Side (2004)
M/M – M/F – F/M/M
Synopsis:
[Netflix] Three friends from tragic backgrounds come to rely on one another in this poignant tale. To care for her dying mother, prostitute Stephanie (Stephanie Michelini) returns home, where she’s haunted by childhood memories. She’s joined by army deserter Mikhail (Edouard Nikitine), who relives the horrors of war, and hustler Jamel (Yasmine Belmadi), who longs to return to his family. To ease their pain, the three find comfort in one another’s arms. Note: contains nudity.
Review:
This wasn’t what I was expecting of the poly relationship and to be honest I’m not surprised that isn’t an American film. Meaning I can’t seem to find any diversity of poly stories in American films but if you know better, let me know.
On to the review: I really enjoyed the movie, it took me a while to figure out the past and present but I think that’s was just me. Anyway I really loved the poly relationship between the three, they had no jealousy among themselves as you would think but they would be also considered on the outsides of society and I think it’s probably what kept them together. Even when helping Stephanie with her mother, all three at the home still needed the closeness of the triad even when they were just hanging out they had truly enjoyed each other company. Now I am not saying their lives are easy, each person’s past and current present was important to each person’s presence at the mother’s home but in the end it was secondary to the relationship of the three. It was a good film to watch.
Trailer:
Popularity: 6% [?]
MTrailer: The Adventures of Mom and Dad
Jan 24th
The Adventures of Mom and Dad (2007)
I found this on YouTube while looking for something else. A French film with English subs. It looks interesting, film about a poly relationship. I’ll try to find out more since this trailer is over a year old but in the meantime, here it is.
Synopsis:
[Official Website]
An unorthodox family made up of two husbands married to the same wife struggles to find a way to live together, face adversity together and ultimately pass on the story of their non-traditional lives to their child. Weaving animation into live-action, this film tells a unique story that strives to illustrate and illuminate the idea that love defines a family, not convention.
Trailer:
Popularity: 2% [?]
MReview: Where the Truth Lies
Jan 22nd
Where the Truth Lies [Unrated Theatrical Edition] (2005)
M/M M/F
Synopsis:
[Netflix] Twenty years after beloved comedy team Vince (Colin Firth) and Lanny (Kevin Bacon) split up, journalist Karen O’Connor (Alison Lohman) investigates the mystery behind the duo’s demise in this crime drama. Back in the 1950s, Vince and Lanny were the darlings of showbiz, but then a beautiful girl was found dead in their hotel room, and though both funnymen had alibis, their longtime friendship ended. Can Karen uncover the truth behind the tragedy?
Review:
Okay: absolutely loved the mystery, the backstory, the flashfowards, but mostly I love that Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth were naked. I’m not saying naked for titillating purposes but I do like nudity and simulated sex in a film where it makes sense to have it. It was best because they were men, who for all purpose have a reasonably popular careers and they performed these scenes that only less popular male actors have done. Now I am not saying they’re brave because then I would have to say that male porn stars are superbrave for performing actual sex for us to enjoy, strikes me of hypocrisy. However it is the risk they took that I am impressed by as Hollywood still makes it hard for male actors to do these roles without stigma.
Now review it. 
I love the movie, get it for your collection. I could say a lot about the movie but why, these actors, all of them are proven winners so getting them together seems a no-brainer. It was great just watching them do their work, especially Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth. I know this movie is about the reporter Karen but I would sometimes forget why she was there and preferred they stay in the past and watch those two work. Colin’s Vince beating the shit out of the guy in the bathroom was so… I hate to say cool, but it was as he was protecting his partner from that man’s bigotry. It was like they used Vince’s Englishman stereotype on the Americans and totally forgot they have not so proper gentlemen in England too.
Yeah, watch the movie.
Trailer:
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Popularity: 5% [?]
