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3.11 Mystery Spot
Original Air Date. 14 February 2008
Overall 4.75 / 5.0
No Gay Content
Monster: Can’t give it away without spoiling a plot point, but it’s a villain we’ve seen before
Summary: A Supernatural take on Groundhog Day, Sam keeps repeating the same [...]
Original release date 2000
Part 1 of “Enemy Unknown” introduces the titular adversary, a new race called the Grey who live in the Briar Patch. They prove themselves to be powerful and dangerous creatures, even if they do look like Jawas (from Star Wars).
Part 2 takes place months later and introduces the full cast of [...]
Overall Quality 4.0 / 5.0 (recommended)
Gay Content 3.5 / 5.0 (protagonist, several major characters, and several subplots gay)
Gay Positivity 2.0 / 5.0 (may not be explicitly anti-gay, but filled with negative
stereotypes)
Summary
Adolescent Vanyel Ashekevron doesn’t fit his father’s notions of what a son should be. In fact, his father, Lord Withen, feels desperate to instill some [...]
Overall 3.5 / 5.0 (competent writing, entertaining read)
Gay Content 2.5 / 5.0 (pervasive, but more as an undercurrent)
Gay Positivity 4.5 / 5.0 (very positive)
Flewelling’s greatest strength lies in the characterization of her primary characters. Protagonists Alec and Seregil are both multi-dimensional and engaging. Seregil, irreverent and mysterious, is a spy in service of the Queen [...]
An essay from Edge Boston by Scott Stiffler.
As we mentioned in last week’s story on gay Israeli cinema, in the three years since “Brokeback Mountain,” the American film industry has failed to deliver on the promise of delivering mainstream films with gay themes. Instead of, say, the long-awaited film of “The Front Runner” (a project [...]
The cast proves itself (mostly) able to tackle the challenging story and roles involved. Randle McMurphy (in a charismatic performance by Mark Nutter), convicted of statutory rape, has been sent from a work farm to a mental institution due to deranged behavior. He may be faking it, though: trying to “play” the system to get [...]
Via OutSports.com:
From 1999 to 2002 there was a sexy after-dark show on MTV called “Undressed.” It featured sex-based storylines and from time to time had two guys jumping in the sack with each other. I recently stumbled across one such episode on YouTube, and it brought back memories of the redundant storylines, terrible acting and [...]
4.11 - Family Remains
Original Air Date. 15 January 2009
Overall 3.0 / 5.0 (entertaining)
No gay content
Monster: A house’s secret inhabitants
Summary: A girl emerges from the walls of an isolated house to kill an old man. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate, but not before another young family starts moving into the house. Soon the [...]
From The Advocate:
[A new black comedy about life as a teenager as seen through the eyes of three characters,] Dare premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is one of the most honest films about being a teenager ever made. It is also part of a trend at this year’s festival, and perhaps among [...]
Via Towleroad.com:
From AwardsDaily.com:
Give a movie with a gay theme some Oscar attention, and there’s a backlash from certain quarters that can only be called gaybashing.
That sudden slump in Milk’s already battered position on the IMDb charts is exactly what happened to Brokeback Mountain three years ago. As soon as enough people start to see an [...]
Quality 5.0 / 5.0 (highly recommended)
Gay Inclusive? Slightly - One mention of a minor gay character
Gay positive? Very - I love how the gay content is handled
Unusually, in this case I think the sequel outdoes the first book, though it’s close. The sheer creativity, wit and cleverness in this book combined with the engaging writing [...]
Overall 0.5 / 5.0 (don’t bother)
Gay Inclusve? Very - mostly gay, some hetero secondary characters
Gay Positive? No - I don’t think they meant to be homophobic, but jeez…
Wow. I actually watched the whole thing, and in hindsight, how did I manage that? I feel like Superman now, able to watch awful movies in [...]
Overall 3.5 / 5.0 (promising but fails to deliver a high-impact story)
Gay Inclusive? Very - protagonist is gay, and the mystery takes him into London’s 18th Century gay underworld
Gay Positive? Mostly - the era is definitely not gay positive, but the author’s treatment of the gay content is.
Set in 1757, Lord John Grey is the [...]
