Shelter - new LGBT movie to watch...

Read about this movie by Jonah Markowitz while going through Q. Allan Brocka's blog. Interesting I thought. I want to watch I thought. Won't be shown in the Philippines I thought. Augh! But I'm hoping either the UP Film Center or maybe Robinson's Movieworld would show the film.

After having seen the trailer on YouTube, I think it's a nice movie. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the movie has won Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best New Director in over 10 Film Festivals. It's also an independent film, and I'm all for indie films.

Uhm, the story. Young guy Zach had to put aside his art career aspirations to take care of his family. But when a tidal wave of emotions rise with a surfing buddy, Zach is forced to make some important decisions, take the risk and ride the big wave of life.

Find Shelter here.

Loving Eternal Summer and Boy Culture...

There was nothing ground breaking or Earth shattering in Boy Culture but it’s a well made movie with a solid cast and a very interesting twist so it’s definitely one worth seeing. Remember if we don’t go out and support our gay films, we’ll be stuck with nothing but happy hetero romantic comedies… forever!!!


Over the weekend, I Was able to get some DVDs that I'd been really wanting to watch - Eternal Summer, Boy Culture, Eating Out 2, and Another Gay Movie. So I was really in film heaven yesterday, even if I had work last Saturday and yesterday evening. Haha!

It's so difficult to find LGBT movies in this country, but if you want straight Playboy/semi-porn type of flicks, you just go to any record store at the mall and you'd find several titles. Augh! The irony is frustrating at times, I swear.

Anyway, the first two films I watched were Eternal Summer and Boy Culture.

Eternal Summer is really a story more about of friendship between Jonathan and Shane. The friendship of the two started when they were kids after Jonathan's teacher asked him to be the mischievous Shane's "guardian angel." The friendship continues until they reach high school and eventually, university. The two have a relationship that's more than friends, but less than lovers. Both stand by each other's side in all situations and really, what they have is enviable. When new girl Carrie arrives in town, that's when things take a different path. Jonathan begins to acknowledge that he does feel something beyond friendship for Shane, while the latter wants to have the affections of both Shane and Carrie. The ending leaves some things unanswered but I must say that the interesting twists, the great performances, the versatile cast make it a must-see movie. I read that the film topped the box office and enjoyed critical success at the Pusan and Tokyo International Film Festivals.

Boy Culture, on the other hand, is based on a novel which tells the confessions of "X," a wildly successful professional hustler. There is no sob story here though. X sees his "work" as a business, keeping only a dozen well-off clients. He knows he does it for a living, and he wouldn't sleep with anyone for free because he beleives in "saving himself for that special one." He lives in an apartment with Andrew, a black guy who used to be on the down low, and Joey, who's X's back up plan. Tensions rise when X admits his attraction to Andrew, and the latter wants X to give up his "career." An older gay guy and one of X's clients, Gregory, is part of the whole story dishing out elderly queer wisdom to the lead cahracters.

Boy Culture is humorous, sexy, a bit serious sometimes, and also thought provoking. The director is Q. Allan Brocka, and that is one of the major reasons why I really wanted to see this film.

Will write about the other two movies after I see them.