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Holding Trevor (2007)
6 for Gorski and Godman!
Trying to plumb beneath the usual emotional shallows of twentysomething L.A. gay life, Holding Trevor sometimes succeeds, but mostly comes off as a vanity project for writer-star Brent Gorski. A lad with limited screen presence, he plays a protagonist caught between a longtime boyfriend-turned-junkie, an improbably perfect Mr. Right and two high-maintenance, brattily annoying best friends. Holding Trevor comes off as Joan Crawford-esquire, star-flattering melodrama on an Amerindie scale. There are several quite well-written, well-observed scenes; director Rosser Goodman delivers a polished product with solid tech values. But a vanity-project air still pervades Holding Trevor, from the scrawny stars frequent shirtlessness to his incessant fawning-over by Kranskis character.
Melissa Searing and Eli Kranski (who is also that hoty that every movie must have or so it seems) gave good roles, Gorski is better as writer, Brannan as musician... Best scenes are sex scenes, that's indeed tastefully simulated sex. Music is grate, especially Brennan's singing (and song writing). Not so bad, G&G will do it better next time!
Dog Tags (2008)
6 or 7, 7 or 6
Maybe acting is good and idea grate (dialogs not so grate), but direction is simply bad. 10 minutes wasted on that gay party, that was just useless. Director tried to make film mysterious, did Nate died or he just do not want to see Andy, did they have sex only once or did they saw each other again. Let me quote someone here - ''At one point, the two end up in a motel room, and a tentative sex scene commences. But wait... throughout the scene, Andy's thick eyeliner comes and goes, and Nate's shaved head grows hair and then loses it. Even his dog tags change, appearing both with and without black edges. What's going on?'' Maybe it's just an error, maybe Paul Preiss (Nate) didn't want to kiss Bart Fletcher so they hire understand or maybe it's directors attempt to be mysterious and intelligent. Either way, it's not working.
It's a cheep production and we have to give them a slack. So, not so bad, not so bad, 6 or 7!