Review, buy Gay & Lesbian: Crush [1999] (NTSC), Overload Live - Vol. 5, Kissing Jessica Stein [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Anatomy of Hell [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), One Crazy Night: The Sequel [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Threesome [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Moreno [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lover Boys (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stella Does Tricks [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Squaddies, 2 Seconds [1998] (NTSC), Chuck & Buck [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Edge of Seventeen [1998] (NTSC), Finding North [1999] (NTSC), The Crying Game [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lucas Me Queria a Mi [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gay Man's Guide Update 97 [1997], Star Appeal [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kill Me Tomorrow [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kiss the Bride [2007]

Kissing Jessica Steinis not a conventional single-girl rom-com. Woody Allen taught us that singletons are neurotic, Sex & the City showed us their sass, Bridget Jones brought out their vulnerable side, and together they wrote the textbook of movie singledom. While Kissing Jessica Stein is clearly in on these conventions, its heroine takes an entirely different path to spice up her personal life. Impulsively answering a personal ad from another woman, Jessica Stein embarks on a tentative relationship with gallery owner Helen. But the couple have crossed purposes-Helen being more overtly sexual-leading Jessica to decide whether her ersatz sexual identity is the real thing, or if it's the companionship she's after. Wordy and witty, it's easy to spot the film's stage origins, but also easy to attribute this level of intelligence and humour to the two charming leading ladies, Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen. Similarly, while Jessica is almost certainly not gay, the on-screen spark between the two women is enough to justify their relationship. Kissing Jessica Stein asserts that sexual experimentation needn't lead to a massive personal revelation, nor pigeonholing oneself. At the film's heart is peoples' need to find intimacy, a sensitive subject that's treated with humour and gentle irony. This is one date that'll leave you smiling. [+]

On the DVD: Kissing Jessica Stein has two commentaries offering two entirely different perspectives. Director Charles Herman-Wurmfield and cinematographer Lawrence Sher provide an interesting if a little perfunctory look at how this low-budget feature was put together with the help of friends appearing as extras and loaning their apartments. Meanwhile producer/screenwriter/costars Westfeldt and Juergensen are chatty and light-hearted and clearly still excited at their film, a feeling that also pervades their documentary. Deleted scenes and outtakes come with or without commentary, and a trailer rounds off the package. -Laura Bushell.

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Review Tartan Video / Anatomy of Hell [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Anatomy of Hell [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Tartan Video)

Actors & Directors

Amira Casar
Alexandre Belin
Jacques Monge
Manuel Taglang
Rocco Siffredi
Catherine Breillat

Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Natércia Fonseca
Price: £47.95

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One Crazy Night: The Sequel [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Victory Multimedia)

Actors & Directors

London Hilton
Ryan Davenport
Adam Cootes
Michael Frederick
London Hilton
Alex Ward III

Release date: 2008-10-21
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Stan Foreman
Price: £8.28

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Review Columbia TriStar / Threesome [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Threesome [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Columbia TriStar)

Actors & Directors

Alexis Arquette
Stephen Baldwin
Andrew Fleming
Josh Charles
Martha Gehman
Lara Flynn Boyle

Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: David Stein
Price: £20.95

Review Threesome [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

This underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, Threesome can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better. -Tom Keogh An underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming Threesome may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, the film can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better. [+]

-Tom Keogh.

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Review Water Bearer Films / Moreno [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Moreno [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Water Bearer Films)

Actors & Directors

J.V. Roxas
Roy Castillon
Mark Dionisio
Ray An Dulay
Ynez Veneracion
Crisaldo Pablo

Release date: 2008-09-09
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Med Valentus Jr.
Price: £12.18

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Review Lover Boys / Lover Boys (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Lover Boys (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Lover Boys)

Release date: 2000-04-04
Price: £11.80

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Review Strand Home Video / Stella Does Tricks [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Stella Does Tricks [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Strand Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Kelly Macdonald
Coky Giedroyc
James Bolam
Ewan Stewart
Hans Matheson
Andy Serkis

Release date: 2001-06-26
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Sally French
Price: £13.55

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Squaddies (Dangerous to Know)

Actors & Directors

James Coco
Steve Levitt
Rebeccah Bush
John Allen Nelson
Deborah Shelton
Lawrence Bassoff

Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 47 min.
Creator: Steven J. Wolfe
Price: £14.99

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Review Wolfe Video / 2 Seconds [1998] (NTSC)

2 Seconds [1998] (NTSC) (Wolfe Video)

Actors & Directors

Suzanne Clément
Jonathan Bolduc
Charlotte Laurier
Yves Pelletier
Dino Tavarone
Manon Briand

Release date: 2000-08-15
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Roger Frappier
Price: £11.76

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Review Live/Artisan / Chuck & Buck [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Chuck & Buck [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Live/Artisan)

Actors & Directors

Miguel Arteta
Paul Weitz
Mike White
Lupe Ontiveros
Chris Weitz
Beth Colt

Release date: 2000-12-19
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Jason Zolov
Price: £6.38

Review Chuck & Buck [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

Once upon a time, in a childhood land of lollipops and sleepovers, Chuck and Buck were the best of friends; their days marked out with "fun, fun, fun". The trouble is that Chuck grew up and Buck did not. When the pair are reunited at a family funeral, Chuck (now a thrusting music exec with a pert girlfriend and an apartment in the Hollywood hills) finds himself bothered and bewildered by the creepy lost boy he thought he'd left behind. "I like your house," mumbles Buck, sticking out like a sore thumb at an uptight yuppie party. "It's very old person-y. " Shot on a shoestring budget by Miguel Arteta, Chuck and Buck offers a uniquely rich and strange comedy of retarded childhood. Think of this as a Peter Pan for modern-day America, or the Tom Hanks film Big viewed through a glass darkly. The slender premise contains deep pockets of ambiguity. After all, who's the real victim here? The harassed Chuck (played by American Pie co-creator Chris Weitz) or the spurned, saucer-eyed Buck (Mike White, who also wrote the script)? And who is the hero: the successful, status-conscious professional or the dopey, tearful wild card? Throughout the tale, you find your sympathies swinging back and forth between them. Make no mistake, Chuck and Buck is alive with hilarious, often horrific set-pieces. [+]

Yet Arteta's direction keeps it on a tight leash, prevents it from descending to the level of a simple freak-show. Instead his film blossoms from an odd-couple farce into a drolly provocative (and oddly humane) portrait of that shadow period between infancy and adolescence. White's character comes across as a very human kind of movie monster. Resplendent in stripy T-shirt, Buck is Chuck's conscience, his id, the ghost of childhood come back to haunt him. -Xan Brooks.

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Review Strand Home Video / Edge of Seventeen [1998] (NTSC)

Edge of Seventeen [1998] (NTSC) (Strand Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Andersen Gabrych
David Moreton
Chris Stafford
Lea DeLaria
Tina Holmes
Stephanie McVay

Release date: 2000-07-05
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Todd Stephens
Price: £11.91

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Review Wolfe Video / Finding North [1999] (NTSC)

Finding North [1999] (NTSC) (Wolfe Video)

Actors & Directors

Wendy Makkena
Rebecca Creskoff
Jonathan Walker
Anne Bobby
Tanya Wexler
John Benjamin Hickey

Release date: 2000-03-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Stephen Dyer
Price: £11.76

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Review Live/Artisan / The Crying Game [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Crying Game [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Live/Artisan)

Actors & Directors

Stephen Rea
Forest Whitaker
Adrian Dunbar
Susan Ricketts
Jaye Davidson
Miranda Richardson
Neil Jordan

Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Nik Powell
Price: £6.24

Review The Crying Game [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

An IRA film with a difference, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game takes the Anglo-Irish conflict as the starting point for a thoughtful, often poignant and sometimes humorous examination of gender and identity. Stephen Rea is the IRA volunteer who befriends a kidnapped British soldier (the gauche but likeable Forest Whitaker), then takes the questions of loyalty and instinct (the "frog and scorpion" fable) with him to London, where he falls for the dead man's girlfriend (the appealing Jaye Davidson). Love and terrorism are fused in a violent and suspenseful denouement, where truth manifests itself in an unexpected yet meaningful way. Miranda Richardson and Adrian Dunbar are persuasive as the IRA agents, and there are excellent cameos from Jim Broadbent as an East End barman and Tony Slattery as a property shark, all making the most of Jordan's stylish, Academy Award-winning script. Anne (Art of Noise) Dudley contributes a moodily atmospheric score, with three versions of "When a Man Loves a Woman" to point up the gender issue. On the DVD: The Crying Game comes to disc with a widescreen picture that reproduces adequately for an early 90s film. The soundtrack, though, has real presence. There are subtitles in English and Russian(!), though the theatrical trailer is hardly a major bonus. An interview or a commentary with Jordan, discussing the motivation behind the project, would really have benefited a film which cuts across genres so successfully as this. -Richard Whitehouse.

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Lucas Me Queria a Mi [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Venevision)

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