(Dir. Dan Lantz. US, 2011. 82 mins).

This above average gay movie thriller maintains the creeping tension until the end and creates a satisfyingly original menace for these three city gays who go into the woods…

Dan Lantz’s taught, bloody retribution story has an energy, touch of style and central idea which elevates it above its low-budget video status. It has elements of the classic Western as a trio of travelling friends, each battling his own demons, wander off track and into a small, dusty town where it’s best to keep your head down and your business to yourself. Of course that’s never going to happen, especially with loud, sexed up, trouble making Johnny (Jesse Archer) on hand to grab the local’s attention.

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(Dir. Wade McDonald. US, 2011. 97 mins).

A gay wedding is the backdrop to this lighthearted, love-tangle drama. When lonely lawyer Aiden receives an invite to his ex’s wedding and can’t scare up a date to take along to the big event, things seem bad enough, especially as he still has feelings for his former lover, but then Max asks him to be Best Man too, which means staying at Max and his fiancee’s lakehouse for the weekend. In a desperate attempt to save face, Aiden takes along his roommate’s annoying twink colleague as his pretend boyfriend, with sharp-tongued roommate in tow, and everybody gets more than they bargained for by the end of the weekend.

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(Dirs. Darren Flaxstone & Christian Martin. UK, 2011. 80 mins).

A young, gay couple turn to the bedroom to beat the recession and the makers of hit, Brit, grit movie Shank find their funny bone in this breezy sex comedy.

Aaron has been hiding from his boyfriend, Seb, the fact he’s lost his job and when the bank threatens to repossess their home, he turns to desperate measures – in short, secretly filming him and Seb in the sack and uploading the movie to an amateur, pay-to-view website. Seb – no stranger to unwanted media attention – finds out and is shocked at Aaron’s betrayal, but when the view count skyrockets and the cash starts rolling in, he soon comes round to the idea and agrees to more x-rated instalments.

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Smut Capital of America is an (NSFW) award-winning documentary short about the ‘sexual gold rush’ of late ’60s and early ’70s San Francisco after a landmark ruling from the state’s supreme court permitted the viewing of hardcore pornography in private, leading to the opening up of adult movie theaters.

It was boom-time for the porn biz, both gay and straight, and the film collects anecdotes from models, filmmakers and theater owners from the era, including John Waters.

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(Dir. Kim St. Leon. US, 2010. 97 mins).

This watchable, ambitious thriller provides something a little different in a gay movie market crammed with fluffy rom-coms and coming-out dramas.

Lost Everything takes as its starting point a closeted gay movie star and spins a tale of deceit, lust, ambition, surveillance and revenge. Brian Brecht (played by Mark Whittington) is a Hollywood star in the Tom Cruise mould: square-jaw handsome, publicly charming and desired by both men and women. He pitches up in Miami for some location shooting on his latest film and immediately clocks sexy, young hotel bartender David. All it takes is some cigar innuendo and a slip of Brian’s room number and David is there like a shot.

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