lylecass Reviews

I Promise You Anarchy (2015)

I Promise You Anarchy against Frameline

[1/10 · 20 June 2016]

I Promise You Anarchy against Frameline if you see this film. Frances Wallace, Executive Director of Frameline saw this at the Toronto Film Festival & she recommends this incoherent film? Did we see the same film? With a great soundtrack & raw sexual scenes were promising but the rest of the film is a hot mess. Nothing really makes much sense & scenes of a truckload of "cash cows" to milk left the viewers & the protagonists clueless as to what happened to them. Also a murder is left unresolved. For a film about the blood trade it's pretty much bloodless. The final scene is like one of those, "What Happened?" It was a complete waste of time.

Those People (2015)

Highly Recommended.

[22 June 2015]

I saw this film at the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco on Saturday night. Great performances, heartbreaking story & very intense love triangle. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. Charlie (the handsome, Jonathan Gordon) is a budding artist who is hung up on his self-centered BFF, Sebastian (Jason Ralph). The feeling is not mutual. Sebastian's life is turned upside down after a scandal puts his father in jail. When Charlie meets a hot Lebanese concert pianist, older & more grounded than Sebastian there developing relationship starts to interfere with Charlie & Sebastian's long time friendship. The cast is outstanding but Jonathan Gordon is the star & is just about in every scene except when Sebastian meets his father in jail. It's a heartbreaking moment. Joey Kuhn's directorial debut is very impressive. Well done. Highly recommended.

Shelter (II) (2007)

Best Film at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival

[18 June 2007]

This has got to be the best film I've seen at the San Francisco LGBT film festival in years. The director and cast were in attendance at the world premiere and they were given a worthy standing ovation. Writer/director Jonah Markowitz did a fantastic job of flushing out real characters. Trevor Wright was a real natural and convincing as someone struggling to come out. He really made you feel his pain. The story about his codependent sister is dead-on. Brad Rowe is like a young Greg Kinnear. You can't help liking him. The soundtrack was excellent and I hope to see it released. This is the first film from here! Network and I hope to see more of this quality. Incidentally, I've noticed on the IMDb search that there are two other films being released in 2007 with the title "Shelter" and there a half dozen films in the past with the same title. Also, on the allmovie guide (AMG) site there is an Italian film with the same title. Interesting enough, that film is being shown at the SF LGBT festival and was changed to Shelter Me. Hopefully, the "surfer gay movie" will stand out.