Imagine Me & You is excellent if you’re in the mood for a good f/f film.

My current favorite m/m storyline is on, of all things, a German soap opera, Alles Was Zaehlt (All That Matters). It’s not a coming out story, at least in its current incarnation (the coming out story-which was wonderful-happened two years ago and was promptly destroyed by the Powers That Be when they shoved Deniz back in the closet), but the story arc of Deniz and Roman finding each other again has been exceptionally well done. Great acting, directing, writing, camera work — just brilliant. I highly recommend it.

(If, like me, you don’t speak German, the best place to watch the DeRo storyline is on the EskimoKissProject You Tube channel, put together by three talented women who download, clip, subtitle and post the story. With hilarious commentary in the description box. For DeRo 2.0, start with episode 730.)

I also enjoyed the BBC’s/Sarah Waters’ excellent Victorian period drama Fingersmith (Tipping the Velvet failed to win me over, though). Another period drama that has stayed with me is the WWII drama (a Jewish girl and a gay couple in nazi-occuppied France) Un amour à taire/A Love to Hide by French director Christian Faure. Powerful and real emotions, no HEA though, but I think this is An Important film.

One I highly recommend and really blew me away with how awesome it was is the movie Boy Culture. It’s really well done and with great acting and humor and drama and very, very nice to look at men. One of which being the same guy who plays Noah on LOGO’s Noah’s Arc. It’s a great, fresh take on the gay hustler trope, with a good dose of romance thrown in along with a nice message about the family you choose. Not to mention lovely, lovely men. :)

If you want to review another GLBT film, I’d love to see Boy Culture reviewed. It’s about ten times better acted and written (it’s based on a novel is probably why) than Latter Days, much as I love LD.

Kissing Jessica Stein was generally well-reviewed by mainstream and GLBT media. If I were to liken it to a reading genre, I would say that it is rather like chick lit. There’s no HEA per se, but at the end of the film all the characters are in good places, relationship-wise. It airs on Logo every so often, I think, and is available on Netflix.

Plus there aren’t a lot of decent gay movies out there and this is one.

When Sarah and I chatted about her doing this review, I told her I’d been trying to find some other good GLBT movies to review but the ratings on the ones at Netflix generally range from poor to piss poor.

If you’re interested in other gay interest films, I highly recommend any of Chad Allen’s stuff. He’s made quite the niche for himself as gay hollywood’s leading man. :) He’s not half bad to look at either.