@SuicideRoom
DVD Wolfe Price: $19.95 Available: March 13, 2012
Synopsis:
(Original title: SALA SAMOBÓJCÓW)
(5 out of 5) Critic’s Pick!
“A stunning examination of life and finding the will to live it.”
—MetroWeekly
Moody, dark and handsome Dominik (Jakub Gierszal) is tormented by his classmates after video footage of his drunken kiss with bully Alex is spread across the Internet. Grappling with the public humiliation Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based “suicide room” where the pink-haired rebel Sylvia consoles him. “We’re freaks, weirdos, outside the norm. You’re different. Treasure that,” she tells him. As Dominik’s depression worsens, and his wealthy, inattentive parents fail to deal with the problem, @SuicideRoom follows Dominik’s virtual adventures (in stunning animated sequences) as his online adventures begin to dangerously bleed into his real life.
Year Produced: 2010
Directed By: Jan Komasa
Starring: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska
Language: Polish
Run Time: 110 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Eating Out: The Open Weekend
DVD Wolfe Price: $19.95 Available: March 20, 2012
BLURAY Wolfe Price: $24.95 Available: March 20, 2012
Synopsis:
Zack and Benji open up their relationship for a weekend of fun at a gay resort in Palm Springs. After Zack runs into his ex-boyfriend Casey, Casey lies and tells him he met someone new to avoid Zack’s pity. When Casey reacquaints with an old high school friend, Peter, he manages to convince him to pretend to be his boyfriend despite Peter’s reluctance that it will interfere with his promiscuous weekend opportunities. As sexual tensions start to mount between Benji and Peter, Zack becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his relationship while Casey longs for a stable relationship of his own. A sexy and outrageous comedy, Eating Out: The Open Weekend serves up plenty of eye-candy and raunchy fun along with the pursuit of finding true love.
Year Produced: 2011
Directed By: Allan Brocka
Starring: Aaron Milo, Chris Salvatore, Daniel Skelton, michael vara
Language: English
Run Time: 80 min.
Rating: Not Rated
The Love Patient
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Synopsis:
When brash ad exec Paul realizes he has lost his ex-boyfriend for good, he concocts an outrageous scheme to win him back: He stages his own cancer diagnosis. The plan seems to be working until Paul’s mom and his entire family move in to take care of him.
How far would you go to win back the love of your life? Perhaps send flowers, write poetry or even serenade that man of your dreams until he can take it no more? Paul, our hot but self-centered hero has other, more extreme ideas when sensitive hunk Brad drops him and begins dating another man. Not used to losing and determined to regain his love, Paul decides to pretend to have a life-threatening illness in what he sees as a foolproof method in ensuring Brad’s return. But will it work or will the tangled web he weaves get him in hot water rather than in to the arms of his hot man? Populated by outrageous characters, this fun romantic comedy is a truly off the wall take on what one man would really do for love.
Year Produced: 2011
Directed By: Michael Simon
Starring: Benjamin Lutz, Jackson Palmer, John Kilpatrick, John Werskey, Laura Ulsh, Madison Gray, Mike Pfaff
Language: English
Run Time: 95 min.
Rating: Not Rated
Toast
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Synopsis:
Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield, Toast is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. Nigel’s Mother was always a poor cook, and her addiction to all things canned isn’t helping. Nigel, on the other hand, laps up cookbooks as if they were porn, and spends all his free time gazing longingly at the delights offered at Percy Salt’s grocery shop. Nigel’s Dad worries there is something “wrong” with his son and the two find it difficult to connect, so Nigel finds friendship and a father figure in Josh, the gardener.
As his mother’s illness worsens, so do Nigel’s relations with his father — the Bolognese he cooks is far too exotic, the uncooked Fray Bentos pie MUST be finished, and his father’s rage as Nigel insists on picking every last bit of jelly off the canned ham at the annual picnic hits an all time high. Dad then fires Josh for reasons unknown to Nigel.
Just before Christmas, Nigel’s mother dies, leaving Nigel and his father heartbroken. Their touching efforts to look after each other, often through gestures with food, sadly seem to miss the target. His father begins to spend his evenings at the Masonic lodge until a new cleaner, Mrs. Potter, arrives on the scene. Mrs. Potter’s curves, charms and lemon meringue pies quickly bewitch Nigel’s father and much to Nigel’s horror, the three soon embark on a move to the country. The one silver lining in the cloud of a new school is Domestic Science class, where Nigel can finally shine. Cooking soon becomes the key weapon in the battle for Dad’s affections. Ironically, the main casualty of these culinary skirmishes between Nigel and Mrs. Potter is Nigel’s father, as his waistline grows and grows. Hoping to escape the madness, Nigel lands a job in the kitchen of his local pub. It is here that Nigel’s eyes are opened to a world of culinary opportunity.
Year Produced: 2010
Directed By: SJ Clarkson
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton
Language: English
Run Time: 96 min.
Rating: Not Rated
1313: Bermuda Triangle
DVD Wolfe Price: $13.13 Available: May 12, 2012
Synopsis:
A Sexy, Scifi Thriller!
Treasure hunter SEAN has stumbled across a trove of important and priceless artifacts off the coast of a little-visited Caribbean island. To help him with his project, he has assembled a team of experts to authenticate his finds, only to discover that one of the “experts” has quite another agenda in mind…
Year Produced: 2012
Directed By: David Decoteau
Starring: Andrew Vech, David Baracskai, Dean Barlage, Jamel King, Joshua Shiver, Kip Canyon, Michelle Bauer, Ryan Widick, Scott Jordan, Skyler Hart, Stefan Gatt
Language: English
Run Time: 75 min.
Rating: Not Rated
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK 2 — Best Lesbian Gift DVD Spotlight
HBO’s star-studded triptych drama, If These Walls Could Talk 2 remains one of the best mainstream portrayals of lesbian lives on screen. Featuring great lesbian characters brought to life by Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Stone, Chloe Sevigny, Vanessa Redgrave, Michelle Williams, Natasha Lyonne and Marian Seldes — the DVD is on sale at Wolfe for the holiday season for just $8.96 and makes an excellent (and very reasonably priced gift) for the lucky lesbian in your life. Here’s an excerpt from the AfterEllen.com rave review of the film:
“If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) focuses on lesbian lives in three different eras/segments over a forty year period, framed within a single house. This is a thoughtful, issue-driven drama about some of the challenges lesbians face, and the change in cultural attitudes over time towards women who love women.
It’s also a rare opportunity to see good acting, writing, and production quality in a lesbian-themed film…
Overall, the casting and direction of this production is stellar, the writing makes the characters all seem very genuine to the experiences they portray, and the production values are professional and of the caliber you’d expect from HBO. This movie is a necessary addition to any queer film library — just make sure you have a tissue handy when you watch.”
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WHOLE NEW THING — Best Gay Gift DVD Spotlight
Amnon Buchbinder‘s wonderful gay coming of age film, WHOLE NEW THING is now on sale at WolfeVideo.com for just $8.95 — a great gift for the holidays. Here’s Chicago Reader film critic Albert Williams‘s glowing 2005 review:
“This wry, tender 2005 Canadian comedy puts a fresh spin on the theme of adolescent sexual awakening. Its protagonist, an intellectually precocious 13-year-old, develops a crush on his middle-aged gay English teacher, whose attempts to deflect the boy’s advances without wounding his blossoming spirit lead the man to confront his own emotional isolation. Shot by director Amnon Buchbinder in snowy rural Nova Scotia, the film features subtle, honest performances by Daniel MacIvor (who also cowrote the screenplay) as the perplexed prof and engaging newcomer Aaron Webber as the sensitive student.”
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Crutch
DVD Wolfe Price: $9.95 Now Shipping!
Synopsis:
A Gay Classic Returns!
A Student, His Teacher, Crossing Boundaries.
Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David’s home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a gorgeous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny’s “support” escalates into seduction, David slowly descends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive.
CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
Year Produced: 2004
Directed By: Rob Moretti
Starring: Eben Gordon, Frankie Faison, James Earley, Rob Moretti, Robert Bray, Tim Loftus
Language: English
Run Time: 89 min.
Rating: R
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