November 2024 – BALD JASON'S GAY GOTH BOY BLOG

November 8, 2024August 25, 2026

What My Love is For (2016)

2024 Entry #63 11-08-24 “What My Love is For”

The description from IMDB reads: “A self-critical county boy must outwit the ruling class to save his ancestral home before the bank forecloses at the end of the summer.”

Okay.

Having been ill at the time, I didn’t write anything about this either – but I remember that it is not very good and that it wanders a bit. I didn’t hate the cast but the performances were sort of all over the place and the film has a terrible “ending” – I mean, it just ends and it feels more like they ran out of money than they came to a satisfying conclusion.

Oh well. I bought it on sale, with a coupon, so I only paid a couple bucks for it.

November 8, 2024August 25, 2026

Naked As We Came (2012)

2024 Entry #62 11-08-24 “Naked as We Came” is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Richard LeMay (“200 American”, “Whirlwind”, “Children of God”). The film stars Benjamin “Ben” Weaver (“Daddy”), as Ted, a mysterious groundskeeper who lives with and cares for a cancer-stricken woman named Lilly (S. Lue McWilliams). When Lilly’s condition worsens, Ted calls her adult children, Laura (Karmine Alers) and her decade younger brother Elliot (Ryan Vigilant), who end their extended maternal estrangement to finally return home to be there for their mother. Lilly attempts to break down the barriers that separate them and several secrets come to light.

I had seen this movie once before, years ago. I remembered very little of it. I remembered that it was the first queer film I’d seen in a long time…

And that’s all that I have written down from the day I re-watched this. I felt like I enjoyed this more the first time through and that it isn’t horrible but that it’s not great either.

It did win a few rewards upon its release, including the Audience Award” for ‘Best Feature’ at Cinema Diverse & the Audience Award for ‘Best Overall Feature’ at Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

November 7, 2024August 25, 2026

Eighteen (2005)

Eighteen is a 2005 Canadian drama film written and directed by openly gay Vancouver filmmaker Richard Bell (“Two Brothers” / “Two Brothers and Two Others”) which centers on Pip Anders (Paul Anthony) & his grandfather, Private Jason Anders (Brendan Fletcher) as the gift of a cassette tape allows Pip to experience his grandfather’s eighteenth birthday as Pip experiences his own. Both of these central characters are straight but both storylines feature dignified respectful relationships with other men, one of whom, Clark (Clarence Sponagle), is a gay hustler.

At the time I first saw this, I mostly knew Brendan Fletcher from a series of queer inclusive films, including: “The Five Senses” (1999), “Rollercoaster” (1999), “Anatomy of a Hate Crime” (2001), “Touch” (2022) & “Everyone (2004)”, which is what caught my eye at the video store. When I picked it up I also saw that the film featured Thea Gill (from the second iteration of “Queer as Folk”), with openly queer legends Alan Cumming and Ian McKellen. I rented it and enjoyed it. I bought it for my collection, which I finally revisited on November 7, 2024.

However, I wasn’t feeling well at the time and I didn’t make a lot of notes or write anything resembling a review. What I remember is that I enjoyed this just as much as I did the first time, which was a lot. It is a very quirky, very emotional, very interesting film. And someday I’ll have to give it another go so I write something more substantial than this.