Bear Nation (now on video)

[BEAR NATION is now available on home video.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Not long ago I complained on this blog thusly: for a man who isn't gay I seem to get assigned an inordinate amount of gay movies to watch, by all my various freelance publishers. Like I'm being subjected to some fiendish hidden psychological experiment of longstanding. Like instead of the standard "KICK ME" sign secretly taped to my shirt back in school someone wrote "MAKE THIS GUY WATCH LOTS OF GAY MOVIES," and I still haven't noticed it's there. Like God is making me one of His little jokes - or maybe making me a Job-like example to others of what could happen.

I mean, the other day a spirit materialized in front of me and said, "Mr. Cassady, what the hell? Why in the world are you watching so many damn gay movies? If it were me I'd go crazy!" I consulted with Mary Ann the Ghost Buster, who identified the apparition. It was Vito Russo (mild chuckle in the back of the auditorium from the one or two people who got that one).

Yet Another Gay Movie I had to do? BEAR NATION. And I'm taking you all down with me...

Red State (now available on home video)

[RED STATE is now available on home video.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

RED STATE has been promoted as Kevin Smith's take on the horror genre, and for about the first 30 minutes or so that would be a fair enough description. A trio of teens (Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner and Nicholas Braun) hoping to get lucky answer an online personal ad from a woman who claims to want all three of them at once. The woman is Sarah Cooper (Melissa Leo), who turns out to be the daughter of fire and brimstone preacher Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), clearly modeled after Westboro Baptist nutjob Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps.