[Books] Doctor Who: The Angel's Kiss (A Melody Malone Mystery)

Every year on my birthday I spam my social networks with my Amazon Kindle Wish List and see what sticks for folks. I've gotten a few interesting ebook gifts over the years and it's a fun way to see what my friends want me to read.

However it was Tobie who managed to gift me with Doctor Who: The Angel's Kiss, which is a delightful little novella told in the voice of popular Doctor Who character River Song. The book is meant to tie-in directly with the episode "The Angels Take Manhattan" from the seventh season of the 2005 revival of the franchise.

I'm already a big fan of River Song - she's such a sassy, sexy, and intelligent character and has managed to present herself as quite the equal on screen for the Doctor. To have an entire book supposedly written by her just to get the Doctor's attention was a novel idea and this book nicely gives us a taste of her literary adventures.

[Movies] The Lone Ranger (2013)

As much as I'm not into Westerns as a movie genre, I still respect the greater role they play in American cinema. Different strokes for different folks, right? And to be fair, there are some pretty interesting dramas that are set against the whole Wild West background.

But The Lone Ranger seems to have the distinction for being one of the worst movies of the years, if the various reviews are to be believed. Ironically I had no intention of watching this movie until all the reviews came out - the discussions claiming that it was so horrible sort of pushed me to go see it.

Does this movie deserve to be tagged as one of (if not the) worst movies of 2013? As always, the final answer is rather subjective, but I think it's clear that this movie was definitely not one of the best out there. It still had its decent moments (mostly towards the end though) but the rest of it was just...weird. Not necessarily bad - I'm sure it could have worked under different circumstances. It's just that the net result was generally odd for me.

[Comics] Artifice

A lot of my reviews on this blog are triggered by things that we actually had to invest money in - this includes movie tickets, actual physical books and season passes for stage plays. So one of the things that sort of falls through the cracks are free content items that exist on the internet for everyone to enjoy. Given there's no investment, a lot of times I end up forgetting about them or favoring reviews for things of distinct monetary value.

But Artifice is way more than just a random webcomic that should be set aside and forgotten. If anything, it's one of the more striking stories that I've read and it's certainly fortunate that the entire comic is available online for free. A physical copy of the comic is also available though and I'm considering trying to track one down to add it to my collection.

I really enjoyed Artifice given how it managed to remain an LGBT story without needing to clearly mention that it's an LGBT story every other panel or something - if you get my drift. At the end of the day this is still a science fiction story, although one with definite romantic leanings.

[Movies] Fat Choi Spirit (2002)

During our flight over to Singapore, I found myself digging up Andy Lau movies in the plane's entertainment options in order to preoccupy myself on the flight over. As much as there were an insane range of options of what to watch, I figured that this was as good a chance as any to take the time to watch a movie with subtitles.

I learned to enjoy Andy Lau movies back when Star Mandarin was a free channel across typical SkyCable subscription packages. My brother and I spent many a night getting into this Hong Kong movie or another, and Andy Lau quickly became one of the more recognizable actors that we came across.

Fat Choi Spirit is admittedly one of my favorites, and it's one that taps into the love for the game of Mahjong. And while it has been a number of years since I've last watched this movie, it's one that has really stuck in my memory for one reason or another.

[TV] The New Doctor Who - Series 7

Given the rather extended manner in which recent Doctor Who serials have been broadcast, I end up forgetting to post reviews. Case in point, this seventh series of the new Doctor Who ran from 2012 to 2013 in two distinct parts. My intention to review the entire series got somewhat lost in the frenzied build-up to the 50th anniversary of the show as a whole.

So here I am trying to play catch-up in terms of my reviews just as the world is waiting for the Christmas special to air and Matt Smith's run as the Doctor finally come to an end. On a somewhat similar note, this seventh serial of the series also brings us to the end of Amy Pond and Rory Williams being companions for our dear Doctor and introducing his newest companion Clara. But we'll get into those details once we're in the review proper.

This may not be the best season for the show, but it was certainly an interesting one. And given the fact that the 50th anniversary lay in the show's future as it was being aired, I can totally understand the need to use this season as a way to get to that point and the larger plans for the Doctor as a whole. The 50th anniversary special certainly gave us a new direction and this season of the series contributed significantly to that greater effort.

[Games] Takenoko

In the post Kung Fu Panda era, it has become more commonly accepted that pandas are indeed cute. Whether it's because of the interesting interplay between the colors black and white or the general theory that chubby animals are automatically cute, pandas kinda rock. And a board game with a panda as part of the central mechanic can be pretty darned adorable.

We picked up Takenoko primarily because it looked like a heck of a lot of fun when they played it on Wil Wheaton's Tabletop. Tobie and I are pretty keen on games that involve a fair amount of strategic thinking and creative ways to score points for victory. And Takenoko manages to capture this experience wonderfully in one adorable package.

[Comics] Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time

With this year being the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, pretty much everyone involved in the franchise tried to do something special to mark the event. Beyond the special episode "The Day of the Doctor", we also had commemorative books like the Doctor Who: The Vault and a wide number of documentary TV specials.

But another interesting part of the on-going adventures of the Doctor involve the various comic book stories created by IDW Publishing. They've not only followed the recent Doctors since the 2005 reboot, but they've also tried to create additional stories featuring the various Doctors of the classic era with a good degree of success. Or at least that's how I choose to view the comics - they've managed to stay alive in this rather cutthroat environment after all. Plus they do have some rather interesting stories for our dear Doctor.

And IDW's big celebration for the 50th anniversary was this 12-issue special story called the Prisoners of Time. It's a pretty epic story touching on the Doctor's eleven known incarnations (at least known prior to "The Day of the Doctor") and tying everything together as they face on big villain. It's a very traditional story format - one that we've seen in previous instances when multiple versions of the Doctor have gotten a chance to deal with one another more directly.

[Movies] Turbo (2013)

There are some movies that come along that just make me wonder what the producers were thinking in putting it together. As much as Hollywood is a realm of nearly infinite possibilities and they're free to come up with any ideas that they want, there are always going to be those concepts that leave you scratching your head.

Turbo felt that way for me. After all, it's a movie about a snail who dreams of racing in the Indy 500. Who comes up with an idea like that? Who comes up with the marketing logic that a snail racing movie is going to hit it off with kids or some other market segment? Whatever the reason, the movie got made and there it is.

But the movie received fairly good reviews during its theatrical run and made a decent profit at the box office. It has also been confirmed that this quirky group of snails will also get a television series called Turbo F.A.S.T. which will air on Netflix.

So I guess there really is a market for CGI-animated racing snails.

[Books] Different Strokes

I'm primarily on NetGalley because of the Angry Robot Books review program, but on the whole it's a great resource for review titles that one can read for free as long as you commit to posting reviews about the works. And for this blog, that's a bit of a no-brainer.

Every now and then I wander into the LGBT fiction to see what may be of interest. But admittedly I just skim synopses without paying too much attention to the full details of the book.

When I had downloaded Different Strokes some time back, I just figured it would be yet another LGBT romance novel (and one written by a woman too!) In this case it was actually just a novella given the book is only about 70 pages long, which is more like a hiccup for a reader like me. So I ended up reading the whole thing in one go right before heading to bed.

Reading gay male fiction written by women is rather interesting. I suppose it factors in a lot of things based on how women see things or what she may have learned from her gay friends. She's not too far from the mark in terms of how she writes her gay characters, although there are moments that her more feminine sensibilities certainly come forward more.

[Movies] What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

My efforts to watch more Bette Davis movies has lead me through some interesting paths. I'm still trying to figure out if I liked her earlier movies more than her latter ones - it's like she becomes a completely different actress at some point in her career and thus it's hard to compare her works with any degree of accuracy. And it's not like should have to do that either - all of them are great in one way or another. It's really just a question of what your preferred flavor is.

This movie surprised me since it wasn't one that was a comedy or a typical drama. Instead it's a pretty serious suspense thriller, one that remains pretty intense despite it being in black and white. You don't need all those special effects in order to properly tell a scary story.

This story wasn't quite on the level of the Hitchcock thrillers, but it's still a great story. And the team of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford make for quite the heavy-hitting cast as we watch the two of them sink down into a rather dark place indeed.

[TV] The Legend of Korra - Book Two: Spirits

Even though the first season of The Legend of Korra hadn't been quite as impressive as we had hoped, I know a lot of us were still happy to hear that the show had been confirmed for a second season. Given our love for the original Avatar series, I certainly felt that I had a fair amount of loyalty invested in the franchise. Thus I continued to hope for the best in terms of the show's direction, especially now that it was free to tell more stories with already established characters.

The chapter was announced to be called Spirits, which certainly presented an interesting realm of possibilities. The first Avatar series focused on the elements that Aang had to master in order to eventually defeat Fire Lord Osai. This time around the writers opted to deviate from the elemental path and focus on the other side of the role of the avatar - being the bridge between humans and the spirit world. So yeah, the thought tackling stories related to this were certainly exciting.

But the show still suffered from character development issues that had started in the first season. And this took away from some of the potential value of the show. And while it certainly had its valuable moments that have greatly enriched the Avatar universe, it still has a long way to go before it can stand up right there with the rest of the Avatar franchise.

[Games] Star Trek Catan

Tobie surprised me with a rather early Christmas gift in the form of ordering the Star Trek Catan board game. We had already been playing Settlers of Catan for some time now with our friends, but once I had watched the Tabletop playthrough of the game, I knew we just had to get a copy of this game. At the time we had never spotted a set in local stores but by the time it arrived on a slow boat from California, it seems that Hobbes & Landes started stocking the game in earnest.

He also bought a copy of the Federation Space expansion, but we have yet to try it at this time. So for today's review,well focus on the base game set itself and all of it's Star Trek goodness.

[Comics] Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise

Despite that fact that I'm way more into reading books than my partner Tobie is, I have come to accept that he has an uncanny skill for finding rather interesting gems during our trips to various book stores and such.

Case in point, he managed to find this lovely collected edition of Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, which collects all three issues of the original comic book mini-series. We're quite big fans of the original cartoon given the quality of the writing behind it and the very fulfilling narrative experience that was the story that drove the show. It's also what we continue to hope for when we watch The Legend of Korra, although the show has failed to meet expectations across two full seasons thus far.

But like many genre shows that are no longer on the air, it's interesting to note how Avatar: The Last Airbender has managed to find a bit of a new world of its own in comic book form that is working out decently well. They offer a glimpse into the life of the Avatar after the events of the TV series - something that is not clearly addressed in the new Korra cartoon.

[Movies] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

One of my primary rules for writing reviews is to do my best to separate the source material from the adaptation - especially when it comes to movies. No matter how much the movie claims to be a faithful recreation of a prior work, it's only fair to at least try to treat it as a completely independent work.

It's not at all easy and I know I goof all the time. And this is especially true for adaptations tied to source material that I know rather well or feel relatively passionate about - enter The Hobbit.

I think I've already made my point in my about how silly it is that this is a trilogy in a prior post, so let's just live with that fact. Sure, we're not 100% happy that Peter Jackson turned a book geared for a younger audience into three mega-movies. Yes, we have to accept that Jackson and his team have to come up with new content to stretch the movie sufficiently to last three movies. But that's Hollywood for you.

So here's my attempt to review the movie - not how well the movie follows the book.

[Technicolor Musings] Your Tolerance Isn't Appreciated

T-shirt design by OAWAN

The other day, this image was posted on the Doctor Who and the T.A.R.D.I.S. fan page. This was actually a T-shirt design by a person named OAWAN that nicely depicts the interesting interspecies same-sex marriage between two Doctor Who characters - the Silurian Vastra and the human Jenny.

As is the way of the internet, someone had to complain about the image in the comment threat. A user named James had this to add to the discussion:

"ok we get it gay marriage, why not throw up more pictures of straight couples like amy and rory ? yeah we are to be tolerant of everyone but doesn't have to be thrown in our faces every waking min"

Naturally the Whovian community involved in the page were quite to criticize his insensitive statement and stress how Doctor Who is about many values including keeping an open mind for the different possibilities in the universe and other related lessons. And truly, such is the way of the Doctor - to see the good in everything and everyone and of course support their freedom to be their true selves.

That one word - tolerant - can be really grating at times. You tolerate things may you feel uncomfortable or that you don't like but have no choice in terms of whether or not you have to continue to be exposes to that thing. Tolerance is about putting up with something. And thus, to claim that you're such a great person because of how tolerant you are is hardly a true statement. Nor should anyone subject to your "tolerance" feel somehow honored or thankful that you're trying to be less of a douche bag - but not by much.

Ultimately, how the LGBT community is perceived by most has a long way to go. But naturally we do our best to keep up the fight for equality as we try to break such negative stereotypes that push these sorts of statements and behaviors.

[Movies] Duplicty (2009)

There are days when I actually dig up a movie to watch just to have something to review for this blog. It's part of the "job" that this labor of love of a site is and sometimes it does mean that I get to enjoy some seriously interesting movies. Other times, well, at least I have something to review.

If you were to ask me the basic question of whether or not I liked Duplicity, I'm really not sure what to say immediately. I'd hate to have to answer the question with a response like "Well, it depends" - but that may be precisely how I feel about this. There's a lot going on in terms of this narrative that can distract you from value of watching Clive Owen and Julia Roberts try to flirt the pants off one another without actually flirting.

Then again, maybe you really enjoy those sorts of overly complicated narratives that require that you think in 4 dimensions. Or maybe you like transition devices that feel more at home in the 1960's even though that's not the setting of the movie.

[Theater] The Producers (Repertory Philippines)

I'm a big Mel Brooks fan. I know I have my biological father to blame for this, but I don't regret this fact one bit. Sure, sometimes it's hard to find people who can fully relate to Mel Brooks humor these days, but then the folks that do get it make it all worth it.

Beyond his movies, Mel Brooks also has a bit of a thing for musicals, as seen in the limited musical numbers worked into his other comedies and of course his actual theater work. I don't think any of us could have predicted what a great musical The Producers would become based on the movie alone. But I guess there's something about two friends trying to cheat their way into money that makes for good musical comedy.

I was surprised when I first found out that Repertory Philippines intended to stage this musical locally. It's not exactly an easy show to run and it's one that's a little close to my heart given my longtime love of Mel Brooks. So I knew I had to see it in order to satisfy my curiosity and this certainly for an interesting play to cap off my 2013 theater year.

[TV] The Venture Bros: Season 2

Continuing my adventures following The Venture Bros., we're now on the second season of the show for today's review. The first season wasn't necessarily all that coherent (which is part of the show's charm), but that still didn't stop it from getting to another season. And as with many other shows, this also presented an opportunity for the writers to actually start to expand on the character back stories and flesh things out even further.

This is not to say that the show suddenly evolved into a serious adventure cartoon or something like that. As much as characters have had a chance to develop, they continue to be highly damaged and whose sanity may often be in question given their life choices. But it's the craziness that helps make everything so much fun on a number of levels.

I appreciated the fact that we got a lot more focus on The Monarch as compared to other villains. A revolving line-up of baddies can be pretty fun, but the show really needed to give us more Monarch. And in turn, we also got more exposure to his rather unusual henchmen.

[Gadgets] Native Union Monocle

My continuing relationship with Digits Trading Corporation has exposed me to a number of interesting and unique mobile accessories. But this definitely stands out as a particularly alternative variation on the conventional external speaker design.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of the Native Union Monocle when I first received my review unit. I mean seriously, we all know monocles to be those weird single-lens glass thingies that people used to use back in the day. But this is an audio accessory - and it boasted quite a number of features.

But once I had gotten the device out of the packaging, I have to admit that I've had a lot of fun tinkering with the it. It's definitely a great external speaker with a very different concept behind it. It may not necessarily be as practical as other speakers around, but it's certainly one that has a clear identity that it wants to present.

Whether or not this concept is one that you're prepared to buy into is really up to you.

[Comics] Doctor Who: The Forgotten

For as long as the Doctor has had multiple incarnations, writers know that fans enjoy any excuse to have the different Doctors meet one another. We first saw this happen in the classic Doctor Who episode "The Three Doctors" and saw it happen as recent as "The Day of the Doctor" 50th anniversary episode. And let's face it - it is a heck of a lot of fun to see the different versions of the same character try to work together to defeat some greater challenge.

Doctor Who: The Forgotten is a lovely comic book mini-series that sort of capitalizes on that same aspect of the Doctor Who fan culture - showcasing the diverse history of the different Doctors. And while this story doesn't quite involve the Doctor working together with his alternate selves, it is an interesting tribute piece that involves the Tenth Doctor drawing from his past experiences in order to get out of the present crisis.

And while I'm not a major fan of the art, I really did enjoy this story. For those of you wishing to dabble in the Doctor Who comic books, this might be a nice story to venture into.

[Movies] G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

You see that poster? That's a shirtless Byung-hun Lee. That is a shirtless Storm Shadow. And that poster pretty much sets the tone for this movie. And it's not like G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was the most brilliant, thought-provoking piece of movie-making in the world. But it was a fun movie - and this one was oddly even more entertaining.

At the end of the day, this is a movie based on an action figure toyline. And while it's not entirely meant solely for kids, that statement isn't too far off the mark/. But of course folks had some pretty high, typical action movie expectations for this production and so it was generally panned in critics circles.

Despite bad reviews, it was quite the success at the box office which says a lot about the movie as a whole. It's not the kind of movie that makes you learn something new. It's a fun movie that lets you celebrate the kid in you with lots of action and apparently a shirtless Storm Shadow.

I'm not sure whose childhood we're celebrating now.

[Movies] The Curiosity of Chance (2006)

I've been steadily trying to go through my surprisingly vast queue of LGBT movies for review purposes and it has been a rather interesting experience. I've always felt that one of the biggest challenges of the LGBT movie segment is the fact that a lot of them don't get enough press or attention. Thus many go unwatched since we typically don't have any clear idea of what the movie is about.

I wandered into The Curiosity of Chance out of, well, curiosity. I mean come on, the movie poster graphic featured a kid in a top hat. I wasn't quite sure what the movie was going to be about other than a brief synopsis, so it was an interesting experience. But hey, top hat! I'll go for the top hat!

The movie is and different kind of comedy that tries to tap into the difficulty of being an out gay teen in high school. The time setting of the 1980's probably wasn't all that necessary, but it did have the nice benefit of eliminating the use of mobile phones form the narrative.

[Movies] John Dies at the End (2012)

I originally planned to watch this movie after I had finished reading the book. However my pace with reading the book has slowed down a bit as of late due to work obligations and the overall pacing of the novel. So one thing led to another and I figured that watching the movie might help push me to finish the rest of the book sooner.

John Dies at the End is a certainly quirky piece of work. Reading the book alone told me that any adaptation would certainly be on the weird side. And true enough the movie starts out with some pretty faithful adaptations of scenes from the book. That has to be a good thing, right?

But despite the potentially fun b-movie level horror tropes involved, John Dies at the End as a movie wasn't quite all that I had hoped. And while the core story was certainly there, there was a lot about it that just didn't quite work for me. At the end of the day, it was just a decent movie but it could have been a lot more fun

[Theater] The Addams Family (Atlantis Productions)

This year's show line-up from Atlantis Productions was rather disappointing, I have to admit. The whole Viva-Atlantis partnership seemed rather pointless to me and the shows that they had actually chosen for the year didn't exactly pique my interesting.

Initially we had no intentions of watching The Addams Family when the news first broke up. But seeing K-La Rivera's performance in Carrie helped sway us and convinced us to support her theater career by seeing this show. I have to admit, the girl can sing.

I was never exactly a big fan of The Addams Family, whether as a cartoon or as a weird movies franchise. But the series still had its moments and I'd be lying if I said that the show never made me smile a few times. The humor was always rather oddball and morbid, which is sort of the thing that seems a heck of a lot more interesting when you're a kid.

This local staging of a very American play was funny enough, but there were certain gaps that sort of irked me over time. And my gripes involve more than just the fact that they were all out of programs on the day we watched the show. I really like collecting theater programs, too.

[TV] The Venture Bros: Season 1

For one reason or another, we don't get full Adult Swim programming here in Asia despite having a full Cartoon Network affiliate. I guess there's that weird challenge of "Asian sensibilities" when it comes to what is appropriate for television, especially on a cable network that is primarily marketed towards children. And while in the past we have gotten shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I haven't seen much else since then.

And thus I'm very late to The Venture Bros. game given I don't think it has ever officially aired locally whether on Cartoon Network or any other Philippine channel. Then again, the humor of the show is very adult indeed and rather peculiar, to say the least.

But I have to admit, it tickles my geeky funny bone in a manner that many shows and movies don't. And thus I've been thonning the show steadily over the past few weeks. With the fifth season already in-progress, I have a bit of a ways to go.

[Gadgets] NudeAudio Move S Wired

I have to admit that the external speakers of my HTC One are pretty impressive. For individual viewing, they're more than enough to get the job done in terms of audio fulfillment. But sometimes you need something with a little extra kick, especially when you're in a place with a lot of ambient noise like at the beach or something.

Thus we have a whole segment of the mobile market dedicated to external speakers that turn your mobile devices into serious music delivery device worth of the boomboxes of old. So this little gadget was certainly an interesting device to play with.

[Books] Bearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara Book 1)

The Shannara series of books has always been a comforting fantasy escape for me. It's not the greatest fantasy book series in the world but it does have its charm. Terry Brooks later on started a new series, Word & Void, which was more of a contemporary urban fantasy series that sort of had a Gaiman-esque feel to it.

The bigger surprised was when it turned out that Brooks had plans to link the two fantasy worlds - that Word & Void was somehow a precursor to the world of Shannara. And the very thought of that has been rather mind-blowing given that the two story worlds are so drastically different from one another.

But blending the two worlds hasn't been quite as ideal - and it's a bit of a journey as well. The Legends of Shannara duology of novels is the second set of stories that work to link the two franchises together. And this one definitely feels a lot more Shannara in feel than Word & Void.

[Movies] Admission (2013)

Tina Fey's post-SNL movie career has been a little lackluster. While she has continued to shine on television, I've yet to find a Tina Fey movie (with her in the lead) as being particularly great. Sure, she makes for an amazing cameo actress (like in Mean Girls), but on her own she doesn't seem to be all that overwhelming.

Perhaps it's because she has always been more of the "straight man" from a traditional comedy perspective. She's stll a decent comedian on her own but she shines a heck of a lot more in contrast with somewhat zanier comedians like her longtime TV partner Amy Poehler and a lot of the personalities on her show, 30 Rock.

On her own, she tends to be a little drab or perhaps a tad too serious. This movie certainly tried to capitalize on that given it's comedy-drama mix to things, but I'm not quite sure if it achieved what it had intended to do. Admission is a decent enough movie, but I think the folks behind it weren't entirely sure how to market it.

[Movies] I Was A Teenage Werebear (2011)

Bonus review!

This short film was so bad, that I knew I had to post a review, but I don't want to dedicate to much time blog space for it. So I'll keep things brief.

I Was A Teenage Werebear is a 2011 gay comedy horror musical (talk about genre mash-ups) written and directed by Tim Sullivan. It's main claim to fame is the fact that it stars Sean Paul Lockhart, better known as gay porn star Brent Corrigan. This appears to be an attempt to prove that he has the capability to become a legitimate actor. I'm not holding my breath.

The movie is set in some weird 1960's period that's supposed to remind you of classic drive-in horror movies. Instead the only thing that's truly scary in this 30 minute film is Sean Paul Lockhart's singing. At first I was hoping that his terrible singing was an attempt to further the campy feel of the movie. But given some of the other stars were actually hitting their notes, I realized that this was not part of the overall campiness of the movie. The only singing that could be deemed worse than Lockhart's would probably involve Sebastian Castro or something.

Long story short, Ricky (Lockhart) falls for mysterious bad boy Talon (Anton Troy), who manages to bite Ricky during a wrestling match, thus turning him into a werebear - instead of a half-man, half-bear they all turn into leather daddies. The werebears want to eat everyone (not in a sexual way) but Ricky tries to reason with them that this is not the path to acceptance in the community. I'm serious.

The only thing that impresses me about this movie is the fact that I managed to finish it. Even at 30 minutes, it felt way too long and just too painful. This wasn't the sort of movie that's so bad that it becomes it. Given the horrible songs, bad singing and shallow plot, it just ends up as bad. This rates a 1 out of 5.

[Movies] Go Go Crazy (2011)

I'd like to think that I have a healthy appreciation for camp. This comes from the fact that I'm both gay and quite majorly into musical theater. Okay, those two things certainly have major areas of overlap, but that's my life.

I recently decided to properly catalog all the LGBT-themed movies that I had downloaded over the years in order to get a better idea of what I had to work with. I have a bit of a compulsion when it comes to acquiring these types of movies in the hopes of finding time to watch them and then eventually review them. LGBT movies are still a bit of a struggling movie genre and they can use all the support that they can get.

But not all movies are created equal and there's a lot of weird stuff out there. Go Go Crazy may be classified in that manner given its attempts to be a campy romp but in the end it fell a little short. They certainly had some ideas, but the end result was a bit of a mess. I'll explain further.