The ever-changing light on the desolate Arctic island where two meteorologists operate a weather station is as fluctuating as the tense relationship between the men in Alexei Popogrebsky’s gripping survival drama, “How I Ended This Summer.” More
Smith, the bisexual Southern California college student whose misadventures — some possibly in his own head, many in other people’s beds — are at the center of “Kaboom,” is a cinema studies major. This fact in itself may not be enough to establish him as an alter ego for the director, Gregg Araki, but it does allow Mr. Araki to offer some hints about what he is up to in this chaotic, trifling, oddly likable film. More
“Blackmail Boys” is basically about just that: a young gay couple and their ill-fated attempt to coerce a famous figure into paying them to keep his gay identity from view. Sam (Nathan Adloff), a part-time student in Chicago, has been turning tricks to make ends meet, but what he really wants is enough money to marry and go on a honeymoon with his live-in boyfriend, Aaron (Taylor Reed). More
A cautionary tale on the inadvisability of dating without background checks, Sebastián Cordero’s “Rage (Rabia)” turns an ill-advised love affair into a voyeuristic study of masculine obsession and class persecution. More
“Strongman,” Zachary Levy’s lump-in-the-throat portrait of an aging muscleman, is an outsider tale of unforced rawness and lilting poignancy. Not that Stanley Pleskun, a k a Stanless Steel, is in any way clapped out: he can hoist 10,000-pound trucks with his legs and three adults with a single finger. It’s the emotional heavy lifting that does him in. More
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