We Read Movies

We Read Movies

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We Read Movies episodes

  • They/Them (with Adam Sass)

    This week, for Spooky Season we watched the recent LGBTQ+ Kevin Bacon horror movie They/Them, about a killer who's stalking a gay conversion camp. Except, it's barely a horror movie, since the kids are in no danger, and the only people getting slashed are the jerks who run the camp. And because it bares a certain similarity to his book, Surrender Your Sons, we invited Adam Sass to come talk about it with us.

    Topics discussed:

    1. Tim Curry's hatred of Scrappy Doo
    2. Shirley Markowitz
    3. DoesTheDogDie.com
    4. Gay sex angles
    5. Victorian babydoll heads on grown men's bodies

      6. Links mentioned in this episode:

      • https://www.adamsassbooks.com/
      • https://bookshop.org/books/the-99-boyfriends-of-micah-summers/9780593464786
      • https://bookshop.org/books/surrender-your-sons/9781635830613

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        1 hr 33 min
      • At the End of the Day

        This week, we watched the 2018 gay christian movie At the End of the Day, about a bigot who learns, through subterfuge and the power of love, to be slightly less bigotted. Featuring inappropriate pranks and even more inappropriate eating, the movie left us with a couple of questions, like "is this even a gay movie?"

        Topics discussed:

        1. What's Kyle's whole deal?
        2. Why is Bruce a gay name?
        3. The correct pronunciation of gif
        4. Monster energy drink is not one of god's creations

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          1 hr 35 min
        5. Ice Blues

          This week, we watched the fourth and final (until we get that Kickstarter off the ground) movie in the Donald Strachey mysteries, Ice Blues. The most comprehensible and therefore the least fun of the series, it's also his least gay, but don't worry, we'll still find plenty to talk about, like how much killing a man with his bare hands seems to turn Strachey's husband on.

          Topics discussed:

          1. Why do bearer bonds exist?
          2. What would you name your lawfirm?
          3. This title doesn't make any sense
          4. Pizza crime

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            1 hr 37 min
          5. House of Adam

            This week, we watched the 2006 movie House of Adam. Done by the same director as past episode D'Agostino, this movie purports to be a gay ghost story, but the ghost doesn't show up for until the last 5 minutes or so. Instead we get about 40 minutes of corporate intrigue, some straight people who are very game for violating the Geneva Conventions in the name of justice, and an unintentionally hilarious hate crime.

            Topics discussed:

            1. What is Detective School?
            2. Chris describes a porno
            3. Sexy ghosts
            4. Eric is able to remember the name of Kyra Sedgwick
            5. No, seriously, what is Detective School?

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              1 hr 21 min
            6. Shadowlands

              This week, we watched the 2018 movie anthology. No, not that Shadowlands... No, not that Shadowlands either... The other one. The gay one. Okay, well, they made a gay movie called Shadowlands and someone fucks a ghost in it. It's not surprising that you've never heard of it, but I promise you it's real. You can watch it on Tubi if you want, but don't bother, it wasn't good. Anyway, that's the movie we watched this week

              Topics discussed:

              1. Which painting would you have sex with?
              2. Ghost sex
              3. The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe
              4. What do our dreams mean?

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                1 hr 19 min
              5. Cruising

                This week, we watched the 1980 Al Pacino movie Cruising, about a serial killer stalking the gay S&M cruising community, and the undercover cop who maybe catches him. Or maybe is the killer himself? The movie's very confusing, but what we do know is that someone's getting fisted in the background of one of the scenes, so we're on board!

                Topics discussed:

                1. The best thing to shoplift
                2. Jim Varney's extra skin
                3. How can Punch and Judy be more fun?
                4. One of the wildest scenes we've ever seen
                5. How to catch a serial killer who has no sperm

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                  1 hr 30 min
                6. SHORTS: Stonewall and Queer Pop Culture (with Matt Baume)

                  This week, as a supplement to our episode on Stonewall, we had the incomparable Matt Baume on to talk to us about queer representation both before and after the Stonewall riots. Join us as we learn about the history of queer portrayals in media, from anti-gay propaganda films up to that time Archie Bunker met a trans woman

                  Links mentioned in this episode:

                  • https://www.youtube.com/c/mattbaume
                  • https://twitter.com/mattbaume?lang=en

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                    35 min
                  • Stonewall

                    This week, because it's Pride Month, we talked about the 2015 movie Stonewall, the movie that asked, what if we took a real event and replaced almost all the black people in it with one bland white dude? Also, they throw in a little fem shaming and a weird third act kidnapping,

                    Topics discussed:

                    1. The Corndog Killer
                    2. How to hide your porn
                    3. Gay directors making gay movies for straight people
                    4. Mercifully we DON'T talk about kink at Pride discourse
                    5. Is J. Edgar Hoover in this movie?

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                      1 hr 19 min
                    6. Hold Your Peace

                      This week, Chris texted the group while drunk on a Wednesday at 12:30am and said "guys we NEED to do the 2011 movie Hold Your Peace. The movie is super boring, it's about a guy who's trying to break up his ex's wedding. But the bachelor party scene is incredible!" (There were a lot more spelling errors in the text, but we sheltered you from that) Was Chris right? Was the bachelor party incredible, or merely deeply upsetting? Let's find out!

                      Topics discussed:

                      1. The rules of King's Cup
                      2. MLM sex toy parties
                      3. Straight Simpson's incest porn pop-ups on gay websites
                      4. Twink shaming
                      5. What's the sluttiest kind of clothing and why is it a tuxedo?

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                        1 hr 17 min
                      6. Kept Boy

                        Sorry it's late! Chris decided to eat at a disreputable but delicious teriyaki place and then be bedridden for 3 days with the worst case of food poisoning he's ever had, but this week, we watched the 2017 movie Kept Boy. When an aging sugar baby feels his boyfriend falling for the pool boy, he tries to win him back through trickery. But is it really him who's being tricked? Or the audience, by the most ridiculous twist ending we've ever seen?

                        Also, will this experience teach Chris anything about being more selective about where he eats? Probably not

                        Topics discussed:

                        1. Chris describes more of the gay porno "Boy Band"
                        2. That time when Elon Musk injecting twink blood
                        3. Tom Bombadil but gay
                        4. Scheme, heists, capers and hijinx
                        5. The sexual preferences of owls

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                          1 hr 30 min

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                        There are good gay movies out there, but we won't be talking about them. We're three unqualified nobodies who discuss the very worst that gay cinema has to offer. At We Read Movies, we don't just…