I'm feeling sorry for myself this weekend (see the earlier entry in re: drink date) so I stayed in this evening and watched two very different gay-themed movies. The first one was The Last Year, about a kid at bible college who's struggling with the "wrong" urges. I give it high scores for being earnest, but man-o-man was it a bad film.
On the other hand, I got to watch A Touch of Pink, in which Jimi Mistry plays a gay guy who's moved to London and found himself a lovely boyfriend, but isn't out to his family. And his mother pays him a surprise visit. The chief pleasure of the film is watching Kyle MacLaughlan channel Cary Grant, who is Jimi's sort of imaginary friend throughout the film. It's not the greatest film ever made, by any stretch, but I enjoyed it. I kinda go back and forth on Jimi Mistry as an actor. Sometimes I find him charming and dead on, and then other times I just don't buy him. Kyle MacLaughlin is great, though. And I really enjoyed the actor who plays Mistry's boyfriend, a guy named Kristen Holden-Reid. Also charming.
On the other hand, I got to watch A Touch of Pink, in which Jimi Mistry plays a gay guy who's moved to London and found himself a lovely boyfriend, but isn't out to his family. And his mother pays him a surprise visit. The chief pleasure of the film is watching Kyle MacLaughlan channel Cary Grant, who is Jimi's sort of imaginary friend throughout the film. It's not the greatest film ever made, by any stretch, but I enjoyed it. I kinda go back and forth on Jimi Mistry as an actor. Sometimes I find him charming and dead on, and then other times I just don't buy him. Kyle MacLaughlin is great, though. And I really enjoyed the actor who plays Mistry's boyfriend, a guy named Kristen Holden-Reid. Also charming.
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