Cause i don't want to seem one sided;

        the other day i went on about what don't represent me as a fag, yet seems to be the 'accepted' idea of what constitute fags in america; of course mines' was simply a list of things, like DVD, and TV shows from some fags blog..that i thought way too white for my taste (even though, i do seem to see 90% of them same titles listed with most fag blogs, esp., white boiz.) 

        Well i wanted to try and provide another side of the coin, or script.. as some might say;
so I scanned my DVD collection to date and decided to share wit ya..as example of what type of brother i am.  Now let's not get our panties in a bunch.. cause the list is only so good as my wavering budget for DVD's and what's CHEAP at my local outlet..  meaning i favor cheap over current or ethnic; esp., aft some blood commented that my collection lacked any'ting black..well i beg to differ wit him..but i knew he was proably thinking i had way too few porn or mainstream black based films..and well, yeah, he was right; i get them kicks with my netflix account, and rarely buy said genre..(if black is a genre..folks..i think we are..actually)

        DVDs

macho Locos --

• best scene equals "El Toro enters the room of a little Latin boy-toy (Angel of ‘More ‘Rican’s Freakin’) who lies sleeping in his bed. Angel, a handsome, macho-looking hombre with a moustache and goatee, gets his moustache stretched when he rolls over in bed in time to suck some hot, thuggish Latin cock. A little face-fucking by the tattooed, rugged El Toro, right there in the hospital bed (Angel’s masculine face getting plowed as El Toro’s low-hanging balls bounce off his chin), only gets these two horny homeboys worked up more … until the macho Angel gets on his knees and actually takes that hot, foreskin-covered bull-cock up his young ass, El Toro fucking his little round butt like doing so is about to be outlawed."

lil Latin Devil -- (waste of my money)

• best scene equals "Manhattan-street pick-up and the two find themselves in a gym lockerroom. Ricky professes to be a ""lil' devil,"" and Midnight wants to find out for himself. Midnight's typical NYC banjee-boy trade, backward b-ball cap and all - and that was fine with me. They strip to their skivvies (fans of baggy boxers will dig Midnight's pair) and Ricky starts worshipping Midnight's heavily-skinned cock. (Sorry, but I hafta mention a sloppy-sound moment: What I at first thought were voiceovers from Ricky turned out to be off-camera direction from the videographer.) Midnight's dark cock starts to swell, poking out from the side of his baggies, and I was getting worked ov-ah. The soundtrack flipped from light house to kinda lame hip-hop, but I paid it no mind. I was too into the guys' actions 'n antics. Unfortunately, the antics quickly ended: the image cuts to several freeze-frames of Ricky jacking and spitting his load out. It was hot, but not what I expected; where was the fuck? Maybe he simply tired of bottoming so many times."

   

   

   

   

   

   

Latin Boyz Gone Wild -- (another waste of money)

• the best scene in this film is "A creepy sequence, as straight-trade Ponce gets sucked off by an unnamed older guy. (Titles flash on-screen implying that this was a gay-for-pay hook-up for dollars.) Not alot happens, and Ponce eventually jerks himself off as the older guy plays with his balls. He licks a bit of cum off of Ponce's just-expunged dick, too.  I've seen many Latino Fan Club movies; the guys were always super-hung, and the production values were on par, too. So what happened here? First off, the sound was a bit weak. Plus, as I stated earlier, some of these scenes felt like outtakes or retreads; the box's claim of "never seen on TV" seemed a lie. Sure some of the guys were hot, but this wasn't the "gone wild" experience I thought I was getting in to."

Rican Freak'n -- 

• the best scene in this film is"  I was so drunk last night --Alejandro and Kriz, both of whom are definitly charged in this scene; Alejandro is drunk and Kriz is on the make, cause as soon as blood is laid out on bed kriz begins what he does best--suck cock; I have to admit i have a special fondness for  Kirz's abilities, i.e., i would love to get a blowjob from him as well as fuck him; in any case this is Alejandro at his best.  He is really turned on by kriz, and stays hard from begining to end, in fact extra hard from what i can tell; the sex is nonstop, with some real nice ass shots of Alejandro, one with kriz's finger on the hole."  "hugely-hung and big-balled papis, and lots of banjee boy NYC posin' and carrying on. Make no mistake though - the threeway finale that features Viper and Joieto is A-1 excellent also." 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   Mandragora -- (strange but interesting..worth the watch)
  

  • this film is "a fictionalized look at the sordid scene in this fascinating film that both condemns the lifestyle and wallows in obvious sexual fascination. This deliriously hyperventilating drama recounts a teen boy’s tragic descent into prostitution, violence and drugs. Sixteen-year-old Marek (Caslavka) leaves his dreary small-town life for the beautiful but treacherous streets of Prague. He quickly is lured by a greasy pimp into selling his body to the many tourists who flock to the city for its cathedrals, castles and tender male flesh. Emboldened by his early appeal, Marek and his handsome streetwise buddy David decide to go into the teen flesh trade themselves. But kinky johns, all-too-available drugs and their own self-destructive natures propel them instead into a hellish world that offers no return."
    

   

   Sex Life in LA 2 -- (i could do without this in my collection)
  

  • "The follow-up to SEX/LIFE IN L.A., this sequel delves further into the lives of young men employed by the sex profession. Everyone knows sex is a part of life, but for the subjects of this documentary, one rarely exists without the other. Coming seven years after director Jochen Hick's first film, SEX/LIFE IN L.A. 2- CYCLES OF PORN provides viewers with an inside look at the world of sex workers through illuminating interviews with some of his former subjects: porn stars Kevin Kramer, Cole Tucker, and Matt Bradshaw. Hick also explores the ways in which the gay adult industry changed over the preceding seven years, taking a detailed look at the phenomena of condomless "bareback films," and at the ways in which webcams have been incorporated into the adult film business."
    

   

   

   

   

   ShortBus -- (well, i ani't on bus)
  

  • "Writer/director John Cameron Mitchell follows up the cult classic HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH with another salacious slice of sex-laden cinema.  Mitchell interweaves three separate tales of highly sexed and sexually frustrated New Yorkers, all of whom find some kind of salvation at an underground club named Shortbus. Anything goes at Shortbus--wild orgies between people from different ages, backgrounds, and sexual preferences are treated as commonplace, and most of the sex scenes shot through Mitchell's voyeuristic lens are completely unsimulated. Mitchell allows little time for his audience to pause for breath, opening SHORTBUS with a frantic collage of copulation and carnality that features most of his central characters. These include Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist who has never reached full orgasm; gay couple James (Paul Dawson)--who begins the movie by fellating himself--and Jamie (PJ DeBoy); and Severin (Lindsay Beamish), a dominatrix who finds herself unable to find true love.  "
    

   

  Boys Don't Cry -- (i refuse to watch the end of this)
  

  • is a 1999 independent drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was raped and murdered by his male friends after they found out he had female genitalia.

    What has become of Teena Brandon's killers, John Lotter and Tom Nissen?
    John Lotter is on death row awaiting execution in the state's electric chair. Tom Nissen is serving a life sentence in prison. Nissen's sentence came after he agreed to testify against Lotter. The two men were convicted of the murder of Teena Brandon, who used the alias Brandon Teena when she posed as a man. They killed the 21-year-old in an attempt to silence her after she told the police that they raped her when they learned her true gender. Two others who were witness to Teena's murder were also killed at the scene by the two men.

     

    Constaine -- (mines is bootleg, but i do like..kinda funny)
    

    • John Constantine has been to hell and back.
      
      Born with a gift he didn’t want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (KEANU REEVES) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil’s foot soldiers back to the depths.
      But Constantine is no saint. Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he’s a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn’t want your admiration or your thanks – and certainly not your sympathy.
      All he wants is a reprieve.

Radio -- (duh, i guess it's o.k., i just think Cuba Gooding, Jr is cool)

• Radio is a dramatic tale inspired by true events that focus on the mentoring relationship between a high school football coach (Ed Harris) and Radio (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) -- who his mother describes as "the same as everybody else, just a little slower than most" -- and how their unique friendship ultimately transforms the entrenched attitudes of a small South Carolina town.  nicknamed ‘Radio’ because of his vintage radio collection and his love of music -- is a loner in Anderson, South Carolina, pushing his ever-present grocery cart up and down the streets. He speaks to no one and is rarely spoken to, until one day, Coach Harold Jones (Harris), one of the town’s most respected men, and coach of the popular high school football team, befriends him.

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Gothika -- (i like hallie, but this and catwoman make me think twice)

• When Miranda awakens from the horrific incident, she is shocked to discover that her husband has been murdered - and the bloody evidence points directly at her. Unable to fathom having committed an unmotivated act of such sheer brutality against a man she loved and admired, Miranda suddenly finds herself confined to Woodward alongside the highly unstable patients she used to treat with methodical detachment.
  With no memory of the night in question except for fractured visions of the hauntingly enigmatic girl, the doctor's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Her claims of innocence are seen as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness by her former colleagues like Dr. Pete Graham (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.), Miranda's sympathetic but skeptical coworker who is wrestling with issues of his own. There are some tense, truly disturbing moments, as when Miranda revisits the house where she allegedly murdered her husband, but there are no real surprises in this film. It follows the conventions of mainstream American horror with paint-by-the-numbers efficiency, down to the inevitable one-on-one interview between the heroine and the about-to-be-unmasked villain. In the end, everything is as the audience knows it will be, with order restored, justice done, and the horror defanged. Those who like their chills diluted may enjoy it, but anyone who prefers their horror straight up is likely to find the film a disappointment.

Sum of All Fears --   (well, it only cost me 4.00 bucks)

(i think Morgan Freeman is black..but it didn't help this film none--A little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt.)

• In this drama,  Ben Affleck stars as Jack Ryan, the CIA agent-- here, Ryan is dealing with a terrifying new problem: a nuclear weapon has fallen into the hands of foreign terrorists who are determined to create a war between Russia and the U.S.
  As the film begins, a South African arms dealer (Colm Feore) acquires a long-lost nuclear weapon and sells it, at great profit, to a resurgent group of fascists led by Dressler (Alan Bates), who plans to lure the U.S. and Russia into a war. Soon after, the Russian premiere dies and the relatively unknown Nemerov (Ciarán Hinds) replaces him. But U.S. president Fowler (James Cromwell) smells a rat, and calls CIA chief William Cabot (Morgan Freeman) and special agent Jack Ryan (Affleck), the junior analyst who has been researching Nemerov, into action.
  

the Fan -- (somehow i cann't get to the end)

• Quick-tempered Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) has an ex-wife who hates him, a son who fears him, and a job that he’s about to lose. The only thing that this down-on-his-luck knife salesman can count on is baseball. He's a loyal, die hard fan, specifically when it comes to his favorite player, Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). Renard has followed Rayburn’s career since day one and is thrilled that his hero has just signed with his hometown team, the San Francisco Giants. When Rayburn hits a slump, his number one fan decides to help him by any means necessary. But when Rayburn discovers the lengths to which his admirer has gone to "help" him and begins to fear Renard, the disturbed fan becomes disillusioned with his hero and focuses his aggression toward Rayburn and his family. De Niro is creepy and menacing as the obsessed Renard, a psychotic stalker who ingratiates himself with his victim. 
  

SOS, Summer of Sam -- (i really like this, and i'm not a spike fan)

• Spike Lee's sizzling interpretation of the summer of 1977 in New York City, when thermometers shattered and a serial killer terrorized the city, focuses on an Italian-American community in the Bronx--specifically, Dionna (Mira Sorvino) and Vinny (John Leguizamo), a couple whose marriage is threatened by Vinny's obsession with other women. After Vinny returns home one night to find a killer has murdered two local women, he promises to mend his cheating ways, albeit unsuccessfully. As the media exploits the murders and a blackout threatens to unleash anarchy on the city, its inhabitants begin to look for a scapegoat who will release them from the reign of terror created by the chilling figure known only as the Son of Sam (Michael Badalucco). Lee’s ambitious film does more than re-create the events that unfolded during the summer of 1977; in addition to being an entertaining time capsule, it also deals graphically with the concept of the mob mentality

  Mistake #1
  Set in the summer of 1977, serial killer David Berkowitz is seen throughout the film wearing a US Army woodland camouflage pattern field jacket. The Army did not start using these jackets nor were any ever made until the early 1980's.  They were all solid green until then.
  
  Mistake #2
  When John Leguizamo's vigilante friends confront him in his apartment, they pull his phone off the wall when he tries to call the police.  You can see that the phone is just a prop as there is no phone jack or brackets holding it in, just one nail sticking out of the wall.
  
  Mistake #3
  There is a scene where John Leguizamo's character is holding a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes in a box. On the side of the box you see Marlboro Miles. The film is based in the 70's and Marlboro Miles weren't introduced until many years later.
  
  Mistake #4
  The film is set in 1977.  There is a scene where the radio is playing 1010 WINS and the announcer comes on and says "1010 WINS, you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world!" When 1010 WINS first started, they used to say, "You give us 10 minutes, we'll give you the world!"  They didn't start saying 22 minutes until the 80's.

   

   Exhibitionist - Jeff Mills   (costly.)

  (because i paid for some'ting like dis, it has led me to purchase  something like ....."The Other Side Los Angeles w/Madlib and Peanut Butter Wolf"
  

  • "Largely eschewing the boring beat-matching and segues of most techno and house jocks, Mills tears through 4/4 rhythms like a hip-hop scratch DJ, rarely playing any record for longer than two minutes before he rips it from the deck, hurls it over his shoulder and slams another beat in perfectly in time. It’s his spontaneity and intuition that sets him apart from most overpaid record changers, yet Mills has now tried to capture that spur-of-the-moment feel on his new Exhibitionist DVD."
    

   
  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Dracula 2000 -- (u know i hated this movie but fun to watch--it lacks in innovative filmmaking, it gains in giggle fun-- an "old-school" vampire movie.)
  

  • A gang of high-tech thieves, led by Marcus (Omar Epps) and Solina (Jennifer Esposito), break into a vault buried deep in the heart of London hoping to find treasure. Instead, they succeed in reviving an ancient evil--the legendary Count Dracula himself (Gerard Butler), who terrorized England a century earlier until he was stopped by Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Now, Dracula makes his way to modern New Orleans to track down Mary Heller (Justine Waddell), an innocent young woman haunted by dreams she doesn't understand. Matthew Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer), Dracula's current keeper, must track the Count down with the help of his assistant, Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), but they also have to deal with the vampire's new victims, who soon return from the dead, thirsty for blood. Can Dracula be stopped before he seduces Mary and begins a new reign of terror, or do secrets from his past hold the key to destroying him forever? DRACULA 2000 is an energetic vampire story featuring intense fight sequences and a unique re-imagining of the Dracula legend.

    Well, that's about as black as my collection gets with home;  I guess i see what the brother was trying to tell me..oh, i forgot my most black film..

    The Spook Who Sat by the Door -- (i play this for the young bloods, to show the possibilities..true black cinema)
    

    • Based on Sam Greenlee's controversial novel, THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR is a hard-hitting shocker that depicts a world in which the long-suppressed black man fights back with a vengeance. Director Ivan Dixon's uncompromising adaptation was relegated to bottom-rung status upon its release, and it subsequently slipped into oblivion for decades until the film was rediscovered and released on DVD in 2004. Lawrence Cook plays Dan Freeman, a head-nodding, smiling African-American who impresses his CIA cohorts with his winning demeanor. What they don't realize is that Freeman's friendly façade is nothing more than a mask for a deep seated hatred of white people. When he returns to his Chicago hometown, Freeman uses his newly acquired knowledge to organize an underground militant movement that revolts against the very army that trained him.
      Dixon's matter-of-fact approach to the material makes the film an even more powerful experience. It also manages to transcend the Blaxploitation genre by making a broader statement about the devastating effects of death and war. Featuring an impassioned performance from Cook -- a frightening, but important, cautionary tale. the film was lost for many decades before being rediscovered and released on DVD by Monarch Home Video.
      The film was mostly shot on location in Gary, Indiana, after Chicago authorities banned the controversial production from the city. But the crew managed to slip in and film some exterior scenes without permits.
      It is believed by many that the FBI was responsible for making the film disappear so quickly after its initial release.

       

       

       

      ya, know, i'll have to cover magazines and books a little later as that will be a fairly lenghty project..since the boi is quite literate..and i love magazines, abet too cheap to afford to many subscribtions.

       

      but let me at least tell you what other titles i have in my DVD collection; since  i want to be clear that I'm willing to look at stuff that don't have shit to do with black folks, or black queers..o.k.,

      Spy Games; The Machinst (weird); Blood Work (not bad); Simone (i really dig this film); Sky Captain (another cool film); Hell Boy (i dig this one too..); Clockstopers (really, really, really lame); I heart huckabes (cool); A lot like love (waste of money); Pink Floyd-The Wall, (i've never finished watching)