This weekend is gay gay gay what with Brüno opening wide (finally -- doesn't it seem like that should've opened for the holiday weekend? Or earlier? Too much hype) and the most interesting limited release being Humpday starring Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project) and Mark Duplass (Hannah Takes The Stairs) as straight best friends who decide to get it on (together) for the camera.Here's my Towleroad article on this weekend's movies. Comment there if you feel so moved.
So as not to bog down that article in festival minutiae, I neglected to mention that Duplass, the lead actor who has been making a name for himself headlining these micro indries was also in a tiny film I saw at Nashville called True Adolescents (see previous post) That film was also about a straight guy dealing with identity crises and gay stuff. What an odd twofer. Duplass is talented but that's a tiny niche he's developing there. MTV has a little piece on Leonard, who jokes
I started researching porn on the Internet about ten, twelve years ago, because I knew I would use it for somethingHe feels they lucked out with the timing on Humpday since it's emerging while there is lots of discussion about bromance, gender roles and gay/straight friendships. Has anyone here read that weirdly stereotypical gay/straight New York Times piece that was about... wait for it... stereotypes coming down?
