Leaving Metropolis (2002)

David (Troy Ruptash) is a successful painter who has lost his inspiration. To find stimulation he takes a job as a waiter. His friend and roommate Shannon (Thom Allison), a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, stumbles across the Main St. Diner, owned by hunky Matt (Vince Corazza) and Violet (Lynda Boyd), who are looking for a waiter. David gets hired and quickly becomes close with the couple, although they don't know of his career in the art community and are surprised to learn that he's gay. David's friend Kryla (Cherilee Taylor), a columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune is an aging, bitter, fag-hag journalist. She tracks David down at the diner against his wishes. David demands that she write up the diner in her column, which she does, and the diner's business picks up considerably.

Shannon, whose sex reassignment surgery has been repeatedly delayed because of her HIV-positive status, becomes ill. David has a painting installed and Kryla gets his photo in the paper. Matt and Violet see the photo and realize that he's famous. David and Matt start hanging out. Matt, who had tried his hand at drawing comic books, pesters David to show him his paintings but David resists. Matt confesses that he had once fallen in love with another man in college although he hadn't acted on it. David, finding himself drawn to Matt, paints him nude, although Matt doesn't pose. He tells Matt that there's a painting he needs to see. Matt comes to David's place and sees the painting. He becomes aroused and the two begin an affair. Sparks fly, but the portraits he paints of Matt may break the couple apart.

David paints two more portraits of Matt, who still doesn't actually pose. Kryla and Shannon hail them as his best work and ask him to exhibit them, but Matt is nervous about how Violet would react and makes him promise not to. They love each other, but keep the relationship secret because of the disapproval Kryla expresses to David at the idea of him sleeping with a married man.

Kryla discovers the affair when she walks in on David and Matt having sex. Matt tells David that he lied about loving him and escapes. In the aftermath of the affair, Shannon convinces David to break his promise and exhibit the paintings. He does so under the title "Straightman". When Matt learns of the show he confronts David, first threatening to destroy the paintings and then offering himself again sexually. David contemptuously dismisses him. Matt tells Violet about the paintings and about the affair and admits that he is in love with David. She demands a divorce.

Shannon has grown progressively more ill, and decides to take her life. As she dies, David runs into Kryla at a bar and they have a bitter fight. Violet attends the opening but merely tells David that the paintings are very good. As she leaves, Matt arrives and she refuses to give him another chance. After the opening Matt again approaches David who also rebuffs him. At the film's end, Matt has left town. David has also decided to leave, but he and Kryla reconcile.

Sex and emotions fill the screen in this film set against the backdrop of several events in the fictional life of "Superman" in the early 1990s, including his revealing his secret identity and marriage to Lois Lane and "The Death of Superman" storyline. The events in the comics parallel events in the lives of the characters. Filled with very much gay and straight sex, "Leaving Metropolis" pays as much attention to the character's minds as to their flesh. Some of the script's metaphors are a little clumsy, but the psychology is convincing. It is stereotypical in that the gay character has a roommate who is HIV-positive and a transexual, and the character he falls in love with is a straight man who is confused, but really wants to stay with the wife. However, it is a story of infatuation on both sides of the relationship and it is entertaining to watch the story unfold. Filmed in Winnipeg, Canada, the screenplay was adapted by Brad Fraser from his play "Poor Super Man". Dennis Burke composed the music, and Brad Fraser directed.

Dead Boyz Don't Scream (2006)

During a photo shoot with photographer Roz (Monique Parent) in an isolated spot, the country's top male models are turning up naked and dead during a western-themed photo shoot complete with fake guns and cowboy hats--and little else in the way of costumes. The gay hunks are brutally murdered by an unseen mysterious killer who turns the photo shoot into a bloodbath. Who would want to murder these perfect, muscular pretty boys? They may be a little self-involved and clueless, but that's no reason to take an axe to them! Fearless lesbian talent agent Tess Oster (Victoria Redstall) and her forest ranger girlfriend, Belle Van Dyke (Gina Marie Gian), must stop the slaughter before there are no models left to shoot. As they are picked off one by one, Oster and Van Dyke investigate.

In this homoerotic slasher movie, a deliberately silly and campy script provides plenty of laughs to go along with the deliciously naked men. From the producers of "Leather Jacket Love Story" and "Sharpshooter" soft-core erotic films, "Dead Boyz Don't Scream" has some of the hottest flesh in gay films. It's a raucous thrill ride through the dark side of male modeling filled with gratuitous nudity, politically incorrect violence, and lesbians with guns. The movie stars men’s magazine models Christian Mousel (Christian), Zack Vazquez (Anthony), and Reid Hutchins (Joey), and scream queen Monique Parent ("Mirror Mirror III") as Roz in the story of a photo shoot that turns into a bloodbath when a mysterious killer comes calling. The lesbians are basically the heroes, but the focus is on the top male models from the pages of "Playgirl" and "Men's Workout".

The unrated DVD presents the movie, which has played numerous festivals across the U.S. and overseas, in widescreen with the following extras: Producer’s audio commentary, behind-the-scenes material, cast interviews, bonus footage from the “hot” scenes, and trailers. In what could have been titled "So Many Dicks, so Little Script", a gaggle of male models shamelessly parade their jewels in a manner that is soon tiresome and sexless. Like the majority of male strippers everywhere, most are straight and toned--not queer and tempting. Once the murders begin, lesbians come to the rescue. Bill Newlin composed the original music, there is no screenwriter credit, and Marc Saltarelli directed.