CYPHER AVE RECAPS: Freefall Ep 09 – “Deceit”
Freefall is one of the 3 best web series created by and featuring black gay men (joined by Drama Queenz and No Shade). Its got the best looking cast of any gay web series. The photography is on point. The audio has improved. Also, it’s at least trying to tell atypical gay stories.
Movie Review: Pacific Rim
There shouldn’t be any secret of who the real stars are of Pacific Rim…Giant Robots and Giant Monsters.
Movie Review: Superman – Man Of Steel
{rating} I have been an avid comic book fan and reader for over 25 years. Comics helped me with my reading at a younger age. They allowed me to escape and travel beyond the stars. They gave me forward thinking visions to imagine variant earths…
View the short Father and Son film: Junior
{rating} Just in time for Father’s Day we bring you this cool little story about a masculine dedicated, hardworking father and his equally dedicated, hardworking and head strong basketball prodigy young son.Being honest, I am not really sure who wrote and directed this film. The…
The Night “Fast & Furious 6” Shot Hot Action All Up Into My Face!
{rating} It was a Holiday. Memorial Day. I was home alone. All of my friends were out of town with their significant others or visiting family. I’d already had my fair share of cookouts and dry overly cooked barbeque that afternoon. I needed some time…
Review & Full Episode of MTV’s True Life: Secrets, Lies & Sex
{rating} As I watched MTV’s True Life: Secrets, Lies & Sex (view full episode below), I had to frequently question what was real, staged or scripted.Since news and a trailer about the show have been out for a couple of weeks now, the internet (including…
New Indie Films Featuring Gay Men of Color
Frameline’s 37th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is coming this June with an interesting batch of domestic and foreign films featuring masculine gay men of color. The standout of the list is The Happy Sad, the latest film by writer/director Rodney Evans. His previous…
WEB SERIES REVIEW: Freefall (Season One)
Seeing Season One of Freefall was like getting set up on a blind date with an attractive guy’s Best Friend. You get all hyped up thinking the date will be as sexy as him, only to find out that his friend is a Lord of the Rings Ork. We expected this series would be like the director’s previous work but we were bamboozled.
Movie Review: Young Soul Rebels
Movie Review: Young Soul Rebels To sum up this movie in one word…”HORRIBLE“. Look I know we have a limited selection in the Black Gay Cinema department but it seems like I always have the same feelings, thoughts and questions after seeing a black gay…
Movie Review: Blind Faith
Blind Faith Directed By: Ernest R. Dickerson Written By: Frank Military Staring: Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance First released on the cable channel Showtime in 1998, I had never heard of Blind Faith until I came across it in the Gay/Lesbian section on Netflix. …
CYPHER AVE ESSENTIALS: Common – The Dreamer/The Believer
Continuing my recent series of posts on Hip Hop music, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak about the new album “The Dreamer/The Believer” from rapper Common that dropped today. The 12-track album is a much needed shot of masculine rawness that has been…
CYPHER AVENUE ESSENTIALS: The Messiah – A Novel by Lee Hayes
I’m an avid book reader, especially fiction. Unfortunately there are not gonna be too many novels written by gay/bisexual men of color endorsed by this website because many of them either perpetuate stereotypes, do not feature characters that we can relate with or, quite frankly,…
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