Category: United States
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A NICE INDIAN BOY – 2025 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “The easiest thing to believe in, is loved.” – ‘Quote from A Nice Indian Boy What an enchanting and funny movie this is! In addition to being so relatable to everyone even though it is centered around an Indian family. The issues that arise may seem unique to the Indian culture but…
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THE HISTORY OF SOUND – 2025 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “What happens to it all? All the sounds released into the world never captured?” – ‘Quote from The History Of Sound The movie feels strangely different; like it ought to be true. It has such an authenticity about it that makes you feel you were watching actual events. You are not, of…
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AICHAKU – 2025 – United States/Japan
BLISS RATING: ★★★ “…That someday it is going to love you back. So why didn’t it love me back?” – Quote from Aichaku The title of this movie is aptly named. Aichaku literally means in Japanese ‘attachment’. But an attachment to an object that is more like a feeling of affinity – what the object…
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CONCLAVE – 2024 – United States/United Kingdom
BLISS RATING: ★★★★ “No sane man would want the papacy.” – Quote from Conclave No, this movie is NOT a BL nor is it a bromance, unless you consider a bunch of men parading around in bright red robes acting like prima donnas a bromance. This movie, fictional of course, is shocking in its outcome…
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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES – 2024 – United States/United Kingdom
BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.” – m.lovethispic.com This is a cacophony of magic, mysticism, occultism, pure imagination, and comedic adroitness. And I loved it! No, I adored it. I have not had so much fun watching a fictional comic-book-like series come to life…
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STAY – 2023 – Philippines/United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.” – Flavia Weedn This I would not call a ‘BL’. Perhaps it should be labeled more of an elegy about a deep personal connection. It is a…
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BROS – 2022 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★ “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” – Yves Saint-Laurent Where to begin with this inane self-centered movie. It is classified as a comedy and it does have its moments but overall, this is an intellectual exercise in New York City snobbery. If after watching this self-serving exercise in silliness, one might be…
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FRONT COVER – 2015 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “You have to plow in order to harvest. You have to give up something in order to achieve your dreams.” – Quote from FRONT COVER Touted as a drama romance, it certainly lives up to its name. But it is way more than that. It was a surprisingly moving and poignant movie and…
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THREE MONTHS – 2022 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “I just wanna live in this moment forever ’cause I’m afraid that living couldn’t get any better…” – Lyrics from Angel Baby by Troye Sivan This is a coming-of-age movie. Classified as a romcom, it seemed more like a journey through painful adolescent ill fortunes. While funny at times, it has a…
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LOVE, VICTOR 3 – 2022 – United States
BLISS RATING: ★★ “You embrace the scary. Because a lot of the time the scariest things are the most important.” – Quote from Love, Victor 3 This is the third and hopefully last in what is a trilogy about the trials and tribulations of a gay kid coming out to his family and friends. The…