Product Description Todd Verow, his latest film is an experimental narrative feature heralding the end time. Split up into 20 short films, the film explores the fear and longing of several characters as they wait for some unspecified apocalyptic event. Some try to escape physically, emotionally or sexually while others welcome the end with open arms. A woman (PHILLY) is busy dragging her own corpse, trying to find a resting place for it, when she encounters an old lover (MICHAEL BURKE) who used to be a she but has transitioned to a man. He wants to get out of town but she wants to stay it's the end of time when nothing is a crime. Several gay men engage in more and more extreme sexual activity, they want to experience it all before the big collapse. Two gay ex-lovers try to reconnect and feel something, anything but total emptiness. Porn actors and producers make more unsafe films as fantasies grow darker and more violent. Will the world end with a whimper or a bang? Or worse will it not end at all. Review The film rattles us and yet it is also comforting in a very strange way. --Amos Lassen - Eurika Pride
S**H
Unwatchable
Apparently I'm a stick-in-the-mud, an old-fashioned sort who wants plot and/or characters in a film. "XX" strikes me as a self-indulgent film-school effort that must have been privately released by a vanity press. The soundtrack is annoying, the characters (such as they are) uniformly unlikeable, the film grainy (yes yes, I'm sure that's an "artistic effect," like leaving bits of eggshell in the omelet), any sort of "plot" missing altogether, and the whole thing largely unbearable, even on fast-forward (no, don't bother, nothing ever happens). It even manages to make sex dull, which is no small achievement. On the other hand, the filmmaker has finally pushed Richard Gere's KING DAVID out of my Number One Worst Movie Ever spot, which nobody else has achieved in the last 20 years, so I suppose that's something. I don't even know anyone to GIVE this to.
P**M
THE VERY WORST IN GAY CINEMA
Simply the worst gay film in a long time.Looks like someone's bad home movie.Annoying soundtrack and no plot of any sort.Why should anyone pay to see this film? Dont waste your time.
W**C
Todd Verow Does it again
Todd Verow has done it again.Using cutting edge techniques he has created an end of the world, sci-fi like look at life.Told in 20 short clips the film lets the viewer see what life might be like if we were all facing the Armageddon.As usual, central to his theme is how gay men will react, and he paints a very nihilistic picture of drugs, unsafe sex and utter abandon!But in the end his message comes across with some light, that maybe we can survive as a race and a culture.Not Todd's most narrative film, but due to be a classic.
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