Category: Comedy

‘Phantom Project’ is a playful and quirky supernatural rom-com from Chile

Phantom Project stars Juan Cano as Pablo, a young actor who dreams of landing a role in a film.

In order to pay the bills, he works as a simulated patient in medical schools and strange alternative therapy sessions. It’s not just his career that has hit a snag. His romantic and social lives are also in trouble.

He’s still in love with his successful ex-boyfriend and his roommate has disappeared without paying rent, leaving behind several problems… including a ghost who is now haunting his living space.

With nowhere to go but up, Pablo becomes more determined than ever to fix his situation and finally turn his dreams into a reality.

From writer-director Roberto Doveris, Phantom Project is a delightfully off-beat supernatural gay comedy with humor and heart to spare.

Watch the trailer for Phantom Project below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.

Anthony Rapp and Jonathan Bennett star as husbands to be in the charming wedding comedy ‘Do You Take This Man’

Daniel and Christopher (Anthony Rapp and Jonathan Bennett) are very different – in their interests, their choice of friends and the ways in which they handle life’s stresses.

Despite all that, the two men are very much in love. They’re getting married tomorrow… or, at least, that’s the plan.

Triggered by the unexpected arrival of a long-lost childhood friend of Christopher’s, the grooms-to-be confront their differences, and lean on their friends and family to get through a day filled with surprises, stresses and uncertainties about their future together.

A crowd-pleasing hit on the LGBTQ+ film festival circuit when it premiered back in 2016, Do You Take This Man features a terrific supporting cast – including Thomas Dekker, Mackenzie Astin, Marla Sokoloff, Lee Garlington and “How I Met Your Mother” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Alyson Hannigan – and offers up a realistic and absorbing look into what it takes to make a marriage work in this day and age.

Watch the trailer for Do You Take This Man below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.

‘Drag Race’ alum Maxi Shield stars in the wild crime comedy “The Winner Takes It All”

Featuring Sydney drag icon and “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Down Under” alum Maxi Shield, The Winner Takes It All is a farcical queer comedy that pays loving homage to the early works of John Waters.

Jessica Marchi stars in the film as Kiki, a wealthy socialite who confides in her best friend Maxine that her husband is cheating on her. In danger of losing her rather large fortune, Kiki elicits Maxi’s help to uncover the truth about her husband’s adultery.

The pair soon learn, however, that not all is as it seems. Throw in a gigolo, a porn star and non-stop lashings of camp and you are in for one of the funniest and most joyously, knowingly and proudly stupid rides of your life.

From first-time director James Demitri, this transgressive new comedy has all the makings of a campy LGBTQ+ classic.

Watch the trailer for The Winner Takes It All below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Multiple characters intersect in the new eight-part British anthology series ‘Patterns’

There’s something for everyone in Patterns, an exciting new British anthology series.

Like a cross between Sex Education and Black Mirror, each episode of Patterns tells a full self-contained story, but they all take place in the same universe. A minor character in one episode may reappear as the lead in another and vice-versa. It’s an ambitious format, playfully executed by director Rex Glensy and writers Daniel Mannheim and Asad Moghal.

Stories include Reverse Catfish, about a hot young rugby player who finds that people only date him for his good looks and sets about trying to change their perception. SuperBen follows an imaginative boy who gets up close and personal with his superhero crush. Delivered is about a hungry young man on an oppressive diet who becomes unusually obsessed with his pizza delivery guy. And there are many more episodes where those came from.

Catch up on all the action in this charming and refreshingly sex-positive new comedy series. The full first season of Patterns is available now on Dekkoo and a second season is currently in the works! Watch the trailer below.

Todd Flaherty wrote, directed and stars in the sharp-edged indie comedy ‘Chrissy Judy’

Reminiscent of the freewheeling spirit of Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha, the witty new indie comedy Chrissy Judy peels back the layers of the East Coast’s queer triumvirate – New York City, Fire Island, and Provincetown – and examines the realities gay men face in their pursuit of love and acceptance.

Wyatt Fenner and writer-director Todd Flaherty star as Chrissy and Judy, respectively. Besties by day and cabaret drag partners by night, the two longtime pals find themselves at a crossroads when one of them couples off and moves away from New York.

As the duo drifts apart, the remaining queen must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off.

Flaherty’s previous film, the gorgeously-directed short relationship drama Let’s Meet Again at the End of the World (also available now on Dekkoo), marked him as a writer, director and actor to watch.

Brilliantly written and beautifully shot in crisp black and white, Chrissy Judy delivers on that early promise, exploring the pain of breaking up with a best friend and asking the difficult question, “What do you do when your chosen family no longer chooses you?”

Watch the trailer for Chrissy Judy below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.

Now Available: Sublime

How do you avoid losing something precious when it’s the very thing tearing you up inside?

Whether he’s writing music with his garage band buddies, having dinner with his family or sneaking off into the woods with his girlfriend, 16-year-old Manu (Martín Miller) is never quite present. He’s consumed by a secret that’s been eating him up inside.

In his dreams, Manu and his best friend Felipe (Teo Inama Chiabrando) lie in bed together, staring longingly into one another’s eyes while inching closer and closer together. Though they never kiss, the desire is clear. That desire simmers beneath the surface of writer-director Mariano Biasin’s moving new coming-of-age drama Sublime.

Featuring beautiful cinematography, an exceptional soundtrack and palpable chemistry between lead actors Miller and Inama Chiabrando, this award-winning new film follows one teen whose affection for his best friend can only stay suppressed for so long.

Watch the trailer for Sublime below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.