Skin Flick

This latest offering from gay-sleaze auteur Bruce LaBruce isn't exactly hardcore porn — the sex is mostly simulated and not at all sexy — nor is it artistic enough to be called an art film. And, sad to say, it isn't another hilarious combination of the two, in the grand tradition of LaBruce's SUPER 8 1/2 and HUSTLER WHITE. It's just an excessive and uninspired exercise in fetishism that could only appeal to those who share the director's own predilection for racist boys in bleached Levis, Doc Martens and braces. The "action" centers around a group of London skinheads, most of whom appear to be gay, their homophobic claims to the contrary notwithstanding. ...