Starring: Jon Paul Phillips, Thure Riefenstein, Greg Audino, Deosick Burney, John-Michael Carlton
Director: George Bamber
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: August 7th 2017 (UK), August 8th 2017 (US)

Is this a knockabout romantic comedy or a soulful, sexual drama? The reason I ask is because if you looked at the cover of the US DVD release, you’d probably expect the former, while the UK version goes for the latter. It’s not too often you see covers that look like they’re for such completely different movies.

The truth is that Kept Boy is somewhere in the middle between comedy and melodrama, as while it certainly has the structure and feel of a rom com, it’s also interested in the more dramatic possibilities of its storyline. [Read more…]