Todd Verow – MRQE

Amen (2011/III)

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

You Can’t Stay Here

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.

Anonymous (2004/I)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.

The Final Girl

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.

The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John (Tim Swain) agrees to be Italian horror actress and singer Solange’s (Mahogany Reynolds) assistant, and he’s thrilled to be swept into her glamorous, arty European world. But when the sex and drug lifestyle gives way to murder, John begins to question Solange’s motives. Based on the novel by James Derek Dwyer and filmed on location in Europe, this offbeat comedy pays homage to the cinema of the 1980s and features a hip soundtrack.

Between Something & Nothing

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is based on filmmaker Todd Verows experiences at Rhode Island School of Design. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town JOE and townie mastermind JENNIFER quickly join forces. They are determined to succeed on a campus over-populated with jaded mega-rich kids awash in trust funds, abortions and drugs galore.

Hooks to the Left

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow’s experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male prostitution. Nail’s narrated journal entries accompany dreamy and abstract imagery shot all over the world. Verow also explores how the Internet has shaped the sex trade.

Vacationland

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film’s main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe, an 18 year old high school senior who longs to move away from poor white trash roots and this town, and dreams of attending art school, lives with his single mother and older sister Theresa on a notorious council estate called “Capehart Projects”. Molested at the age of ten, Joe nevertheless decides to keep the incident to himself. He befriends an elderly disabled artist named Victor who hires him as houseboy/model. Joe moves in with Victor in his loft above the local opera house, hoping to escape Bangor with his help. He also works part time at a local market along with his sister, who wants to get out of town as much as he does. For most of high school, Joe has also had a crush on his best friend, Andrew, who plays on the high school football team.

Bulldog in the White House

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Bulldog in the Whitehouse” takes political satire to obscene new heights: portraying the Bush administration as a cabal of lustful and traitorous gay men who are too busy having sex to notice the empire crumbling down around them. An explosive and darkly comic adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ novel Dangerous Liaisons, the film’s web of sex and deceit centers on Bulldog, a hustler who seduces his way into the Washington press corps to gain access to the halls of the political elite. At the bidding of his puppet master, a corpulent and power mad Karl Rove, Bulldog engages in manipulative trysts with Whitehouse hotties like the demure press secretary, the religious leader and the confused, imbecilic good ol’ boy president himself.

Once and Future Queen

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This film follows the life of a mentally ill street itinerant whose name is not worthy of mention. When not sleeping in the gutters of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, our protagonist keeps busy juggling her schedule of drug abuse, trips to her shrink, and stealing from those misguided souls who, after taking pity on her, allow her temporary shelter in their homes.