Global Warming 2

By: Robert O'Neill
In-House Review - Sep 24 2014

We're thrilled to present Global Warming 2, a collection of two acclaimed, award-winning short films from skilled director Reid Waterer - available exclusively through TLAgay.com! Sexy, funny and ultimately uplifting, You Can't Curry Love and Performance Anxiery, the two shorts on the original Global Warming, were such a major hits with our customers that Reid couldn't wait to put a new volume together. This new pair does not disappoint!

In Foreign Relations, cute, sweet-natured Tom (Kevin Grant Spencer) is recovering from a recent break up. Having long suppressed a desire to travel while with his boyfriend, Tom heads off on a 7-day tour of Greece and Croatia to distract himself from heartbreak. Though he plans to take the trip solo, circumstances him to buddy up with Nikos (Anthem Moss), a cocksure stud from Athens who exudes so much sexuality that it's not exactly clear if he's straight, gay or bi. to spend time with half-naked Nikos in close quarters, Tom's libido goes into hyperdrive. He's going to need some serious release before the week is through. With a little luck, Nikos will be willing to help him out.

Brand new, Foreign Relations has been sizzling on theater screens at LGBT films festivals throughout 2014, but you can watch it in the comfort of your own home. The cast is positively stunning. In addition to Kevin Grant Spencer and Anthem Moss, who create palpable romantic and sexual tension, Danny Lopes (who you can also see in the Global Warming short Performance Anxiety), Adam Huss (the studly comic relief of Is it Just Me? who pulls double duty in both of the shorts on this DVD) and Orel De La Mota (who plays the tour guide - and doesn't seem shy in a speedo) provide all the drool-worthy eye candy you could possibly need. This is one hilarious, heartwarming and unabashedly arousing short.

The second entry is one of Reid's older titles. Originally made in 2009, Daddy's Big Girl is coming to DVD for the first time. The film follows Millie (Rakefet Abergel) a plus-sized young cynic who finds herself in crisis after she loses her job. She turns to her gay, movie producer father, Cliff (co-screenwriter Christopher Bradley), for help, but finds none. Super cold and seemingly unfeeling, Cliff thinks that the best way to get his daughter to develop self-esteem and lose some weight is through tough love. Plus, he's way too distracted by his gorgeous "personal trainer" (Adam Huss again) to pay his daughter the attention she needs. During a heated encounter with a beefy, straight stripper, Cliff starts to remember his distant family-man past and has a change of heart. He soon realizes that the best way to connect with Millie is to love her exactly the way she is. If he starts doing that, maybe she'll have an easier time loving herself.

Foreign Relations is 25 minutes long while Daddy's Big Girl is 17 minutes. Together, they run a total of 42 minutes, but Reid packed this DVD with tons of exciting, completely exclusive special features that are almost as engaging and entertaining as the movies themselves! There are two "Making of" featurettes, a special short doc about being out of the closet in Hollywood, extended scenes, deleted scenes, bloopers and (our personal favorite) a featurette called Acting Half-Naked which has the hot cast talking about what it's like to shed their clothes in front of the camera.

By: Joseph Baneth Allen

Just finished watching "Global Warming Volume 2" released by TLA Releasing.
"Global Warming Volume 2" consists of two separate short movies both of which made the rounds of various national and international film festivals in the past few years.
First up is "Daddy's Big Girl" staring the brilliantly talented Rakefet Abergel and equally talented Christopher Bradley as a daughter and father who must not only come to terms with their failed expectations of each other; but somehow must reconnect by being honest not only with each other, but themselves as well.
The second short movie on this DVD anthology is "Foreign Relations" where Tom is at the crossroads. A rather likable guy who has just been dumped by his boyfriend, Tom takes a Mediterranean cruise and finds himself roommates with a soon-to-be-divorced straight Greek man - or is he? Tom also has to deal with the attentions of the tour director as well. Which chance will Tom take? The fun in watching is finding out.

By: barry

Guys get part 2 now ! You getting one for free. Thats a deal. I loveed part 1 so much i was sad it end. When i saw pt 2 was coming i jumped at the chance to get it, seeing the preview shows the 2nb is just as good. I say why not make the stories long form. Hint; bradley/waterer. You guys work wee together. Now ! Everybody go out ang buy there stuff lets give them some encouagement.

By: Amos Lassen

Reid Waterer ("You Can't Curry Love" and "Performance Anxiety) who brought us the delightful "Global Warming" brings us two more short films in this new collection.

fIn "Foreign Relations" we meet Tom whose decided to take a Mediterranean cruise after his boyfriend walked out on him. However, in order to make the financial obligation to do so, he has to take a roommate who is randomly assigned to him. His roomie turns out to be Nikos (Anthem Moss), a Greek guy. At just about the same time, Armando, the tour guide who is leading the cruise seems to flirting with him. Tom's "dance card" suddenly fills up and as he gets to now both of the guys, he finds a charm and ambiguity in them and he has to decide whether to choose the American or the Greek.

He learns that Nikos has also just become single as well but Tom can't figure out whether he is gay or not. He is attracted to Nikos who is very shy and they become fast friends as they tour Greece and Croatia. But Armando (Orel de la Mota) is also lusting after Tom (Kevin Grant Spencer).

This is, quite simply, a fun short movie (25 minutes) that is filled with good-looking guys in Speedo bathing suits. The cinematography is quite beautiful but then so is the setting and we also see some male/male action. It is all about romance here.

"Daddy's Big Girl" is about Millie (Rakefet Abergel) who is overweight and she and her father have a strange relationship. Her dad, Cliff (Christopher Bradley), is a wealthy moviemaker and gay. Millie knows she is fat but does nothing about it and her father uses his own brand of tough love hoping that she will do something with her life. Millie finds herself in a bind with no job and no money so she does what children usually do-she goes to her father who she sees as a hedonistic man who lives for fun. We sense the tension between father and daughter and it looks like they will never agree on anything until Cliff tells Millie a story about his dead wife and her mother and this leads to each understanding the other a bit more.

Even though the film is only 17 minutes long, director Reid Waterer gives us a look at the dynamics of father/daughter and shows us that it is possible to reach an understanding. I watched with a smile on my face because this film has a certain charm that I just cannot define. I surely hope that we will be hearing more from Waterer.