Dante's Cove: The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of Dante's Cove: The Complete First Season
Movie Review: wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. nothing more to say. greg michael is a top actor.Movie Review: great
Summary: 5 Stars
the movie was in the shape that they said it was going to be inMovie Review: Badly acted etc. but also quite unique and strangely compelling!
Summary: 4 Stars
In 1840 the small seaside town of Dante's Cove was awash in strange goings on. Grace Neville (Traci Scoggins) is about to be married to a young Ambrosius (William Gregory Lee). Although she's getting on in years, Grace is now sure she's finally met the man that she wants to settle down with. Is Ambrosius, however, really all that he appears or does he just want Grace for her money?
One afternoon, after visiting him, Grace realizes that she's forgotten her gloves, so she returns to his house only to find her suitor caught up in a hot and passionate session with his hunky and studly young butler. Shocked, she screams at them both, calling them deviant and disgusting vowing to make them both pay for their betrayal.
For Grace, it's immediately hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Furious and determined to seek revenge, she uses her supernatural and mystical powers to instantly burn her fiancé's boy toy with her very eyes - you actually see him frothing at the mouth - and then entombs her beau in an SM/dungeon beneath the Hotel Dante, placing an eternal curse on him.
Ambrosius is destined to spend perpetuity, shackled to chains. The only way the curse can be broken is if some virile male kisses him and breaks the spell. Meanwhile, in the present day, the young Toby (Charlie David) is living at Dante Cove when he invites his gorgeous lover Kevin (Gregory Michael) to spend some time with him.
Kevin and Toby are having problems. Although it looks as though they're having great sex, it seems Kevin's a bit of a closet case and is having trouble coming out to his homophobic parents, who have cottoned on the fact that Kevin is having an affair with Toby. After some domestic abuse, Kevin escapes to Dante's Cove, a little Key West-style hamlet featuring an inn of the same name where Toby bartends.
Within minutes of arriving, Kevin meets the eclectic cast of sexy characters, there's Van, a gothic lesbian, Amber a lesbian party girl, and totally gay muscle stud Adam, the resident boy toy. But it is the ghost of Ambrosius that Kevin begins to hear as Toby's hunky presence begins to release a menacing force from the hotel's past. Grace, ageless and still very beautiful, has survived, and is obsessed with getting together with her former paramour.
As the evil begins to spread in the form of a rejuvenated grace, Kevin and Adam and the rest of the sexy inhabitants of Dante's Cove find themselves literally fighting for their lives. The story in Dante's Cove is really just an excuse to tie together various scenes of what I call soft-core gay and lesbian "boutique" sex. Kevin and Toby spend most of their time engaged man-on-man action, which is mostly, made up of hazy images of flesh seen through the haze of steam and tastefully situated candles.
Dante's Cove gravitates between the jaw-dropping awful and ludicrous guilty fun. There have been a lot of B-grade actresses over the past few years that seem to be making a career out of appearing in low budget gay material - Jill St. John, Jacqueline Bisset, and Morgan Fairchild, but now Traci Scoggins can add herself to the list. Although she's by far the best actor in this series, her performance still vacillates between mostly watch-able to appallingly trite and melodramatic.
Most of the male cast don't fair much better, babbling their lines until the next nude scenes which aren't really that sexy or even that titillating. Although done on the cheap, the series looks mostly well made - perhaps with a bit more money they could get a better scriptwriter and employ better visual effects. The cast is very attractive of course both in the nude and fully clothed. In the end, this is trashy television at it's best, truly awful but also quite compelling, Mike Leonard October 06.
Movie Review: A Definite Guilty Pleasure
Summary: 4 Stars
Dante's Cove is definitely a guilty pleasure - one that you would not admit that you watch but you do. Like other people are saying, it is a mix of Melrose Place (stealing of boyfriend, the manipulation, revenge and of course, the sex)meets Dark Shadow (witches, cults, curses) meets Queer as Folk (the two lead characters are gay, with lesbians, bisexuals and, of course, straight).
There are positive things about Dante's Cove as well as negative. The storyline for me is good - very unique as I might say - Grace and Ambrosius are lovers getting married until Grace saw Ambrosius having sex with a man. Scorned, she prisoned Ambrosius and cursed him until a kiss of a man will set him free (sounds like Charmed too me). Two hundred years later, lovers Kevin and Toby try to make their relationship work. Toby moved to Dante's Cove, with Kevin following him later. Things are turning great until Kevin hears voices coming from the basement of Hotel Dante - only to find Ambrosius still chained and old. After Kevin freed Ambrosius from his prison (turning him young again), Ambrosius wants Kevin to be his. Not only the plot is about the relationship of Toby and Kevin, but everything around them - supernatural things happening around the Hotel and they got stuck in the middle.
The negative about Dante's Cove is the script and acting. The script on the first part, I find, good but not that good. The second part redeemed it. The acting for me is good, not the best but good. Some over act too much, some do it just fine.
The sex scenes in Dante's Cove is very hot, very steamy, and explicit. And I think it is way better than the sex scenes in Queer as Folk. In the first part alone, we have 6 sex scenes - my favorite being Toby and Kevin at Hotel Dante.
So, over-all, I will give the show 4 stars. If you are into campy, trashy, over-the-top show. This is for you.
Movie Review: Serious Attempts taken seriously
Summary: 4 Stars
I hope this will help some of you out. This series is decent. Not the best, but definately decent. Season one comes in slow showing how Kevin (Gregory Michael) leaves home in Laguna Beach to join his summer lover Toby (Charlie David) in Dante's Cove. Events begin to unfold around the new couple as the secrets of the Hotel Dante are uncovered one at a time. Enter Van (Nadine Heimann), the ever knowledgable lesbian and best friend to Toby. Between the three of them, they set to uncover an ancient and resurrected fued between witch Grace Neville (Tracy Scoggins) and warlock Abrosius Valin (William Gregory Lee). In a nutshell, these are your main characters and the basic concept of the plot in DANTE'S COVE.
Outside of the plot, the cinematography is decent. Better than some other shows that have been produced by HERE! TV. The character development has been good, but it is slow. It takes some time to really get to know the characters. As far as the acting goes, there are definately some pitfalls that can easily be overcome with practice. Noticing some block acting in the recorded sessions.
Overall, a good show to get into if you wish to pass your time. I do recommend this show for people to watch if you just want to have a good time on the couch watching a movie alone or with someone. Take some time to get comfortable and watch this one.