TEETH. Director Mitchell Lichtenstein told me that only a gay man could give the proper distance to the fear and fantasy of the vagina dentata myth. It's the emasculating fable of a woman who has teeth in her private parts—it's found in Native American folklore, Asian mythology and other ancient lore.

"I guess I can look at it from a distance, the fascination with that part of the female anatomy, and why men are so fascinated and frightened by it," laughed Lichtenstein over breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

With the inspiration of his professor, feminist author Camille Paglia at Bennington College, Lichtenstein—who is the son of pop artist Roy—created the story of Teeth, about a teenage girl who discovers that what's between her legs can be fatal.

He found 25-year-old actress Jess Weixler to play the role as if it were a superhero, much Spider-Man when first discovering his powers. Weixler, who won a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for her performance, said "[My character] figures out she is part of an evolutionary process, and she goes on to find herself. . . . By the end she think she's sexy and a woman who has this unique thing."

Jess Weixler in "Teeth"

Lichtenstein previously acted in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet as the gay guy posing to be the groom at a girl's wedding. He's never been in the closet about his sexuality, but can see how discriminatory the world can be. He has seen how school books in Virginia covered pictures of the female anatomy with a sticker, declaring it obscene, and that some newspapers would still refuse to print the word vagina, after upsetting some readers by publishing ads for the play "The Vagina Monologues."

"This plays to the fear of castration in guys, and it certainly will make people uncomfortable," Lichtenstein said. "Women are a subjugated group in many cultures, and repressed, and since we are living in a more puritanical time, it would seem like fun to make this myth a reality and turn the girl into a hero rather than a victim."

The Motion Picture Association of America granted the film with an R rating, rather than a more restrictive NC-17, because the director said, "They thought it would be a good cautionary tale that parents should take all their teen-aged sons to see. It's a very moralistic story; if your intentions are bad, then you face the consequences."

Lichtenstein also studied youth groups that promote sexual abstinence and how the U.S. government spends more than $100 million on such programs. He mocks the groups when Weixler's character joins The Promise.

The director also sees a connection in those who may fear a female president, such as Hillary Clinton. "I have had foreign critics look at the film and say that Americans have such a sick view on sexuality," Lichtenstein said.

Weixler added, "I don't really think people will believe that I really have this condition, and I certainly don't plan on dating anyone who would be freaked out that I did. . . . It's not a bad thing to be in a cult movie, look at Susan Sarandon in The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Johann Urb plays a handsome blond hunk who seems perfect in every way and at times seems to woo and attract both men and women.

Overall, it's a poorly acted film, with some nice eye candy for any sexuality.

FOOL'S GOLD. Hunky Matthew McConaughey isn't naked playing the bongos with his buddies, but he is practically nude for a lot of this movie about a treasure hunter who is seeking a sunken ship containing gold. He makes the key to the discovery on the day he's supposed to get a divorce from his wife, played by Kate Hudson, who's equally beautiful, but not as revealing.

A humorous gay subplot in this story is the relationship between the cooks on the expensive yacht, played by Michael Mulheren and Adam LeFevre as Eddie and Gary. The guys are big gay bears who express their love for each other quite openly and without shame.

OVER HER DEAD BODY. Desperate Housewives bad girl Gabrielle, played by the super sexy, now-hyphenated name Eva Longoria-Parker, is the star of this story about a dead fiancé who tries to keep her boyfriend from meeting another girl. As she works out her after-life duties, Longoria-Parker's character is haunting a psychic named Ashley (played by Lake Bell), and Ashley has a gay best friend named Dan (portrayed by the American Pie kid Jason Biggs).

What's interesting in his character (and this isn't too much of a spoiler because it happens rather early on), is that Dan is pretending to be gay only so he can get closer to Ashley. And, he has been pretending for five years, started a catering business with her, and enjoys the classy clothes and careful grooming he has learned all this time by living the life.

Dan says, "All men are goal oriented to sex" no matter what their orientation, and he has done things like shop and take bubble baths with his girl friend Ashley just to be close to her. Yes, there are some over-the-top stereotypes, but Biggs doesn't go overboard with his gay portrayal, and in fact goes more overboard playing it straight.