Unless you've been living in a BDSM dungeon for the past few months (no judgements here), you will no doubt have seen dreamboat daddy Alexander Skarsgård dominating red carpets around the globe with leather and fetish flourishes ("kinky in the front, kinkier in the back", is how Vogue described his BFI London ensemble) since his... Continue Reading →
Brydie O'Connor's tenderly-crated feature debut Barbara Forever, world premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, is as sensual, intimate and uninhibited as much of the work of its prolific subject, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Immediately drawing us into Hammer's world, where the personal and artistic are interwoven, we hear... Continue Reading →
Following its world premiere at Cannes, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's startlingly original and delectably queer debut feature A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka) made its North American premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be... Continue Reading →
Queer filmmaker, film historian, archivist, and writer Jenni Olson's acclaimed documentary short film, 575 Castro. St., which originally world premiered at Sundance in 2009 and received its international premiere at the Berlinale that same year, is being revisited and celebrated by both festivals with retrospective screenings. Olson’s film is a contemplative yet urgent meditation on... Continue Reading →
Watching the promotional campaign for Harry Lighton's debut feature Pillion play out, since its award-winning world premiere at Cannes last year and its UK opening in late November, has—appropriately enough—felt like an extended edging session. Thankfully, the climax was worth all the teasing and anticipation that came with the perfectly orchestrated slow drip of tantalizing... Continue Reading →
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show directed by Sam Pinkleton, a Tony-winner for his work on Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! Roundabout Theatre Company announces the cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway directed by Sam Pinkleton. Joining the previously announced British Independent Film... Continue Reading →
When Larry Kramer first staged his furious play, The Normal Heart, in 1985 at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York, it was an uncompromising demand for action. It is now revered as a seminal piece of activist theater. As queer communities in many parts of the world face a rollback of rights... Continue Reading →
Catherine O’Hara was more than an actor to many: she was a "TV Mom". Particularly to the queer community. On more than one occasion, she played a character that made it clear we were welcome and loved. Whether that was through campiness in her own performance or through the characters she played who embraced their... Continue Reading →
It’s funny how the catchphrase “Stop the insanity!” means something so different now than when anyone of age in the 90s first heard it. Now it feels like my mantra in response to the horror show of the daily news cycle, whereas during the grunge/dot-com decade, the phrase only referred to a ubiquitous infomercial exercise... Continue Reading →
There’s something inherently destabilizing about a room full of naked men. Trust me, I know—as a trans man who frequents a clothing-forbidden Korean spa (for the spa water, not the schlongs)—a room of naked men is enough to disrupt the monolithic idea of what it is to be a man. Not because of sex, exactly,... Continue Reading →
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday, January 22nd, will mark its final edition in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, ahead of the festival's move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Running in person through February 1st, select titles will also be available nationwide online from January 29th. This year's festival is the first... Continue Reading →
