Sapphira Cristál's impressive run on RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 saw her make it all the way to Friday night's grand finale and a final lip-sync battle for the crown to Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam" against Nymphia Wind. While Nymphia was ultimately named America's Next Drag Superstar by eight-time Emmy-winning host RuPaul, Sapphira Cristál was... Continue Reading →
Plane Jane soared her way to the grand finale of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16, which aired on MTV on Friday night, as one of the top three queens in the competition alongside Nymphia Wind and Sapphira Cristál. At MTV's official Drag Race viewing party at The Edge in New York, Plane Jane spoke exclusively... Continue Reading →
America’s Next Drag Superstar is...Nymphia Wind. Having made it to the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16—which aired on MTV on Friday night—alongside Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál, Nymphia eventually battled it out for the crown in a lip-sync with Sapphira to Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam". During the lip-sync, Nymphia wowed viewers with... Continue Reading →
Following the short film My Trip to Spain, Theda Hammel and John Early continue their creative collaboration with the deliciously dark and hilarious 2020-set comedy feature Stress Positions, which world premiered at Sundance and was the closing night selection of MOMA's New Directors/New Films festival. As well as writing and directing, Hammel also serves as... Continue Reading →
Tired of watching the world circling the drain? Would you like to smile for 108 minutes? Then trust me, drop everything and watch Hundreds Of Beavers now! This low-budget indie instant classic marks the feature directorial debut of Mike Cheslik who spent four years making it, including over 1500 effects shots in freezing temperatures in... Continue Reading →
Stop the press! Who is that? It's filmmaker Vera Drew whose feature directorial debut, The People's Joker—which she also co-wrote (with Bri LeRose), edited, and stars in—is now playing in theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and rolling out to select theaters across the United States and Canada. Following its world premiere screening in the... Continue Reading →
Films and movies often operate on different planes of existence. Some films feel like homework. Some take you to distant lands and shine a light on different cultures. Some intimately expose the human condition. But movies? Well, my favorite kind of movies thrive on pure adrenaline, action and sexual excitement. Who doesn’t love looking at... Continue Reading →
Along with delivering deliciously dark humour, gore, mayhem, and a reliably high body count, the terrifically entertaining Chucky the series—now in its third season on USA and SYFY—has been warming the hearts of horror fans with a tender queer romance at the heart of show. Zackary Arthur stars as Jake and Björgvin Arnarson stars as... Continue Reading →
Wait till you get a load of this... After making its world premiere back in September 2022 in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival, Vera Drew's thrillingly irreverent trans comic book coming-of-age movie The People's Joker finally gets a North American theatrical release from Altered Innocence beginning Friday, April 5th in... Continue Reading →
Theda Hammel returns to Sundance following her 2022 TV pilot My Trip To Spain, with her feature debut as writer-director-composer-editor and star, Stress Positions, playing in the festival's US Dramatic Competition. With its dry, sometimes uncomfortable tone, that easily shifts from offbeat to satirical to absurd to farcical, this deliciously dark, thought-provoking comedy sees her... Continue Reading →
Daishi Matsunaga's fourth dramatic feature, Egoist—which world premiered at the Toyko International Film Festival and makes its Australian debut at Queer Screen's 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival—takes a successful gay man in his 30s and leads him to unexpected places as he looks for, pays for, and eventually discovers the love he needs. Saitô Kôsuke... Continue Reading →
Named one of Variety's 10 Directors to Watch in 2022, Goran Stolevski, who grew up in Macedonia and Australia, follows up last year's stunning Melbourne-set queer romance, Of An Age, with his latest emotionally potent feature as writer, director, and editor, Housekeeping for Beginners (Domakinstvo za Pocetnici). Winning both the Queer Lion at Venice and... Continue Reading →
