Writer-director Elliot Tuttle's provocative feature debut Blue Film announces the filmmaker as a bold new voice in queer cinema. In the opening frames, the audience is greeted with the words, "What's up faggots", as we're thrown into the midst of a steamy livestream by adult content creator Aaron Eagle (British Boots star Kieron Moore) connecting... Continue Reading →
Ahead of the publication of Rainbow Wales: Queer Icons Past and Present, author Emily Garside shares an exclusive extract with The Queer Review along with her approach to writing the book. Some books come from an "I need the world to know my nerdy opinions" urge (at least that’s how I’ve written books in the... Continue Reading →
Following a long-running stint portraying Sylver McQueen on the BAFTA-nominated soap opera Hollyoaks, a UK television institution for more than three decades, actor David Tag makes his impressive feature debut in Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely's dark comedy drama Departures. Tag plays the strapping and aggressively handsome Jake, a thirtysomething personal trainer for professional footballers,... Continue Reading →
As far as opening credits statements go, the on-screen words that begin Departures are pretty hard to beat: "This film is inspired by all the dickheads that fucked us over. You know who you are." Setting the tone for this raw, wry and confrontingly honest look at the pleasures and pains of contemporary British gay... Continue Reading →
50 years ago this month, The Rocky Horror Picture Show had its first midnight screening at New York's Waverly Theatre (now the IFC Center) in the West Village, marking the beginning of an extraordinary turnaround for a film that had been a box office flop the previous year, and leading to exuberant shadow cast performances... Continue Reading →
The film lineup for the 25th anniversary Tribeca Festival in New York has been announced, including 118 features (103 world premieres) and 86 shorts (45 world premieres). Opening June 3rd with the world premiere of Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That’s the Weight of the World) directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the... Continue Reading →
Rocky Horror is back on Broadway for only the third time in 50 years, and it's a scream. It's also queerer than ever and horny AF. I'm sure that I haven't been alone in shivering with antici...pation, ever since last March when Roundabout Theatre Company announced that their revival of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror... Continue Reading →
Born and raised in Chicago, Palestinian American actor and filmmaker Laith Khalifeh, makes his captivating film acting debut as the protagonist in Lucio Castro's sensual and evocative third feature, Drunken Noodles, which world premiered at ACID Cannes. Khalifeh plays Adnan, a contemplative but open and curious art student who arrives in Brooklyn for the summer... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday night on Broadway, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, co-directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch’s revelatory Ballroom reinterpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical, officially opened at the Broadhurst Theatre. Lloyd Webber was in attendance to anoint the long-awaited transfer of the acclaimed and award-winning production which originated at Downtown's Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC... Continue Reading →
Co-directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch's award-winning 2024 Off-Broadway production of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), which imaginatively reinterpreted Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical theatre classic by placing it in the world of New York's Ballroom scene, blew me away. It was the talk of the town that summer... Continue Reading →
