The Glasgow Film Festival has announced its 2020 line up with a series of notable LGBTQ films receiving their UK and Scottish premieres, and a focus on female filmmakers. Scottish audiences will get their first chance to see acclaimed queer films Moffie (★★★★★), Rialto (★★★★) and Deux/Two of Us (★★★1/2). In addition there are three... Continue Reading →
From Sundance 2020, The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann spoke exclusively with filmmakers Elegance Bratton and Jovan James about their beautiful short film Buck which had its world premiere at the festival on Sunday night. Partly inspired by the deaths of two young Black men under suspicious circumstances in Los Angeles, Buck follows a young... Continue Reading →
Madonna's Madame X has had remixers working overtime over the last few months. The Queer Review's James Derek Dwyer gives Dan De Leon & Anthony Griego's Crave Remix a listen... https://youtu.be/6ErR6R2rH28 My fave tune from Madonna’s wildly disjointed (in a good way!) Madame X, Crave, gets a big room DJ friendly remix shot through with... Continue Reading →
Following the success of last summer's World Pride events at New York's Javits Center featuring the likes of Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper and Billy Porter and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for LGBTQ+ charities, mega-events producer Jake Resnicow is bringing some Burning Man inspired innovation to Manhattan's gay nightlife with what's billed as the... Continue Reading →
The new album (such a Pet Shop Boys’ word), Hotspot is a majestic return to a beautifully consistent form. Having obsessed about their chart positions, b-sides, obscure formats and rare 12" mixes during my adolescence and coming out, (“Please” sound tracked quite a few sunburned, vacation daydreams in late 80’s Florida and Cape Cod, later... Continue Reading →
Playwright Alexis Gregory's Sex/Crime, which he also stars in alongside East End queer cabaret legend Jonny Woo, opened at London’s Soho Theatre this week following a sold out run at The Glory. Directed by Robert Chevara, the gritty often darkly comic thriller is set in a fractured and divided city, where two men, who are... Continue Reading →
With IDW Entertainment's October Faction hitting Netflix this Thursday January 23rd, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann spoke exclusively with one of its stars, Aurora Burghart. She plays Viv Allen on the show, the twin sister of out and proud gay high schooler Geoff (Gabriel Darku). In the wide-ranging interview, Aurora praises how Geoff's sexuality... Continue Reading →
From the basement of East London's The Glory to the ‘attic’ of the Soho Theatre Alexis Gregory’s play, Sex/Crime (and it’s wipe-clean set) illuminates the secret sex-lives of gay serial killers and their admirers. Being a ‘fan’ is apparently far too common. Sex/Crime is a dark dash through the underbelly of a city gripped by... Continue Reading →
IDW Entertainment's October Faction, a thrilling sci-fi, horror, fantasy hybrid drama, based on the IDW Publishing comic books by Steve Niles and Damien Worm launches globally on Netflix this Thursday January 23rd 2020. The series stars Gabriel Darku as Geoff Allen, a seventeen year-old out and proud gay high schooler who is forced to move from... Continue Reading →
One of our favourite London LGBTQ+ film and community events The Vito Project returns to the Cinema Museum next week with the first of three monthly screenings that have just been announced. The 2020 programme begins with a 25th anniversary screening of The Celluloid Closet on 35mm on January 26th, followed by a double bill... Continue Reading →
