Late at night, an East London drag queen, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), is waiting to buy cigarettes when he receives the unwanted attention of a gang of aggressive young men. When he recognizes one of them, Preston (George MacKay), from the club where he performs, Jules throws a sassy one-liner at him. But rather than deflect... Continue Reading →
Director Zacharias Mavroeidis' Queer Lion-nominated The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen) is a gay film within a film, about pitching a gay film to a producer who wants a “fun, sexy, Greek and low-budget” script, and it succeeds on all fronts. Laced with a meta-commentary on queer filmmaking, incorporating several life-affirming themes, and... Continue Reading →
I’m of the opinion that every year can be a really good year for movies if you’re willing and able to do a little digging. But transcendent, formula-defying, unforgettable work seems to come along much less frequently. In 2023, I repeatedly saw a rare level of greatness, almost a rewriting of cinematic language. I think... Continue Reading →
On Monday, January 17th, GLAAD—the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization—received the Television Academy's prestigious Governors Award at the postponed 2023 Emmys ceremony, in recognition of its "profound, transformational, and long-lasting contribution to television". Two days later, GLAAD revealed its own honourees in the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which included The Queer Review in... Continue Reading →
For over a decade, Harlem-based artist Jonathan McCrory has served as Executive Artistic Director of the groundbreaking National Black Theatre (NBT), though he prefers the term "creative doula". The two-time Obie-winner describes his role as enabling "unseen ideas to be birthed between the parents, which are the playwright and the director, or sometimes the playwright... Continue Reading →
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it! The return season of Overflow, a wickedly funny and fiery.one-person play that beautifully illustrates the life of a young trans woman, lives up to all of the acclaim it has received since its Australian debut in 2022. Cornered... Continue Reading →
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and BET nominations, among many other accolades, for her performance as Oracene Price, the mother and tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams, in Reinaldo Marcus Green's 2021 feature King Richard. More recently, her work was recognized with a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of... Continue Reading →
Today sees the return of one the freshest, funniest, and most unassumingly revolutionary series on television, Sort Of, for its third and final season. The GLAAD Award-nominated, Canadian Screen and Peabody-winning comedy is created by its showrunners and executive producers, Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo. Baig also stars in the Toronto-set series as the endearing... Continue Reading →
Thursday, January 18th marks the opening of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival which runs in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah until January 28th, as well as online US-wide for the last four days of the festival. The 40th annual edition will showcase 91 features, 53 shorts, and eight episodics, with 32... Continue Reading →
It's been six years since there was a Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time, which saw the Twelfth Doctor's final yuletide adventures. Since then, we've had Thirteen causing ripples by being the first female incarnation of the Timelord and in November the show returned to its "New Who" roots with Russell T Davies... Continue Reading →
