I've just watched the series finale of Baskets on FX. As a self-confessed Baskets-case this might be more of a tribute than a review. Over the last three years I have basked in the brilliance of the performances; two are by the show's Exec Producer and co-creator Zach Galifianakis as as twin brothers Chip and... Continue Reading →
*N.B. May contain unintentional Pose Season 2 spoilers.*The Category is...Season 2 Finale Extravaganza! Brilliantly by directed Janet Mock, who made television history last season as the first trans woman of colour to write, direct and produce for a series, this marks the second episode Mock has directed this season, and its one the most satisfying.... Continue Reading →
Filmmaker Rodney Evans says towards the end of his new feature documentary Vision Portraits that he makes films about the things that he's most fearful of. Here the subject, or the starting point at least, is loss of sight. With under ten percent of vision remaining in each eye, Evans has no peripheral eyesight as... Continue Reading →
Vita & Virginia, directed by Chanya Button, is a film about one of the definitive Bloomsbury love affairs, that between literary lion Virginia Woolf and popular novelist Vita Sackville-West. Starring Gemma Arterton as Vita and Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia, it depicts the trajectory of their relationship in broad brushstrokes while shimmering with period detail, from... Continue Reading →
Fresh off an Oscar nomination for co-writing Straight Outta Compton, Andrea Berloff has adapted a DC comic book series and turned it into easily one of the worst films of 2019. It all sounded promising enough. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as Farrah-haired, New York City 70s gangster wives who take over for... Continue Reading →
This year has already seen a wealth of authentic feeling, stylish screen drama centred on the teenage experience, with the likes of Euphoria and Share examining life in present day USA and now This Is Berlin takes us back to 1980s Mexico City. Xabiani Ponce de León stars as seventeen year-old Carlos, a highschooler unimpressed... Continue Reading →
What do you call a rom-com without the com? Technically From Zero to I Love You isn’t a comedy. It’s a gay romance through and through, but it has all the tropes of a rom-com. From the meet-cute, the therapist, the art-gallery job, the zippy title, the improbable scenarios, the side-kicks whose only function is... Continue Reading →
Why is The Queer Review looking at a crowdfunded documentary about Star Trek’s black sheep, Deep Space Nine? Simple, DS9 was the queerest Trek - breaking new ground with its depictions of lesbian romances, trans-relationships and pointed political commentary. Its representation was patchy, but it was there pushing at the edges. What We Left Behind... Continue Reading →
Imagine dark, sexy teen drama Riverdale - now replace their euphemistic fictional drug Jingle Jangle with the real stuff and you’ve got something closer to HBO’s Euphoria which has just wrapped its US run and is preparing to launch in the UK on Sky Atlantic this week. Zendaya lays her former life as a Disney... Continue Reading →
