Exclusive Interview: Craig Boreham on his brooding queer Australian indie Lonesome “I wanted to put honest representations of sex on screen”

Declared "a strong new voice in Australian queer cinema” by The Guardian, filmmaker Craig Boreham's debut feature Teenage Kicks premiered at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival, where it was an Audience Award runner-up. It went on to win two Iris Prize trophies and saw Boreham nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award. The writer-director's remarkable... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway stars Kolby Kindle, Trevor Braun & Clyde Voce “not only can we hear the laughter, we can feel the joy from the audience”

If you like to laugh, get yourself to the unrelentingly hilarious The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway forthwith. A ticket to the hit show comes with a high dosage of medicinal grade laughter, much of it courtesy of its current cast including LGBTQ+ actors Trevor Braun, Clyde Voce, and Kolby Kindle who recently spoke with... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Lukas Dhont on his Academy Award-nominated Close “I’ve been dreaming about the Oscars since I was young”

Following its Grand Prix-winning premiere at Cannes, writer-director Lukas Dhont's tender, heartbreaking, and healing sophomore feature Close, has gone on to be acclaimed at festivals around the world, and is among the five works nominated as Best International Feature Film at this weekend's 95th Academy Awards. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Frank van den Eeden, Close... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: Boy Radio returns with hot new single Leather & Denim “it’s been sitting in my heart & head for years -I’ve just been waiting for the right sounds to come”

Following his stunning 2019 debut album Pop That, Brooklyn based queer indie avant-pop artist Boy Radio returns with the sexy new single "Leather and Denim" released today, Friday, March 10th, 2023, taken from his upcoming EP. Ahead of the launch, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann had an exclusive conversation with Boy Radio about his... Continue Reading →

Billy Porter on directing a powerful LGBTQ+ episode of Fox’s Accused “creator Howard Gordon knew I’d bring authenticity to it & tell it the right way”

Following his GLAAD Media Award-nominated feature directorial debut, Anything's Possible, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy-winner Billy Porter directs a powerful and emotional episode of the drama series Accused, airing on Fox on Tuesday, February 21st at 9pm ET/PT 8pm CT. The episode, "Robyn's Story", stars J. Harrison Ghee—currently appearing on Broadway in Some Like It Hot—as... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Goran Stolevski on queer romance Of An Age “it’s more emotionally autobiographical than literal”

Writer-director-editor Goran Stolevski's achingly romantic and emotionally potent sophomore feature, Of An Age, opened Queer Screen's 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival this week and is playing in US cinemas from today. The Macedonian-born, Australian-raised queer filmmaker followed his Sundance award-winning short, Would You Look At Her, by directing several episodes of the fourth season of... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: Jose Colon & Cooper Koch on queer body-horror Swallowed “it’s not flashy nudity it’s part of the story”

With Sundance award-winning filmmaker Carter Smith's sexy and unsettling queer horror Swallowed now available on demand and digital in the US, two of its stars, Cooper Koch and Jose Colon, speak exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann about how they got involved, shooting in a cabin in the woods in rural Maine, working... Continue Reading →

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