Category: Interviews

The Queer Review Interviews

Exclusive Interview: Sal Salandra wants his thread paintings to celebrate the joy of gay sex & encourage self-acceptance

80-year-old self-taught erotic artist Sal Salandra's vibrant needlepoint "thread paintings" pulsate with a playful carnal energy that unapologetically celebrates the bliss of gay sex in all its variety. Salandra's use of a medium that is typically associated with more neutral, traditionally domestic motifs to conjure kinetic scenes of fisting, orgies, and BDSM gives the work... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Prince Faggot star Mihir Kumar on Off-Broadway’s most talked about play of the year – “I’ve never felt such a strong personal attachment to something I was in”

Mihir Kumar is currently starring in one of New York's most talked about plays of the year—Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury—in an extended run at Studio Seaview through December 13th, 2025, following a sell-out world premiere stint at Playwrights Horizons this summer. The play, which marks Kumar's stunning Off-Broadway debut, sees... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Bryson Battle, B Noel Thomas & J. Harrison Ghee on Off-Broadway’s exhilarating new musical Saturday Church – “it’s today’s queer liberation story”

Three decades ago, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking Rent was birthed Off-Broadway in Manhattan's East Village at the storied New York Theatre Workshop. Now an equally timely, poignant, and empowering new musical is setting that venue ablaze each night with defiant and uplifting queer joy. Boasting fierce creative credentials, Saturday Church has a book and additional lyrics... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Plainclothes stars Tom Blyth & Russell Tovey “we’re definitely both unserious people, but serious about the work”

When writer-director Carmen Emmi's visually striking and emotionally resonant feature debut, Plainclothes, world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film garnered a raft of enthusiastic reviews and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for its acting ensemble. Leading that award-winning cast is Tom Blyth (The Gilded Age) who plays a young... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Mila Jam launches electrifying Keepin It Pretty music video – “it’s an empowering celebration”

Mila Jam has just unveiled the electrifying new music video for her latest single, "Keepin It Pretty". Directed by Sammy Martel and choreographed by the visionary Leo Moctezuma, it is an explosion of color, movement, and attitude that features a standout appearance from Swedish singer Manda Malina. She joins Jam on the track, turning the... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: James Sweeney & Dylan O’Brien on their twisty & poignant Sundance Award-winning comedy drama Twinless

Actor and filmmaker James Sweeney follows his Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut feature, Straight Up, with the twisty and poignant comedy drama Twinless starring opposite Dylan O'Brien as young men who meet in a support group for bereaved twins and form an unlikely friendship. Roman (O'Brien) and Dennis (Sweeney) both search for solace and an identity... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Lurker filmmaker Alex Russell with stars Théodore Pellerin & Archie Madekwe

One of this year's buzziest American indies on the film festival circuit—and with good reason—is filmmaker Alex Russell's compelling feature debut, Lurker, which made its world premiere at Sundance. An Emmy-winner for the hit comedy series The Bear, the writer-director was inspired by his observations of the hierarchies that form in the music business and... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke on Honey Don’t! – “we wanted to fill the movie with as much queerness as possible”

Following last year's lesbian crime caper road movie starring Margaret Qualley, Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s latest collaboration, Honey Don't—which also stars Qualley—queers the film noir by subverting the genre's gender norms in a delectably dark comedy. Stylishly shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog), with enticing characters brilliantly... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Dolly Wells on bringing Joy to Miranda’s life on And Just Like That… “it feels so hopeful, sweet & romantic”

When a newly single Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) encountered BBC producer Joy, played by British actress Dolly Wells, in front of the United Nations building towards the end of the second season of And Just Like That... sparks flew. Season three of the Sex and the City spin-off, currently debuting Thursdays on Max, has seen Miranda... Continue Reading →

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