The winners at this year's LGBT+ Iris Prize film festival were announced at a special awards ceremony on Saturday October 10th night including performances by Casi Wyn and Heather Small. Victoria Warmerdam's Short Calf Muscle (Kote Kuitspier) is the winner of the Iris Prize 2020, Cardiff’s International LGBT+ Short Film Prize, supported by The Michael... Continue Reading →
Middle-aged fertilizer company manager Sandro (Leandro Faria Lelo) is supposed to be helping organize a union, but all he can think about is sex. He has a lot of it with his handsome younger coworker Ricardo (Allan Jacinto Santana), meeting up after their shift in the nearby forest for regular trysts, getting down and dirty... Continue Reading →
"How many Black people have to die before anti-Black violence is taken seriously? Our thoughts are with George Floyd’s loved ones for their untenable loss. And we support the ongoing protests underway in Minneapolis and St. Paul demanding that the four officers who were involved in this fatality be arrested and charged with murder. Today, Hennepin... Continue Reading →
A subject of David France's Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague, long-term AIDS and LGBTQ rights activist Peter Staley joined ACT UP (AIDS coalition to Unleash Power) in its first weeks in 1987 where he got to know fellow activist and writer Larry Kramer, who died yesterday aged 84. Staley went on to become... Continue Reading →
[Everything is true. The names, however, have been changed to protect the innocent and the not-so-innocent] He doesn’t appear the least bit nervous. He sits calmly, steady legs, arms casually placed on each knee. He has a direct stare and flippantly casual responses to every question posed to him. You’d think a pair of burly,... 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 →
Instead of a top 10 list, every year I like to honor a long-discontinued but influential annual column from Film Comment magazine. I couldn’t wait for my father to come home from work with the “Moments Out Of Time” issue. The writers would cite their favorite scenes, images, or lines of dialogue, even from films... Continue Reading →
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony winning screenwriter, producer, and director Ryan Murphy will be honoured with the Vito Russo Award at the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hilton Midtown in New York on Thursday, March 19 2020. POSE "Never Knew Love Like This Before" Season 2, Episode 4. Angelica Ross as Candy.... Continue Reading →
"Checking in with yourself isn't a secular, new age religion. It's accepting that life is both magical and a bewildering clusterfuck.You're going to need a good team. Make sure you're on it." As the winter sun sets on 2019 with an uncouth yawn, we find ourselves on the brink of not only a new year,... Continue Reading →
Facebook Portal has hit the market with a new range, as the social media giant continues to pivot into smart-home-tech and steal some market space from Apple, Google and Amazon. Portal isn't simply a videophone (you’ve got the Beyonce song in your head now haven’t you?), there’s more to it, but that’s the core of... Continue Reading →
