Visual AIDS presents Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS premieres November 30th at 6pm EST

For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presents TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK). The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of... Continue Reading →

November 30, 2020 0

Finding my community by putting Cardiff’s LGBTQIA+ stories Centre Stage

What making a documentary about Cardiff's LGBTQIA+ community taught me about myself, and where I fit into that community. When the Sherman Theatre asked for pitches for their Heart of Cardiff series, a set of audio dramas to take the place of their usual autumn season, I took a gamble and pitched a documentary. The... Continue Reading →

November 30, 2020 0

Rainbow Railroad’s #60in60 Campaign aims to raise $600,000 in the last 60 days of 2020 to save 60 LGBTQI lives

At the start of November, Rainbow Railroad, a vital international organisation that helps LGBTQI people escape violence and persecution to find a path to safety, launched its #60in60 Campaign to raise CA $600,000 in the last 60 days of 2020 to save 60 lives. In its first 30 days the campaign has raised around CA... Continue Reading →

November 29, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: Bronze Avery on his new folk-pop disco track Sea Salt “there’s a great sense of pride when other queer people are inspired to live their truths because I’m doing it in my music”

Yesterday saw the release of LA based queer singer-songwriter-producer Bronze Avery's latest single Sea Salt, featuring Miss Benny. It's a folky fall slow dance anthem to warm the soul with beautifully smooth and sultry vocals and emotional lyrics that cut deep. The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann had an exclusive chat with Bronze Avery about... Continue Reading →

November 28, 2020 0

Go Where You Wanna Go – Film Review: Nomadland ★★★★★

The late great film critic Roger Ebert famously said, “The movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” No other film I’ve seen this year has evoked such empathetic feelings in me than Nomadland. I knew within the first ten minutes of watching Chloé Zhao’s followup to her fantastic feature, The Rider, that I would... Continue Reading →

November 28, 2020 5

DOC NYC 2020 Film Review: Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker ★★★★★

In examining the life of artist, photographer, writer, actor, musician, filmmaker, and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, using his own words, imagery, and music, director Chris McKim (Freedia Got a Gun, Out of Iraq) has created a rich and riveting work that captures Wojnarowicz's unapologetically queer spirit, and serves as a testimony to the enduring power... Continue Reading →

November 27, 2020 4

Lesbian Actually – Emily Garside on why queer festive film Happiest Season is an important early Christmas gift

**Contains potential spoilers** Happiest Season, which arrives on Hulu in the US today Wednesday November 25th, ticks all the Christmas film and rom-com boxes. It’s got awkward family encounters and secrets. It’s got festive set ups from ice skating to Christmas parties. It has ghosts of Christmases past (and relationships past) and a healthy dose... Continue Reading →

November 25, 2020 0

Who’s Afraid Of Aubrey Plaza? – Film Review: Black Bear ★★★★

Most aspiring writers, at one point or another, receive the advice to “write what you know”. Clearly, filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine has taken that to heart with his tricky, startling, engaging feature, Black Bear. Transposing himself, possibly onto more than one character, Levine has made a film about filmmaking, artistic control, identity, marital fidelity, feminism,... Continue Reading →

November 24, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: Peter Macdissi on his Uncle Frank role “a Muslim from Saudi Arabia who was able to reconcile his religion with being gay, I thought that was refreshing to see”

Ahead of the release of Oscar-winner Alan Ball's latest feature film as writer and director, Uncle Frank, which lands on Amazon Prime Video this Wednesday November 25th, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann spoke exclusively with the movie's cast including Peter Macdissi. Peter plays Wally, the longterm partner of Paul Bettany's NYU professor character Frank... Continue Reading →

November 23, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: Uncle Frank star Lois Smith on being Tony nominated for The Inheritance “it’s just a delight at this time when everything has gone splat”

Actress Lois Smith, who turned 90 earlier this month, received her third Tony nomination in October for her deeply moving performance in Matthew Lopez's epic gay play The Inheritance. Born in Kansas, Smith moved to New York City in 1951, making her Broadway debut the following year in Time Out for Ginger and her auspicious... Continue Reading →

November 23, 2020 0