Are you proud? It’s a simple question with a lot of long and complicated answers, as highlighted in Ashley Joiner’s fascinating but unfocused documentary on the state of the LGBTQ movement in the United Kingdom. The film begins with a personal look at the state of queer Britain in the mid 20th century. A former... Continue Reading →
Leave the dressing room antics of RuPaul's Drag Race behind and step back in time to 1967 and the lead up to the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant in the largely forgotten documentary The Queen, restored and re-released in New York this week, with other US cities to follow. Originally released to rave reviews in New... Continue Reading →
Unrequited love, unequal love: these are the topics at play in Michael Dennis’ debut full-length work that is about to premiere at London’s Trafalgar Studios. The comedy, Dark Sublime, brings a new gay playwright into the spotlight and sees the theatrical return of a long absent British actress, Marina Sirtis, best known to sci-fi fans... Continue Reading →
If The Gospel of Eureka wasn't a documentary it would probably be a high concept comedy or utopian fantasy film given the unlikely coexistence of evangelical Christians and an out and proud LGBTQ community in the Arkansas town of Eureka Springs, population: 2,074. The improbable nature of the scenario is embraced by the film's directors Michael... Continue Reading →
Tickets for the highly anticipated Broadway run of Matthew Lopez’s epic two-part play, The Inheritance, will go on sale to the general public this Monday 24th June at 10am EST at Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200. Directed by Stephen Daldry, the multi Olivier award winning play is set to begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th street) on Friday 27th September 2019 and will officially... Continue Reading →
BFI Southbank will screen the BBC Film Stonewall (1995), not to be confused with the best forgotten 2015 Roland Emmerich film of the same, on Friday 28th June 2019 at 6.15pm. The special screening on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising will be introduced by the film's writer Rikki Beadle-Blair and producer Anthony Wall.... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ film series Grit and Glitter: Before and After Stonewall begins today Friday 21st June at New York's Museum of the Moving Image running until 6th July 2019. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and this month's World Pride celebrations the LGBTQ film series at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) has... Continue Reading →
Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, the Bagri Foundation's London Indian Film Festival opens in London today Thursday 20th June 2019 and runs at various cinemas in the capital until Saturday 29th June. The UK festival also runs in Birmingham (21st June - 1st July) and Manchester (26th- 29th June). The 2019 LIFF offers a... Continue Reading →
A new 4K restoration of Jack Hazan's A Bigger Splash opens at the Metrograph, New York City, Friday 21st June, with a special preview screening and party tonight 20th June at 11pm. There will be a series of Q&As during the film's theatrical run. A Bigger Splash Described by Martin Scorsese as "one of the... Continue Reading →
The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Frameline, opens tonight 20th June 2019 with lesbian period drama Vita & Virginia. As Pam Grady notes in the festival's programme, the film features "sensational star turns by Elizabeth Debicki (Widows) as Virginia Woolf and Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) as Vita Sackville-West" and brings "to dazzling life one... Continue Reading →
