If you loved Heated Rivalry, Jacob Tierney’s TV adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changer series of novels and are longing for more queer hockey romances, you're in luck, there is a whole raft of books out there to discover; from YA, to spicy adult fiction and sapphic stories. François Arnaud as Scott Hunter and Robbie... Continue Reading →
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York filmmakers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki collaborated with voice actors and composers to create 2 Lizards, a captivating surrealist eight-part animated series. Originally released on Bennani’s Instagram account, the episodes focused on two anthropomorphic lizard best friends as they experienced the isolation, uncertainty and yearning... Continue Reading →
Belgian filmmaker Cato Kusters makes her powerfully affecting feature debut with an adaptation of Fleur Pierets’ acclaimed 2019 book, Julian, a memoir of love, activism, and grief. In 2017, Fleur (Nina Meurisse) and her wife Julian P. Boom (Laurence Roothooft) launched 22 The Project, a performance art piece in which the couple planned to get... Continue Reading →
Bretten Hannam is a Two-Spirit L’nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), Canada where they were raised. They wrote and directed the short films, New Skin, Puppy, Deep End, and Elmiteskuatl, and the features North Mountain and Wildhood, which was one of the 2SLGBTQ+ highlights at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Hannam... Continue Reading →
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, the second largest entertainment journalists organization in the world, today announced the group’s 2026 Dorian Film Award nominations. Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another leads with nine nominations—including Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Screenplay, and acting honors for Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean... Continue Reading →
Contains spoilers It’s been a moment since a TV show was almost unavoidable in both media discussions and memeification, but it’s currently impossible to miss "the gay hockey show" aka Heated Rivalry, writer-director-producer Jacob Tierney's adaptation of Rachel Reid’s Game Changer series of novels. Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov... Continue Reading →
Following its world premiere at Cannes, where it was nominated for the Queer Palm and won the Critics' Week Grand Prize, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's startlingly original and delectably queer debut feature A Useful Ghost (Pee Chai Dai Ka) made its North American premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be... Continue Reading →
For decades now, people constantly tell me how movies just aren’t as good as in the past. To use a technical term, I “poo-poo” that sentiment and respond that great movies have been around, you just have to look a little harder. Some years yield better results than others, and for me, 2025 gave us... Continue Reading →
The Queer Review is honoured to be among the nominees in the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards announced today, receiving a third consecutive nomination in the Outstanding Independent Journalism (formerly Outstanding Blog) category, while one of the buzziest shows of the year, Heated Rivalry, is nominated in the Outstanding New TV Series category. As the... Continue Reading →
In this politically regressive era in the United States and beyond, it is especially vital that LGBTQ+ history be recorded and shared, enabling us to find context, empowerment and guidance in the narratives of our queer and trans forebearers. Recognizing that necessity is composer, sound designer, writer and audio producer Hugh Sheehan, whose exquisitely crafted... Continue Reading →
