Tony and Olivier award-winning veteran theatre director Michael Grandage follows his 2016 feature film debut, Genius, with the delicately powerful My Policeman, which world premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival and opens in select US cinemas today ahead of its global launch on Prime Video on November 4th. Based on the bestselling book... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: My Policeman director Michael Grandage “I was born into that world where homosexuality was still illegal in England”
Tony and Olivier award-winning veteran theatre director and producer Michael Grandage's poignant sophomore feature film, My Policeman, which received its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, opens in US theaters on October 21st before its global launch on Prime Video on Friday November 4th. Based on the novel by Bethan Roberts, with... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: End Of. (Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney) ★★★1/2
Ash Flanders' one-person show, End Of., is a mood. It’s a bizarre ride through death, grammar, and bad acid trips. I guess I’m trying to say that End Of. is a bit messy and incoherent, but then who said the destination had to be as good as the journey anyway? A succession of stories both... Continue Reading →
Film Review: In From The Side ★★★
UPDATE: In From The Side screens at Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival running in cinemas in Sydney and on demand Australia-wide from February 15th to March 2nd, 2023. Click here for tickets and more information. Affairs can be messy, especially in the small, incestuous world of a South London gay rugby team. Writer-director-producer-cinematographer-editor-composer... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Wendell & Wild star Sam Zelaya “to not only have this kind of trans representation but to also be part of it is amazing”
If you're looking for a treat to stream this Halloween, you've found it. Following its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, acclaimed stop motion animation filmmaker Henry Selick and certified horror hitmaker Jordan Peele's delightfully macabre Wendell & Wild launches on Netflix on Friday, October 28th, just in time for the spookiest... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: director Laurent Bouzereau & Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black on Mama’s Boy “the idea that we can’t be with people who are too different has shattered the queer community”
Adapted from Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black's bestselling 2019 memoir, director Laurent Bouzereau's deeply moving and unexpectedly urgent feature documentary Mama's Boy debuts on HBO and HBO Max tonight, Tuesday, October 18th 2022. Traveling back to the places where he grew up with two brothers, Black explores his Southern conservative Mormon childhood roots,... Continue Reading →
A Torch Of Class – Film Review: Triangle Of Sadness ★★★★
With such features as, Force Majeure and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winning The Square, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has established himself as an expert satirist with a clean, measured approach to shooting a scene. His style feels reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick at his most diabolical with concise framing, long takes, and a cold, removed... Continue Reading →
NewFest 2022 Opening Night Film Review: Mama’s Boy ★★★1/2
NewFest's 34th annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival opened tonight with the world premiere of director Laurent Bouzereau's deeply moving and unexpectedly urgent adaptation of Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black's 2019 best-selling memoir, Mama's Boy, which debuts on HBO and HBO Max on Tuesday, October 18th 2022. "Very soon, I promise you, you... Continue Reading →
Sundance 2023 to premiere restored & uncensored director’s cut of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation
Ahead of the full 2023 Sundance Film Festival program being unveiled in December, the Sundance Institute today announced that it will debut the uncensored director's cut of Gregg Araki's cult classic The Doom Generation in its From the Collection section. The second film in Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse trilogy originally played in the Premieres lineup at the... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Clea DuVall & Laura Kittrell on adapting Tegan & Sara’s queer coming-of-age memoir High School
When Clea DuVall read an early version of High School, Tegan and Sara Quin's bestselling memoir about their teenage experiences, growing up as musically gifted queer twins in 90s suburban Canada, the actor and filmmaker immediately knew that she wanted to bring their book to the screen. As well as directing several episodes of the... Continue Reading →
