Tag: gay film

Exclusive Interview: Neil Ely & Lloyd Eyre-Morgan on Departures “it’s our truth on screen – we filmed it urgently while we were feeling it”

Inspired by real-life heartbreak and trauma, British writer-co-director-producer-star Lloyd Eyre-Morgan reunited with his longterm collaborator, co-director-producer Neil Ely, to channel what he was feeling into their latest feature, the dark comedy drama Departures. Set in Manchester, Eyre-Morgan plays unassuming Northen gay thirty-something Benji, who falls for the wrong guy during a chance encounter at an... Continue Reading →

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Film Review: The Wedding Banquet ★★★★

Andrew Ahn's contemporary reworking of Ang Lee's Oscar-nominated classic The Wedding Banquet—with a new screenplay by Ahn co-written with the original film's writer James Schamus—is a delightfully warm and uplifting rom-com with heart and soul, and an ensemble cast to die for. Shifting the setting west from New York to Seattle, Ahn and Schamus also... Continue Reading →

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The Queer Agenda: April 2025

Welcome to the April edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City and beyond. April 3-7 - NewFest Queering the Canon: So Obsessed - In-person at BAM, New York & streaming nationwide Courtesy of NewFest. NewFest and BAM's fifth annual retrospective screening series “Queering... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Lucio Castro on his enigmatic sophomore feature After This Death “it represents me in a very fractured way”

Writer-director Lucio Castro follows his acclaimed 2019 debut feature, End of the Century (Fin de siglo), with the brooding and seductively enigmatic After This Death featuring a captivating central performance by Mía Maestro. Reverberating with love and loss, Castro's latest work—which is dedicated to his late mother—received its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale. Maestro... Continue Reading →

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The Queer Agenda: March 2025

Rabbit Rabbit. Welcome to the March (hare) edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City, Los Angeles, London and beyond. Stay queer and fierce out there. Please Hold (70 mins, 2024) by Alexandra Juhasz premieres at the Parkside Lounge, New York at 5pm on... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaking duo Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon on their erotic thriller Night Stage “queer sex scenes can be very political & provocative”

Brazilian-Italian writer-director duo Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon made their feature debut in 2015 with the queer coming-of-age drama Seashore (Beira-Mar) which premiered at the Berlinale and went on to win three prizes at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Their captivating 2018 sophomore feature Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta), exploring the double life of... Continue Reading →

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