Tag: James Kleinmann

Exclusive Interview: Orville Peck makes his movie acting debut in Street Fighter “queer people are drawn to video games – it’s an escape for us”

With Street Fighter opening in US theaters this Friday, October 16th, award-winning musician Orville Peck speaks exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann about making his feature film acting debut as Vega, representing gaymers with the role, the significance of gaming to queer people, and putting his latest deeply personal album, Muse, out into... Continue Reading →

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TIFF 2026 Film Review: Elephants in the Fog (तिनीहरू, Tinīharū) ★★★★

Abinash Bikram Shah creates a strong sense of place and masterfully sustains the tension in his haunting feature debut as writer-director, Elephants in the Fog (तिनीहरू, TinÄ«harÅ«), which made history at Cannes as the first Nepali feature to be included in the festival's official selection. Nominated for the Camera d'Or and Queer Palm, the film... Continue Reading →

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TIFF 2026 Film Review: La Bola Negra ★★★★★

Creative, and former romantic, partners Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (affectionately known as Los Javis), who you'll recognise from the judging panel if you've seen Drag Race España, proved how deftly and affectingly they could navigate multiple timelines and narrative threads with their exceptional 2020 miniseries Veneno starring Lola Rodríguez. It stands among the finest... Continue Reading →

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Excluisve Interview: Gregg Araki revisits Mysterious Skin for its 4K restoration “it’s beautiful, dreamy, & lyrical – there’s this level of softness to a story that’s so hard”

Following 4K restorations of Gregg Araki’s 90s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy—Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere—a stunning new 4K version of the filmmaker's acclaimed 2004 adaption of Scott Heim's novel, Mysterious Skin, opens theatrically in New York today. The intensely powerful chronicle of childhood innocence lost features starmaking turns from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady... Continue Reading →

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TV Review: The Shards ★★★★

As the series opens we meet privileged Los Angeles prep schooler Bret Ellis (Igby Rigney) as an alluring aerial shot tracks him driving his father's sporty Mercedes—"a tank" of a car, Bret scoffs—through the Hollywood hills, echoing the establishing shots of the film he is about to watch on its opening weekend, Kubrick's The Shining.... Continue Reading →

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