What do you call a rom-com without the com? Technically From Zero to I Love You isn’t a comedy. It’s a gay romance through and through, but it has all the tropes of a rom-com. From the meet-cute, the therapist, the art-gallery job, the zippy title, the improbable scenarios, the side-kicks whose only function is... Continue Reading →
Lucio Castro’s debut feature End of the Century has the essence of a fleeting affair that burns itself into your memory for years to come, and shows a confident authorial voice that holds a lot of promise. Ocho (Juan Barberini) checks into an Airbnb in Barcelona spying a good looking man in the neighbourhood. Later... Continue Reading →
Queer|Art|Film Summer 2019 season continues with Thank God It's Friday (1978) in 35mm at IFC Center, New York, Monday 8th July 8pm. Presented by Christian John Wikane with a post-screening Q&A with Casablanca Records disco artists Felipe Rose (original co-founder and native of Village People) and D.C. LaRue. Synopsis: It’s Friday night, 1978, and a... Continue Reading →
John Cameron Mitchell’s much-loved queer rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch returns to the big screen in New York City in a new 4K restoration, playing July 11th-17th at Manhattan's IFC Center, with Mitchell appearing in person after the 7.30pm screening on July 11th. Writer-director-star Mitchell won the Best Director and Audience Awards at... Continue Reading →
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 →
The path of the queer community has never been walked in a straight line. The seminal 1984 documentary Before Stonewall charts the history of the gay and lesbian movement in the United States from the Twenties to Stonewall in 1969, making for an invaluable primer into our own collective backstory. Restored and re-released in selected... Continue Reading →
Al Pacino in William Friedkin's Cruising, 1980. As William Friedkin’s controversial movie Cruising starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop investigating a serial killer targeting gay men turns forty in 2020, Friedkin announced on twitter than he’s just finished work on a new home entertainment edition to be released in the UK this year. See... Continue Reading →
Shot on black and white film, which gives the movie an authentic, grainy, period look, the exquisite 1985 is directed and co-written by Yen Tan. Beautiful in its simplicity, all filmmaking elements come together with perfection to create an utterly absorbing, deeply moving film with fine performances all-round. Cory Michael Smith stars as Adrian, a... Continue Reading →
GALECA The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics have just announced the winners of this year’s Dorian awards. ‘Call Me By Your Name’, which led with nine nominations, was named 2017’s Film of the Year, while its star Timothée Chalamet won Dorians for both Film Performance of the Year and the group’s ‘We’re Wilde About You’... Continue Reading →
