With all eight episodes of the supernatural drama The Girl In The Woods premiering on Peacock today, The Queer Review is excited to share an exclusive clip from the series featuring non-binary actor Misha Osherovich who portrays non-binary character Nolan Frisk on the show. THE GIRL IN THE WOODS, The Guardian Episode 1. Misha Osherovich... Continue Reading →
What happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive? Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. That's the premise of the gripping murder mystery series One Of Us Is Lying, based on Karen M. McManus' bestselling novel. Ahead of today's premiere of the final two... Continue Reading →
Friday night saw the opening of NewFest's 33rd New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival with Jesse Moss' up close and personal chronicle of LGBTQ+ history in the making, Mayor Pete, at Manhattan's SVA Theatre. Before Pete Buttigieg had officially thrown his hat into the ring as a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Moss began capturing footage of... Continue Reading →
New Queer Cinema pioneer Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground, which had its world premiere at Cannes and recently played the New York Film Festival, is an exquisitely crafted, invigorating time capsule which uses music, contemporary film, archive interviews, and present day commentary from those who were there, to immerse us in New York's avant-garde culture... Continue Reading →
The first two episodes of creator Rebecca Addelman's gripping dark comedy drama Guilty Party premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday October 14th. Making an auspicious screen debut in the ten-part series is recent Juilliard graduate Jules Latimer who gives an impactful, nuanced performance as Toni Plimpton, a woman known in the media as "The Dick Cutter",... Continue Reading →
Halleloo, it's season two! Tonight sees the return of one of the best LGBTQ+ shows on television, unscripted or otherwise, HBO's Emmy-nominated We're Here, just in time to shine some much-needed queer hope into our lives. Going even deeper into the moving and uplifting stories of the transformative power of drag, the three superstar Drag... Continue Reading →
Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer's riveting feature documentary Cured, which opens the fall season of PBS' Independent Lens on Monday October 11th, examines the fascinating chapter in queer history that saw gay liberation activists successfully overturn the US psychiatric profession's classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Using archive photographs and video footage, recently discovered... Continue Reading →
Humorous. Funny. Amusing. These are words I freely use to describe comedy shows that make me giggle. Hilarious though, is a word I hold back on using for rare shows like former SNL co-head writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider's The Other Two, which recently got renewed for a third season on HBO Max. As... Continue Reading →
The Normal Heart has returned to the UK in its first major production since the original, and taking over the National Theatre's Oliver stage, directed by Dominic Cooke (in a co-production with his Picturehouse production company) it is quite the return. In many ways, Kramer’s is a time capsule of that time of dark desperation... Continue Reading →
Daddy Bond, we've been expecting you. And I'm not just thinking about the way that bespoke slim-fit Tom Ford tux clings to those biceps and quads, or the way that wet white shirt shows off his pecs towards the film's epic climax, that salt and pepper hair, those characterfully creased chiseled features, or Bond sitting... Continue Reading →
