GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics have announced the winners of the 16th Dorian Film Awards voted for by its more than 500 members. Coralie Fargeat's The Substance took Film of the Year while writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature I Saw the TV Glow won LGBTQ Film of the Year. I Saw the TV... Continue Reading →
In heavy times like these, experiencing joy is a form of resistance. Not only does it allow us to escape, reenergize and refocus, but it also reminds us what we're fighting for. Brooklyn's indie dance pop king Boy Radio's latest genre-blurring EP Himbosim is all about taking his listeners on a journey "into a joy... Continue Reading →
Star high school football player Dakota Riley (Jake Holley) is feeling the pressure. His girlfriend Skylar (Riley Quinn Scott) wants to have sex, but he’s resisting. His best friend Jaeden (Colin McCalla), who is temporarily living with him, seems to be sending out flirty vibes. While his former star-athlete dad Carson (Rib Hillis), who is... Continue Reading →
Danish drama In Ashes (Se Gennem Aske), which world premieres at Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival, follows a gay young man struggling to come to terms with his first heartbreak. Writer-director Ludvig C. Poulsen leaves the audience grasping for details as they are gradually revealed, forming an incomplete but fraught picture of modern love.... Continue Reading →
Oscar Wilde once called homosexuality “the love that dare not speak its name” (technically, he was quoting his lover Bosie), and that’s the energy that infuses Duino, the debut feature from actor-turned-filmmaker Juan Pablo Di Pace (The Mattachine Family) and editor-director Andrés Pepe Estrada (Argentina, 1985). It’s a contemplative tale of lost gay love that... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Marco Calvani's sweet-hearted emotional drama High Tide succeeds largely thanks to the excellent and honest lead performance by Marco Pigossi as Lourenço, a gay Brazilian in Provincetown left adrift by a series of life events. Stranded in P'town, Lourenço is making a living doing under the table work as a cleaner and handyman. He... Continue Reading →
Bubbling with radical feminism and a generous dose of cheek, Sally! captures the charisma and passion of the late lesbian activist Sally Miller Gearhart through political struggles and personal heartache. It’s a wild ride. Director Deborah Craig, along with co-directors Jörg Fockele and Ondine Rarey, deliver a lively and warm documentary through which Gearhart refuses... Continue Reading →
There is an undeniable, gentle warmth to Michael Clowater’s Drive Back Home that defies the frozen Canadian winter backdrop. As two estranged middle-aged brothers reconnect on a long drive from Toronto to the icy New Brunswick countryside—with a few stops along the way—touchingly, the bond between them begins to thaw. Based on true events from... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Carmen Emmi's debut feature Plainclothes, which world premiered at Sundance 2025, winning the festival's US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, has an enticing premise. In Syracuse, Upstate New York, a young police officer, Lucas (Tom Blyth), has been placed on undercover "plainclothes" duty tasked with entrapping gay men. The assignment involves lingering... Continue Reading →
A few days before this year's Sundance Film Festival began, the President declared in his inaugural address that "it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female". As Sundance 2025 takes place, five anti-trans bills continue to advance in the legislature of the... Continue Reading →
