Recently named on the TIME100 NEXT list recognizing influential leaders in various fields, Alice Oseman is an author, illustrator, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the internationally bestselling LGBTQ+ teenage romance comic series Heartstopper. Alice is also the creator and showrunner of the much-loved Netflix adaptation, has written every episode to date and... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Oh, Mary! star Bianca Leigh on Cole Escola’s hit Broadway comedy “laughter is my oxygen”
For the last few months, Broadway's oldest continually operating legitimate theatre, the Lyceum, has reverberated with the raucous laughter of sell-out houses attending Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! Having made its award-winning debut downtown at the Lucille Lortel earlier this year, the irreverent, colourful—and very queer—reimagining of historical figures, centred around a petulant, heavy-drinking, frustrated cabaret... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Rez Ball filmmaker Sydney Freeland “it was really important that we were able to shoot on the Navajo reservation – there’s a texture & spirit to the land”
Over the last decade, Emmy-nominated writer, director, and producer Sydney Freeland has forged an impressive film and television career centering marginalized characters and diverse voices. Earlier this year, Echo, the Marvel limited series that she directed and executive produced, premiered at number one on both Disney+ and Hulu. Back in 2014, her debut feature, Drunktown’s... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Titanique (The Grand Electric, Sydney) ★★★★
It’s all seamen and Céline fucking Dion in Sydney at the moment as Off-Broadway sensation Titanique makes its international debut down under ahead of its London debut in December. This semi-improvised parody jukebox musical has been given some local flavour and filled with the elite crop of local musical comedy talent for a night full... Continue Reading →
TIFF 2024 Film Review: Will & Harper ★★★★★
Comedy writer Harper Steele and comedian Will Ferrell have been friends ever since they began working together on Saturday Night Live nearly 30 years ago. During the pandemic, Steele took Ferrell by surprise when she sent him an email telling him that she was transitioning. Steele, who rose to become head writer on SNL, has... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: On Swift Horses director Daniel Minahan “queer people always find each other”
Emmy and Peabody-winning writer, producer, and director Daniel Minahan's screen career spans nearly three decades. His first major credit was as co-screenwriter with Mary Harron on I Shot Andy Warhol in 1996. More recently he directed the Netflix miniseries Halston, and has directed episodes of Fellow Travelers, Ratched, Hollywood, American Crime Story: The Assassination of... Continue Reading →
Setting A President – Film Review: Lover Of Men – The Untold History Of Abraham Lincoln ★★★½
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone say to me lately, “Pete Buttigieg will be our first gay President some day.” Hell, I’ve even said it myself a number of times. But what if we’ve already had one or two, albeit not openly so? Rumors have abounded over the years that James... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ highlights at 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opens this Thursday, September 5th with the world premiere of David Gordon Green’s fish-out-of-water comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller, while Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut, Australian-set teen musical comedy The Deb, will world premiere as the official closing nighter on Saturday, September 14th ahead of the... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Misia Butler on his heroic trans character in Netflix’s Greek mythology series KAOS “I find it really empowering to see someone so strong in his identity”
Charlie Covell, creator of the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated The End Of The F***ing World, is about to unleash KAOS on Netflix: their eight-episode, bold, darkly comic, contemporary—and frequnetly queer—take on Greek mythology, launching Thursday, August 29th. Epic in scope, the series follows the steady unraveling of the cruel and capricious King of the Gods, Zeus... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 Theatre Review: Same Team (Traverse Theatre) ★★★★★
Developed with and inspired by the stories of women from Street Soccer Scotland, Same Team is a powerful drama full of strong performances and plenty of heart. Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Written by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, Same Team charts the success of a plucky Scottish Women's football team as they travel to... Continue Reading →
