SAPPH-O-RAMA! A 30 film exploration of the lesbian image in cinema runs at NYC’s Film Forum February 2nd – 13th

SAPPH-O-RAMA, a 30-film series exploring the eccentric, enduring, and genre-encompassing history of the lesbian image in cinema runs at New York City's Film Forum from Friday, February 2nd through Tuesday, February 13th, 2024. This swoon-worthy celebration of the sapphic canon—groundbreaking, cult favorite, or under-seen selections from the silent era to present day—includes films by Dorothy... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2024 Film Review: Layla ★★★1/2

"We're all born naked and the rest is drag", RuPaul has been pointing out for decades. British-Iraqi-Egyptian filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi's assured feature directorial and screenwriting debut Layla, which just premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, could be seen as an engaging narrative thesis on that playful, but astute observation. As the film... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2024 Film Review: Ponyboi ★★★★

Director Esteban Arango returns to Sundance with his riveting, stylish, and kinetic sophomore feature Ponyboi, which just received its world premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at the 40th edition of the festival. Written, produced by, and starring queer intersex nonbinary Latinx model, actor, and activist River Gallo, the seeds of the film were in... Continue Reading →

January 24, 2024 1

MQFF33 Film Review: In The Meantime ★★★★

Writer-director Nicholas Anthony’s debut feature, shot entirely on iPhone 13 Pro Max, takes us into the mind of Max (Bronte Charlotte), a woman in Melbourne on the verge of turning 30. A struggling writer, she’s hit a wall where her youthful enthusiasm and drive have been worn down by rejection. As she tries to live... Continue Reading →

November 1, 2023 0

Exclusive Interview: Luke Gilford & Charlie Plummer on dreamy queer rodeo movie National Anthem

2024 update: Variance Films and LD Entertainment will release National Anthem in select theaters on Friday, July 12th, expanding wide on Friday, July 19th, 2024. Growing up in Evergreen, Colorado, some of filmmaker and photographer Luke Gilford's most vivid childhood memories are of being at the rodeo with his father, who was a member of... Continue Reading →

October 17, 2023 1

Exclusive Interview: Chuck Chuck Baby filmmaker Janis Pugh & star Louise Brealey “these are voices that we don’t often hear”

British writer-director Janis Pugh's remarkable sophomore narrative feature Chuck Chuck Baby, which received its North American premiere at last month's 48th Toronto International Film Festival is a celebration of love between working class women in all its forms with a infectious carpe diem spirit. In industrial North Wales, we meet thirty-something Helen (Louise Brealey) who... Continue Reading →

October 14, 2023 0

Exclusive Interview: Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams “the real Cassandro is such a proud, out, gay man who embraces everything about who he is”

When Roger Ross Williams met Saúl Armendáriz, better known as Cassandro, for a 2016 documentary he was directing for The New Yorker—The Man Without a Mask—the filmmaker immediately knew he'd found the subject of his first scripted narrative feature. Making the move from amateur wrestling in El Paso, Armendáriz became a Mexican-American icon with the... Continue Reading →

September 15, 2023 1

TIFF 2023 Film Review: Toll (Pedágio) ★★★★

Following last year's Charcoal (Carvão), Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz returns to TIFF for the world premiere of her captivating sophomore feature Toll (Pedágio) and to receive the festival's Emerging Talent Award. Maeve Jinkings in Carolina Markowicz's Toll (Pedágio) which receives its world premiere at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival. Courtesy of TIFF. Luis Armando... Continue Reading →

September 6, 2023 1

Queer Screen Film Festival 2023 Review: Commitment To Life ★★★1/2

Prolific documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz’s (Vito, I Am Divine) latest feature, Commitment to Life, valuably adds more threads to the tapestry of our understanding of the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States by focusing on Los Angeles and the entertainment industry, in particular the work of the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).... Continue Reading →

August 23, 2023 0

Exclusive Interview: director Matthew López on Red, White & Royal Blue “it’s really important to me that my first film has a Latin lead at its centre”

If the number of views for the trailer is anything to go by (7.2 million and counting), anticipation is high for the film adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel Red, White & Royal Blue, which premieres globally on Prime Video on Friday, August 11th. Fortunately for playwright Matthew López, who makes his feauture writing and... Continue Reading →

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