When queer experimental filmmaker Charles Lum died in 2021, he left his friend and frequent collaborator Todd Verow in charge of his body of work. This archive included Super 8 films that Lum had shot in the 1970s and 80s and his Super 8 film camera, along with several undeveloped cartridges and some unused but... Continue Reading →
Unless you've been living in a BDSM dungeon for the past few months (no judgements here), you will no doubt have seen dreamboat daddy Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd dominating red carpets around the globe with leather and fetish flourishes ("kinky in the front, kinkier in the back", is how Vogue described his BFI London ensemble) since his... Continue Reading →
Brydie O'Connor's tenderly-crated feature debut Barbara Forever, world premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, is as sensual, intimate and uninhibited as much of the work of its prolific subject, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Immediately drawing us into Hammer's world, where the personal and artistic are interwoven, we hear... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Lucio Castro follows his acclaimed 2019 debut feature, End of the Century (Fin de siglo), with the brooding and seductively enigmatic After This Death featuring a captivating central performance by MĂa Maestro. Reverberating with love and loss, Castro's latest workâwhich is dedicated to his late motherâreceived its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale. Maestro... Continue Reading →
Following the world premiere of Queerpanorama (çŸççž) at the 75th Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film was in competition for the prestigious Teddy Award, filmmaker Jun Li and star Jayden Cheung speak exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the strikingly shot black and white film... Continue Reading →
In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Annâs Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nationâs founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →
From reviled underground filmmaker to widely revered, self-proclaimed "filth elder", John Waters was honoured for his six-decade career with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last year just as a major exhibition and retrospective screening series, John Waters: Pope Of Trash, opened at the prestigious Academy Museum in Los Angeles. The latest title... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Gabriel Carrubba's atmospheric and touching queer coming-of-age debut feature Sunflower has been lighting up the Australian festival circuit, including screenings at Sydney Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and Cinefest Oz. This month it plays Queer Screen's 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival, which runs in cinemas in Sydney February 15th â 29th, with... Continue Reading →
In an exclusive conversation for The Queer Review, prolific New Queer Cinema provocateur Todd Verow and veteran actor Guillermo DĂaz discuss their collaboration on the atmospheric and captivating indie horror thriller You Can't Stay Here, which opens in New York at the IFC Center on Friday, January 5th, followed by its New Orleans release at... Continue Reading →
One of the standouts at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival, Billy Lutherâs richly evocative 1990-set narrative feature debut Frybread Face and Me, was recently acquired by Ava DuVernayâs ARRAY Releasing and will open in select theaters and launch on Netflix on Friday, November 24th. The comedy drama follows 11-year-old Benny (Keir Tallman) as he... Continue Reading →
