Exclusive Interview: Queerpanorama filmmaker Jun Li & star Jayden Cheung “the inspiration came to me while I was having sex”

Following the world premiere of Queerpanorama (眾生相) 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 →

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TV Review: Fellow Travelers ★★★★★

Created by Oscar-nominated Philadelphia screenwriter Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, the eight-episode Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers is an exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction. With a nuanced gay love story at its centre, it is a captivating, sweeping, and deeply moving epic that takes in the Lavender Scare of the... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Carter Smith on his queer horror Swallowed “I wanted to put the male body front & centre”

Queer filmmaker Cater Smith grew up in rural Maine, launching his photography career in New York aged just 17, going on to shoot some of the world's most famous faces for the likes of W, Vogue, i-D, and GQ. His 2006 debut short as writer and director, Bugcrush, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance... Continue Reading →

February 14, 2023 2

Mardi Gras Film Festival 2023 Review: Elephant (Słoń) ★★★★

The autumnal landscape of southern Poland shines in writer-director Kamil Krawczycki’s new feature, Elephant (Słoń), adding fresh layers to the familiar tale of a rural young man discovering his sexuality in a homophobic town. Bartek (Jan Hrynkiewicz) works multiple jobs to support himself and his mother, looking after their farm animals by day and helping... Continue Reading →

January 21, 2023 1

Book Review: A Boy’s Own Story The Graphic Novel ★★★★

Eighties gay-lit classic, A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White, has been adapted into a gorgeous graphic novel by Michael Carroll, Brian Alessandro, and Igor Karash, that manages to streamline the original book and strike at the heart of White’s autobiographical breakthrough. Opening in the American midwest of the 1950s and jumping forward through time... Continue Reading →

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Theatre Review: Patience (2ST UPTOWN, New York) ★★★1/2

For five years running, Daniel (Justiin Davis) has been the world's reigning solitaire champion. Yes, the solo card game, otherwise known as patience. He's been described as "the Venus Williams of solitaire", as he points out himself, and at only 25, his skills have already made him internationally famous and wealthy. He's just moved into... Continue Reading →

August 17, 2022 1

Hugh Nini & Neal Treadwell’s vintage photography book LOVING brought to the screen in breathtaking 100 Years of Men in Love: The Accidental Collection

In October 2020, The Queer Review spoke with Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell about their stunning book LOVING A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s. It's a collection of previously unpublished vernacular photography depicting romantic love between men that powerfully and movingly reasserts both that love is love and that we’ve always been here.... Continue Reading →

April 10, 2022 1

Exclusive Interview: creative & fashion director Sam Ratelle “I’m excited for where the future of menswear is going”

Hailed by Vogue as “the most fabulous entrance in Met Gala history”, in May last year Billy Porter was carried on to the pink carpet by six shirtless Broadway hunks on a palanquin dressed as Cleopatra in a dazzling gold ensemble designed by The Blonds. Just three months earlier, Porter had shut down the red... Continue Reading →

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