Exclusive Interview: Mike Taveira on his pansexual pop anthem Curious

Mike Taveira releases his new pansexual pop anthem Curious today along with the official music video featuring RuPaul's Drag Race's Monét X Change and Sonique, model Arisce Wanzer and George Todd McLachlan from Showtime's Shameless. Taveira released his debut single Heart last year, which landed on Billboard Pride's Queer Necessities playlist and quickly racked up over 100 thousand streams. Growing up without any openly pansexual figures... Continue Reading →

February 20, 2020 0

Exclusive Interview: And Then We Danced filmmaker Levan Akin

Following its world premiere at Cannes in 2019 writer/director Levan Akin's gay coming of age drama And Then We Danced went on to enjoy a hugely successful international festival run, including showings at last month's Sundance, picking up awards in cities such as Chicago, New York and Montréal. The premiere in Tbilisi, Georgia, where the... Continue Reading →

February 8, 2020 0

Exclusive Sundance 2020 Interview: Buck Filmmakers Elegance Bratton & Jovan James

From Sundance 2020, The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann spoke exclusively with filmmakers Elegance Bratton and Jovan James about their beautiful short film Buck which had its world premiere at the festival on Sunday night. Partly inspired by the deaths of two young black men under suspicious circumstances in Los Angeles, Buck follows a young... Continue Reading →

January 29, 2020 1

MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Weekend at Anthology Film Archives Nov 23-24th

This weekend in New York, MIX NYC presents a weekend of Queer Experimental Film Programming at Anthology Film Archives over two evenings. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23rd: Program One: 7:15-8:30pm “Within There Runs Blood” presented by Eve Oishi and Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz This program represents the vision of two curators whose careers span twenty-five years, beginning with a... Continue Reading →

November 23, 2019 0

Film Review: Cubby ★★1/2

Mark Blane's semi-autobiographical New York fantasia Cubby toured film festivals this summer, playing at events like OutFest in LA, Frameline in San Francisco, New York's NewFest and Reeling Film Festival in Chicago, among others. It's a film that seems tailor-made for festivals -- quirky, strange, shot on 16mm film, a bit clunky, with subject matter that was never... Continue Reading →

November 3, 2019 0

Tom of Finland Foundation in New York 19 – 22nd September at MOMA PS1 & No Bar

Our friends at the Tom of Finland Foundation are going to be in New York this weekend for the Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair from today Thursday 19th through Sunday 22nd September. This weekend’s New York Art Book Fair is at MOMA PS-1 at 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. ToFF... Continue Reading →

September 19, 2019 0

New York Comic Con Queer Cabaret We The Heroes Ball – The Queer Review Meets event creator Akira AK

Ahead of this year’s NYCC, which comes to town 3rd - 6th October and is set to fill midtown with cosplayers, The Queer Review’s James Kleinmann sat down with Akira AK, creator of the LGBTQ+ cabaret event We The Heroes Ball to tell us more... We The Heroes Ball event poster. James Kleinmann: We The... Continue Reading →

September 16, 2019 0

MUNA Saves the World Live Review: ★★★★★ Album Review: ★★★★★

Dusk burnishes a blur of glass and metal high-rises as I hurtle through East London on the overground train. I’m curiously scanning the faces of strangers illuminated by the ghoulish, blue light of their smartphones, each one immersed in a digital universe of their own. A squat, middle-aged man sitting next to me in an... Continue Reading →

September 15, 2019 0

Film Review: The Shiny Shrimps (Les Crevettes pailletees) ★★★★

A smash hit in its native France, The Shiny Shrimps (Les Crevettes pailletees) is getting a wide release in the UK. What starts off as a silly, slight comedy proves to have a lot more heart and joy than expected. When a professional swimmer, Mattias Le Gof, uses a homophobic slur in a TV interview... Continue Reading →

September 9, 2019 0

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