Fri 16 Oct

In an inspired double bill, two John Waters classics, 1977’s delectably filthy Desperate Living and 1988’s surprisingly heartwarming Hairspray, have now been added to the Criterion Coll…

Brazilian-Italian writer-director duo Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon made their feature debut in 2015 with the queer coming-of-age drama Seashore (Beira-Mar) which premiered at the Berlinale…

Fri 27 Mar

New York City’s queer prince of indie electro pop, Bright Light Bright Light, aka Rod Thomas, is about to embark on the 17-date Cosmic Light North American tour with Queen of the Universe win…

Fri 20 Mar

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 Skarsgård dominating red carpets around the glo…

ALT: a woman in a wig is asking how about a kiss santie claus

Presented by The Queer Review! Tuesday, December 23 at 9:15: In-person introduction by The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann with electronic pop musician Bright Light Bright Light Special recorded...

Presented by The Queer Review! Tuesday, December 23 at 9:00: In-person introduction by The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann with electronic pop musician Bright Light Bright Light Special recorded...

At the 20th Pornfilm Festival Berlin, Todd Verow—one of America's most fascinating filmmakers—premiered BEHIND THE OPEN DOOR: an unflinching dive into cum dumping, filmed with radical respect.

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring a...

English girl rock singer breaks into show business and works her way to the top, becoming a superstar, but finds that it isn’t enough. Staff Pick by Todd Verow, Assistant Manager Screening as part of ...

As an 18-year-old newly arrived in New York City, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Zackary Drucker encountered a photograph of European disco icon Amanda Lear and—like so many before her, including David B…

As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. He captured many of them on camera, but the films are disintegrating and fading away just like his memor...

A lifetime of sexual encounters is celebrated in this art-porn odyssey, inspired by the late Charles Lum’s cruising diaries.

A lifetime of sexual encounters is celebrated in this art-porn odyssey, inspired by the late Charles Lum’s cruising diaries.

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American filmmaker discusses unreliable memories, little mementos, pornography and "real sex", making films "a little dirty, a little faded, a little scratched", working with non-professionals, and mu...

Dying old man looks over his pornographic adventures in the hope of discovering meaning, while inviting audiences to join in - from BFI Flare

Rabbit Rabbit. Welcome to the March (hare) edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City, Los Angeles, London and beyond. Stay…

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YouTube video by BFI

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 L…

39 years ago German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber created an award for LGBTQ+ films at the Berlin International Film Festival as a way of acknowledging and rewarding queer films an…

39 years ago German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber created an award for LGBTQ+ films at the Berlin International Film Festival as a way of acknowledging and rewarding queer films an…

The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

How do LGBTQ+ critics help queer films find queer audiences? How can audiences connect with independent queer films? This and more in the latest Rotten Tomatoes Lab: Critics Edition.

The Queer Review, founded and edited by James Kleinmann, is proud to be among the nominees in the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards which have just been announced. In this year’s awards, the cat…

With Luca Guadagnino’s intoxicating 1950s Mexico City-set feature Queer, based on the cult novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs, now playing in US theaters nationwide from A24, writ…