There doesn’t seem to be a lot of options for Joey (Lolo Kirke) who has just graduated from high school in AWOL (★★★★), directed by Deb Shoval. Selling ice-creams at the local amusement park gives her some pocket money but this is a long way from fulfilling the ‘American Dream’ promised in all the good […]
Teenage Kicks | M | Dir: Craig Boreham | ★ ★ ★ ½ Australian queer cinema tends to land in one of two categories. It trends towards either the high camp of the Priscilla Queen of the Desert end of the spectrum or the gritty lo-fi turf occupied by movies like 1998’s Head On. Teenage Kicks and its tale of secrets, lies […]
The Queen of Ireland | Dir: Conor Horgan | Rated: PG | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When filmmaker Conor Horgan started making his crowd-funded documentary about Rory O’Neill and his drag queen alter-ego Panti Bliss five years ago, he could never have predicted that the ‘giant cartoon woman’ would change history. There’s some delightful home footage of a very […]
The WA AIDS Council are launching WA’s inaugural Queer International Film Festival next week and will be screening seven of the best LGBTIQ+ films from around the world at The Backlot Perth. Festival Director Mark Reid said he was on a mission to offer Perth audiences thought provoking cinema as he was developing the festival […]
Two years since taking the title of Next Drag Superstar on the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bianca Del Rio’s star continues to rise as she hits the big screen in her first feature film. Hurricane Bianca stars Roy Haylock as a gay teacher in Texas who loses his job thanks to some bigoted staff, […]
Lesbian filmmaker Jamie Babbit, known for her cult smash ‘But I’m A Cheerleader’, has reunited with Natasha Lyonne for an all new comedy. ‘Addicted To Fresno’ features ‘Arrested Development’ star Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne from ‘Orange is the New Black’ as sisters who get in a spot of hot water after one of them […]
London’s LGBT film festival BFI Flare has released a list of its top 30 queer films, placing 2015’s ‘Carol’ in the top spot. Todd Haynes’ love story based on the 1952 novel ‘The Price of Salt’ by Patricia Highsmith landed at the top of a poll of queer cinema, celebrating the festival’s 30th year. More […]
