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 […]
Tags: a date for mad mary, AWOL, cinema, darren thornton, deb shoval, Film, it's not just me, jonathan messer, queer cinema, revelation film fest, transgender
27 Jun 2017 /
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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 […]
Tags: cinema, craig boreham, Film, Head On, Priscilla, queer cinema, teenage kicks
15 Jun 2017 |
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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 […]
Tags: big love, captain fantastic, conor horgan, girl asleep, Italian Film Festival, maria sole tognazzi, matt ross, me myself and her, Panti Bliss, Queen of Ireland, queer cinema, queer film, rosemary myers, viggo mortensen
9 Sep 2016 |
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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 […]
Tags: backlot perth, boys, cinema, Film, jonathan, Mark Reid, queer cinema, queer international film festival, those people, WA AIDS, WA AIDS Council, WAAC, while you weren't looking
1 Sep 2016 |
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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, […]
Tags: Alan Cumming, Alyssa Edwards, Bianca Del Rio, cinema, Film, hurricane bianca, lgbt cinema, Margaret Cho, queer cinema, rachel dratch, roy haylock, RuPaul, Shangela, willam
25 Aug 2016 |
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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 […]
Tags: addicted to fresno, but i'm a cheerleader, Film, jamie babbit, judy greer, natasha lyonne, queer cinema
6 Apr 2016 |
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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 […]
Tags: Andrew Haigh, BFI, carol, Film, Gus Van Sant, happy together, my own private idaho, paris is burning, queer cinema, wong kar-wai
21 Mar 2016 |
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