The Cinesexuals

Filmmaker Dan Hall accidentally found himself in contact with more than a hundred queer people in Afghanistan living under Taliban rule. He shares some of their stories in a powerful new film.

A lot of films feature LGBTQ themes and characters, but for every "Call Me By Your Name" and "Brokeback Mountain," there is a movie like "Boat Trip."

While there are some excellently-made LGBTQ movies, not all of them are the sort of uplifting films that queer people need when we're struggling with our sexuality or gayness.

"Empire" creator Lee Daniels told Insider that he was the original director of "Brokeback Mountain," but couldn't get the film made as "nobody wanted to see the movie."

Any movie from Mexican auteur Julián Hernández should be met with celebration and gratitude. But The Day Began Yesterday is exceptionally good.

"Brokeback Mountain" is revered as the quintessential queer movie, and is many people's go-to film when asked about their favourite LGBT movies.

There are two movies at war with each other inside Uncle Frank.

A heartfelt performance from the British actor elevates an otherwise trite and frustrating story about an alcoholic gay professor in the 1970s

With the release of a quartet of LGBT-centred films, from Ammonite to Supernova, queer filmmaking hits a purple patch. But there's still something missing

In this time of posting and tagging and filtering, the idea of filming live dance, filming life itself as dance, and choreographing and documenting various segments of the cultural underground, all seem like a vital part of artistic production. But back in the early ’70s, Charles Atlas pioneered an entirely new film practice by using the language and movement of contemporary dance and performance.

Directed by Terrance Daye, “-Ship: A Visual Poem” took home the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

From Gus Van Sant to Maryam Keshavarz, Terence Davies to Andrew Haigh, film-makers and writers recall the charged scenes that moved and inspired them – and even helped nudge them out of the closet

Perhaps this won’t be new information to some readers, but apparently the World Trade Center has quite the cruising history.

Maybe we’re still basking in the true love story that was WandaVision, but Disney+’s new Marvel show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has us thinking about heroes kissing. Again.

“Do you prefer shagging men or women?”, Hedi asks Iva as they both lie on her floor mattress, Hedi smoking, Iva on her front clutching the sheets beneath her. “It’s all the same,” responds Iva. Then, after a pause, “when love strikes.”

The star of A Better Tomorrow and Days of Being Wild rose to prominence alongside Anita Mui, Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau in the golden age of Canto-pop His role in Farewell My Concubine changed the West’s view of Chinese-language cinema and remains one of three Hong Kong films to ever be nominated for an Oscar

Rumor has it Eartha Kitt had a threesome with the handsome actors. She once said: “That time back in my dance studio ranks as one of the most celestial experiences of my life. Those two beauties transported me to heaven. I never knew that lovemaking could be so beautiful.”

This afternoon at Sundance, I took a break from binging movies to watch a panel straight out of my queer film nerd dreams. If you’re familiar with New Queer Cinema and if names like Isaac Julien and Tom Kalin excite you as much as they excite me, then I’d say skip this summary and just watch the panel yourself. But if you don’t have an hour to spare or don’t know about this movement or these people, then read on! My enthusiasm is endless and I would love to share it with you.

B. Ruby Rich and other LGBTQ+ titans gather 30 years after their original 1992 Festival talk to look back and imagine forward. Guests include B. Ruby Rich, Andrew Ahn, Gregg Araki, Lisa Cholodenko, Cheryl Dunye, Silas Howard, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, and Rose Troche.

His father's journals detail when he realized he was gay.

LGBTQ publications have been grappling with representation in Hollywood for decades: read some of the most insightful reviews of LGBTQ cinema's most seminal movies.

To mark Pride 2020, The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critics chose 10 standout LGBTQ-themed movies that have largely fallen through the cracks and seem ripe for wider discovery.

Writer-director Samuel Van Grinsven’s seductive, visually striking debut feature, Sequin in a Blue is the compelling story of Sequin (Conor Leach) a gay teenager exploring his burgeoning sexuality in the digital age, who is obsessed with an anonymous hookup app and the no-strings encounters he arranges through it.

Filmed depictions of judgment-free gay-male sex are still rare. This list celebrates a few good examples of hot sex between men shot without apology.

Of the few dozen LGBTQ films in the history of Taiwanese cinema, Liu’s has been the most successful at the box office—Your Name Engraved Herein, which premieres globally on Netflix Dec. 23, is Taiwan’s highest-grossing LGBTQ-themed movie of all time. Earlier in December, the movie surpassed NT$100M (around US$3.5M) and is one of only two domestic films to reach this marker in 2020.

From heartthrob to icon of edginess, the actor had an extraordinary career. On the centenary of his birth, Sophie Monks Kaufman wonders if we will see so daring a leading man again.