The Cinesexuals

Dan Reed knew his film would shatter Michael Jackson’s reputation. But he didn’t expect so many death threats – or the superfans stalking his office

Big smile flashing and pencil-thin moustache quivering, subversive director John Waters laughs heartily as he looks back at an improbable 40-year career that made him a trash film icon. "Humour saved me, saved my life," the 73-year-old sharp-dresser told AFP on the sidelines of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where he was a guest of honour earlier this month. From a homemade horror stage in his garage, Waters went on to tear down barriers with transgressive fare such as "Eat Your Makeup", "Mondo Trasho", "Multiple Maniacs" and the scatological classic "Pink Flamingos" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

There is no better evocation of the transition to democracy in Spain than the cinema of Eloy de la Iglesia. Colegas feels like a Pre-Code Warners film: fast, filled with incident, speaking t…

A decade after the Oscar-winning success of The French Connection—maybe the definitive NYC cop movie?—William Friedkin returned to NYC cops with an edgy tale...

In his new column, playwright Justin McDevitt lends a queer eye to your favorite horror flicks.

The recent (2014) release of James Franco’s Interior. Leather Bar. reminds us it’s time to revisit the still-notorious film that inspired it. History shows us how easily yesterday’s cause celebre[...]

On fascism, homonationalism, and America

With horror being a respite for those who feel like outliers in society, it is no surprise filmmakers have turned to the genre when needing to communicate their emotions. Horror has importantly become a destination for contextualizing everything from personal fears to longstanding oppression. The LGBT+ community especially finds solace in horror — they identify […]

Tackling apartheid-era toxic white masculinity as a mixed race South African, filmmaker Oliver Hermanus rose to the challenge with his searing new feature Moffie, streaming on Curzon Home Cinema now. Olivia Neilson meets the director

How Ryan Murphy's dreamy movieland tale, and interest in telling the stories of the marginalized, is nothing but an illusion.

Oscar winners and indie darlings, here are twenty of the most influential and impactful queer and trans stories of the past decade.

There’s no exact precedent for the long creative collaboration between Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng. In 1991, as the story goes, Tsai stepped out of a screening of a David Lynch movie and spotted Lee sitting on a motorbike outside of an arcade.

The gay film festival circuit is ripe with excellent foreign films that prove queer stories don't have to skimp on quality.

You’ll say that the title is a little extravagant but that was the point. In fact, my idea was to make a list with good films. Some LGBT films have no...

Leilah Weinraub’s riveting Shakedown, resituated on Pornhub

“Why do you love movies so much?” Someone close to me recently asked me that. It was a question that I had thought about myself many times…

Peck, who has died aged 74, was a pioneer in Britain’s independent film scene of the 1970s and 80s, whose Nighthawks is a milestone in LGBTQIA+ cinema.

In my perfect world, we’d get a new short from Chucho E. Quintero every couple weeks, as long as they’re as fresh and funny as Panquecito.

There is a difference between making a film of sociopolitical and cultural value and making a film about important sociopolitical and cultural matters. In some cases the latter may beget the former, but it is not a given.

The movie spinoff series delves deeper into queer experience in a limited way

Five years after releasing our original "100 Best Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Films" list — we decided to double it (With 25 new updates for 2021!)

The director Levan Akin’s coming-of-age story about a traditional dancer had just a three-day run of screenings in Georgia, where it led to rioting, twenty-seven arrests, and one hospitalization.

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Producers of the ABC’s ‘Please Like Me’ have today accused the winner of the 89th Academy Award’s Best Picture, ‘Moonlight’, of plagiarising the life of Josh Thomas. Moonlight, which tells the morally and formally challenging story about a young gay black man journeying from bullied child to troubled teen to gangsta is ‘undeniably similar’ to […]

In 1977, Arthur J. Bressan Jr. was promoting his landmark documentary Gay USA (1977) on the gay-centered New York City television program Emerald City TV at the height of gay liberation. He dressed…

The new documentary ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ explores the surprising number of mincing, sibilant animated villains with a penchant for extravagant hats.

Charting an odyssey of classic gay erotica, from Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s "Passing Strangers" to Wakefield Poole's "Boys in the Sand."

A filmed version of the 2018 Broadway revival is just as bad on screen as it was on stage—maybe worse.

Many have speculated about this relationship. A new book about Grant looks at the evidence.

Uncle Arthur showed that being gay could be a scary good time.

“My goal was to make a film for the teenager I was,” says director François Ozon of his new picture Summer of 85, a love story based on Aidan Chambers’ 1982 novel Dance on My Grave