Tagged Queer Cinema

This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of our LFF coverage. Time and time again, across history and across societies, homophobia and its violence has always been upheld by the law. In...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. “You’re back on the dick,” a friend of Ben’s shrewdly observes minutes into their coffee date. She’s...

“Do you want to hear about the other kid we lost? We had a little girl named Angela, she was quite the character…”, says Angelo’s dad as his son sits in front of him, camera in hand, as he attempts to...

End of the Century is defined by ruptures: in sound, in time, in mode. The first 10 minutes or so are dialogue-free as we follow Ocho (Juan Barberini) through Barcelona, the camera unobtrusively panning with...

In Deep Impact/Armageddon tradition, Joel Edgerton’s sophomore directing effort is the second film about young people subjected to gay conversion therapy released in a matter of months. As such, Boy Erased...

Grandma is an excellent film, featuring an equally excellent performance from the hilarious and hell-raising Lily Tomlin in the titular role. As her pregnant teenage granddaughter Sage, Julia Garner makes a...

Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...

Desiree Akhavan’s near-autonomous feature debut brings honest edge to well-travelled ground. Though tonal comparisons to both Girls and Frances Ha are easily made throughout, Akhavan’s acute sense of...