Film
Queer Aussie feature ‘Teenage Kicks’ kicking it on Netflix
Acclaimed indie feature Teenage Kicks just dropped on Netflix. The queer Aussie film stars Miles Szanto as a young man journeying through the minefield of adolescence. Teenage Kicks comes from filmmaking team, writer/director Craig Boreham and producer Annmaree J Bell. Miklos Varga is played by young up and coming actor Miles Szanto. In the film, …
Boldly Go: great storytelling in just five and a half minutes
Five minutes and thirty-three seconds doesn’t seem much time in which to tell a story. However, Christopher Cosgrove shows how to pack a lot into a few minutes in his short film Boldly Go. Boldly Go showed earlier this year at the 21st Brisbane Queer Film Festival after a screening at the 72nd Festival de …
End of the Century: Argentinian Lucio Castro’s romantic drama
An almost documentary-like drama that manipulates time and memory, End of the Century takes an otherwise straightforward narrative and morphs it into something far more emotionally evocative. Following an opening ten minutes devoid of dialogue, Argentinian director Lucio Castro’s beautifully timed film focuses on Ocho (Juan Barberini). The New York-based poet arrived in Barcelona to …
Firebombed ‘Gay Jesus’ filmmakers return for Christmas 2020
The firebombed ‘Gay Jesus’ filmmakers of Christmas 2019 return for Christmas 2020 with a new film. This year, the members of Porta dos Fundo decided to parody the response to last year’s The First Temptation of Christ. Scroll down for vid Following the release of the Brazilian troupe’s film on Netflix in 2019, the backlash …
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair redo Cruel Intentions kiss for 2020
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair put a 2020 spin on their iconic kiss from teen drama Cruel Intentions. This week, the actresses received the Legendary Lip Lock prize during MTV’s Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time show for their kiss. While accepting the gong, the two actresses recreated the kiss at home …
Gay man Thomas Banks is on a quest for love in new Stan doco
Award-winning local documentary Thomas Banks’ Quest For Love, following a gay man with a disability, is streaming soon on Stan. The documentary follows Thomas himself – a charismatic Melbourne writer and professional speaker who has cerebral palsy – on his years-long search for a man to fall in love with. Created over six years, the …
Meryl Streep camps it up in Netflix’s epic lesbian musical ‘The Prom’
Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for upcoming epic lesbian musical The Prom, directed by Ryan Murphy and featuring an all-star cast. Murphy has adapted the film from the original Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. In the film, Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Andrew Rannells play self-absorbed Broadway actors who head to small-town Indiana …
Gay hookup thriller Sequin in a Blue Room comes to streaming
A gay teenager’s hookup obsession sends him on a dangerous path in the Australian queer film Sequin in a Blue Room, coming to streaming this week. The film follows a 16-year-old student (played by newcomer Conor Leach) who pursues no-strings-attached sex on fictional hookup app Anon. The teenager communicates under his alias Sequin, from the …
WATCH: True story that inspired new gay drama ‘Uncle Frank’
Director Alan Ball and actor Paul Bettany reimagine their own family histories in new movie Uncle Frank, about a closeted gay man coming out in the 1970s. True Blood and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, who is gay, wrote and directed the new film, which takes place in 1973. Teenager Beth leaves her rural …
WATCH: Australia’s own teen lesbian rom-com is coming to cinemas
Heartfelt and hilarious Australian lesbian rom-com Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) is opening in Australian cinemas this month. The queer film sees school captain Ellie fall for rebellious classmate Abbie. However teen awkwardness and angst get in the way of her plan to ask Abbie to the year 12 formal. Then, Ellie is …