Film
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play couple dealing with dementia in ‘Supernova’
Highly anticipated gay drama Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as long-term partners, is in Australian cinemas this week. The film follows Tusker (Tucci) and Sam (Firth) as they travel across country in an old RV visiting old friends and places from their past. The couple make the road trip after Tusker receives an …
Kate Winslet knows ‘at least four’ gay actors afraid to come out
Kate Winslet said she sadly knows of gay actors in Hollywood hiding their sexuality out of fear they won’t get cast in straight roles. The actress revealed she knows at least four actors who are fearful of coming out in part due to persistent stigma in the film industry. “I cannot tell you the number …
Australian lesbian love story ‘My First Summer’ comes to streaming
My First Summer, a new home-grown queer coming-of-age drama, has arrived on Australian streaming service Stan this week. In the film, 16-year-old Claudia has grown up in complete isolation with her unpredictable mother in their remote country home miles from the nearest town. After her mother dies by suicide, grief-stricken Claudia is left to survive …
Four great Mardi Gras Film Festival picks you can watch at home
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, starting this week, is allowing audiences across Australia to create their own festival experience with on-demand streaming options. This year’s festival features over 90 films to choose from, including a variety of shorts, documentaries, and narratives both heartbreaking and humorous. Cinema sessions and streaming options are on offer during …
Jacki Weaver’s queer comedy drama ‘Stage Mother’ comes to streaming
Actress Jacki Weaver trades the diocese for drag queens in the queer comedy drama Stage Mother, which just arrived on streaming service Stan. The Aussie Academy Award winner plays Maybelline, a Southern Baptist church choir director whose son, a gay San Francisco club owner, suddenly dies. After his death, she soon discovers her son’s struggling …
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 …