Neil Patrick Harris is a very interesting figure: a child star turned adult award-winner whose openness about being gay hasn’t hurt his mainstream success; in fact, he just played that ultimate outsider Hedwig on Broadway and Joe and Joan Six-Pack seem to love him all the more for it. In addition to his well-established love of musical theatre – which […]
This review of Pride, released today in the UK, appears in the October 2014 issue of Sight & Sound. I recently argued in the Guardian that LGBT cinema is currently undergoing something of a ‘backward turn’: an increasingly sizeable body of work has emerged over recent years comprising films that could be considered retrospective in […]
The BFI renewed its commitment to LGBT and queer film in March with the rebranding of the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival as BFI Flare. But LGBT film fans won’t have to wait for Flare 2015 for another sizeable crop of cinematic fun under the BFI banner: next month’s London Film Festival is positively bulging […]
An interview with the writer, director and performer John Cameron Mitchell, of Shortbus and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, about the London debut of his club night Mattachine and more
At the end of Back to the Future, our hero crashes his time-travelling car into a building. It used to be a cinema but now it’s a church. That seems right. In a way, certain kinds of movie, including Back to the Future, are morphing into religions, offering us opportunities to be together and happy – though […]
A report on the inaugural Not Television festival at Chelsea Theatre, a weekend of shows involving collaboration between performers and audience members and the special atmosphere that resulted
