Tag: Queer
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By Samuel Leary THE EVENT On January 27th, I was lucky enough to attend Dead Duck Film Club’s screening of Park Chan-Wook’s beloved modern classic, The Handmaiden (2016), at Savoy Cinema in Nottingham. Following their Dead Duck Cult Film Festival in November (for which I previously wrote an article ) and a screening of Let…
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by ‘K’ In 1955, a queer-coded thriller pierced the French cinema landscape, appearing in the horizon as a tower of layered anxieties and deceit. Tensions of different kinds vertically stack up like bricks: conspiratorial, romantic, psychosexual. Some anxieties boil over a dead body that can’t be found, and others burn between living bodies that never…
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By Marnah Lissiley On the 24th of November, I attended the Queer Horror Film Festival ‘Out for Blood’, a dedicated effort of horror cinema centered around the queer community and a DIY labour of love spanning the cities of Cambridge and Leeds. I was invited to attend this year’s Leeds Festival, at The Attic. Sam…
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This year, one of cinema’s greatest cult classics turned 30. Brighton based pop-up White Wall Cinema projects the new 4K release, prompting fascinating reflections on the film’s legacy, and enduring appeal.
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by Samuel Leary On November 1st, I had the pleasure of attending the Dead Duck Film Festival at Savoy Cinema in Nottingham. The festival was organised and hosted by Nottingham’s own Dead Duck Film Club, an incredible collective of amazing people with a passion for all things film. They have made quite the splash on…
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Transbians rejoice! Alice Maio Mackay returns with a witchy, lesbian romance, a treat for queer folk and horror fans alike!
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R.S. Benedict wrote in 2021 that ‘everyone is beautiful, but no one is horny’ – and we kind of take that personally. We are Rosemary Stillborn and AJ Bravo, perverts, thrill-seekers and hosts of ‘Preaching to the Perverted’, the podcast for freaks and filmophiles. We devote ourselves to not just finding the hottest, dirtiest, and…
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Interview by Megan Hilborne When I was in my last year at university in 2020 studying film, I decided to write my dissertation on Sean Baker’s (then) sex work trilogy. These were Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015) and The Florida Project (2017). I took a particular interest in how he exhibits the subcultures and hidden communities…
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By Ros Tibbs One thing I have noticed after being a film lover since childhood is that American cinema, which unarguably controls Western ideals of moviemaking, is conventionally defined by everything and anything grand, expensive and intense. Features from the medium’s biggest studio powerhouses are designed to captivate audiences and their pockets by exploding, quite…
