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Handsome Devil

Alex Heeney / June 20, 2017

Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers

Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A Date for Mad Mary, In Between, and God’s Own Country.

Close-Knit

Elena Lazic / April 11, 2017

Review: Close-Knit marks an important milestone for Japanese LGBTQ cinema

Naoko Ogigami’s Close-Knit is a charming, if disappointingly conservative, family drama about a girl who finds herself being raised by a transgender woman.

Elena Lazic / March 1, 2017

Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale

Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving trangender woman who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning.

Closet Monster, Stephen Dunn

Alex Heeney / September 23, 2016

Director Stephen Dunn talks Closet Monster and internalized homophobia

Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney talked to Stephen Dunn about his directorial debut Closet Monster: why he wanted to tell this story, its magical realist elements, and how he got us inside Oscar’s head.

Women He's Undressed, Orry-Kelly

Laura Anne Harris / September 20, 2016

In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!

Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary, Women He’s Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind his historic costume designs.

Below Her Mouth

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2016

TIFF16: Below Her Mouth is cringeworthy

Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.

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