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Exclusive Interview: Sapphira Cristál on RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 "I feel like I truly did turn it out"

Sapphira Cristál’s impressive run on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 saw her make it all the way to Friday night’s grand finale and a final lipsync battle to Kylie Minogue’s Padam Padam” against Nymphia Wind. While Wind was named America’s Next Drag Superstar by eight-time Emmy-winning host RuPaul, Sapphira Cristál was voted Miss Congeniality (in a tie with Xunami Muse) by her fellow season 16…

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thequeereview · 4 days

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Exclusive Interview: Mama, kudos to Plane Jane for saying that, for spilling about Drag Race 16

Plane Jane soared her way to the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16, which aired on MTV on Friday night, as one of the top three queens in the competition alongside Nymphia Wind and Sapphira Cristál. At MTV’s official Drag Race viewing party at The Edge in New York, Plane Jane spoke exclusively with The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann about her time on the Emmy-winning reality…

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thequeereview · 5 days

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Exclusive Interview: Nymphia Wind spills the (bubble) tea on her Drag Race 16 experience & that epic reveal

America’s Next Drag Superstar is…Nymphia Wind. Having made it to the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16—which aired on MTV on Friday night—alongside Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál, Nymphia eventually battled it out for the crown in a lipsync with Sapphira to Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam”. During the lipsync, Nymphia wowed viewers with an epic reveal which the Brooklyn-based queen tells…

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Exclusive Interview: Theda Hammel & John Early on Stress Positions "I'm talking about queerness in the way that I want to"

Following the short film My Trip to Spain, Theda Hammel and John Early continue their creative collaboration with the deliciously dark and hilarious 2020-set comedy feature Stress Positions, which world premiered at Sundance and was the closing night selection of MOMA’s New Directors/New Films festival. As well as writing and directing, Hammel also serves as editor and composer, and stars as…

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thequeereview · 13 days

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Exclusive Interview: The People's Joker filmmaker Vera Drew "these characters mean something to me on a religious level"

Stop the press! Who is that? It’s filmmaker Vera Drew whose feature directorial debut, The People’s Joker—which she also co-wrote (with Bri LeRose), edited, and stars in—is now playing in theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and rolling out to select theaters across the United States and Canada. Following its world premiere screening in the Midnight Madness section at the 2022 Toronto International…

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thequeereview · 22 days

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Exclusive Interview: Chucky creator Don Mancini "our aim is to give gay teenage horror fans characters they can identify with"

Along with delivering deliciously dark humour, gore, mayhem, and a reliably high body count, the terrifically entertaining Chucky the series—now in its third season on USA and SYFY—has been warming the hearts of horror fans with a tender queer romance at the heart of show. Zackary Arthur stars as Jake and Björgvin Arnarson stars as Devon, the teen heroes—and romantic couple—facing off the…

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thequeereview · 26 days

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Film Review: The People's Joker ★★★★★

Wait till you get a load of this… After making its world premiere back in September 2022 in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival, Vera Drew’s thrillingly irreverent trans comic book coming-of-age movie The People’s Joker finally gets a North American theatrical release from Altered Innocence beginning Friday, April 5th in New York. While many films might not be…

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thequeereview · 28 days

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Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later to premiere on Showtime March 30th

Ahead of International Transgender Day of Visibility (Sunday, March 31st) Daniel Peddle’s Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later, the follow-up to his groundbreaking 2005 documentary The Aggressives, makes its streaming debut on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME on Saturday, March 30th and premieres on air that day at 9pm ET/PT on SHOWTIME. Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later | Official Trailer |…

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thequeereview · 29 days

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Sacha Polak & star Vicky Knight on Teddy Award-winning queer drama Silver Haze

Filmmaker Sacha Polak and actress Vicky Knight first collaborated on the acclaimed feature Dirty God about an acid attack survivor, which world premiered at Sundance in 2019 and saw Knight named a Breakthrough Brit by BAFTA and receive both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer nominations at that year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Silver Haze, which won Knight the Teddy Jury Award…

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thequeereview · 1 month

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Exclusive Interview: Young Royals showrunner Lisa Ambjörn on bidding an emotional farewell to the hit Netflix series "I feel so blessed to have been part of this"

Lisa Ambjörn is the co-creator, showrunner, head writer, and executive producer of the hit Netflix series Young Royals starring Edvin Ryding and Omar Rudberg which centres on the tumultuous romance of a 16-year-old Swedish prince, Wilhelm (Ryding), who falls in love with a working class fellow teenager, Simon (Rudberg). With the third and final season now streaming on Netflix, bidding farewell to…

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Fellow Travelers, Drag Race & Monica among winners at 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Los Angeles - Oprah Winfrey & Niecy Nash-Betts honoured

Last night in Los Angeles, GLAAD—the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization—announced recipients for 16 of this year’s 33 categories for the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Honouree Oprah Winfrey received the Vanguard Award, introduced by long-time friends, iconic Chicago performer Chilli Pepper and celebrity host Paolo Presta, and Niecy Nash-Betts received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award,…

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thequeereview · 2 months

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Exclusive Interview: Bryan Terrell Clark on making his Carnegie Hall debut & his queer role in Diarra From Detriot on BET+ "I'm living inside of an answered prayer"

“I’m living inside of an answered prayer”, Bryan Terrell Clark shares with The Queer Review about landing his upcoming role as gay Earth science teacher Mr. Tea, the “truth-telling” best friend of the title character in Diarra From Detroit, a gripping dark comedy mystery series created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick, which debuts on BET+ on Thursday, March 21st. Ahead of that, Clark will be…

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thequeereview · 2 months

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Exclusive Interview: performance artist Krishna Istha on Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda Netflix special "I realized what I was doing was actually stand-up comedy"

London-based performance artist, writer, comedian, and theatre maker Krishna Istha first became interested in stand-up comedy when they saw Zoë Coombs Marr and Hannah Gadsby perform live. Seeing them in action “changed my perspective of what stand-up was and who it is for” recalls Istha, who is part of a lineup of seven genderqueer comedians—including Jes Tom and Mx. Dahlia Belle—in Hannah…

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Exclusive Interview: stand-up comic Jes Tom on Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda Netflix comedy special - "I am your new queer best frenemy"

New York stand-up comic, writer, and actor Jes Tom follows a sell-out Off-Broadway run of their acclaimed solo show Less Lonely (presented by their friend Elliot Page) with a hilarious set as part of a lineup of seven genderqueer comedians in Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda. The comedy special, which was shot at London’s iconic Alexandra Palace last year, launched on Netflix this week. Named by…

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thequeereview · 2 months

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All About My Mother - Theatre Review: The Seven Year Disappear (Pershing Square Signature Center, New York) ★★★1/2

Cynthia Nixon is magnificent in The New Group’s Off-Broadway world premiere production of Jordan Seavey’s intriguingly meta play The Seven Year Disappear running at The Pershing Square Signature Center through March 31st. Outside the Signature’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, there is an overview of the career of fictional mononymous performance artist Miriam (Nixon). The description does not…

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thequeereview · 2 months

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Exclusive Interview: stand-up comedian Mx. Dahlia Belle on Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda Netflix special "I've never met anyone as sensitive as a straight dude - they'll cry over anything!"

Portland, Oregon based stand-up comedian Mx. Dahlia Belle is one of the standout performers in an exciting lineup of seven genderqueer comics in Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda, curated and hosted by Gadsby, shot at London’s iconic Alexandra Palace last year. In October 2021, Belle wrote an open letter published in The Guardian to one of the comedy heroes of her youth entitled, “Dear Dave…

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Film Review: Problemista ★★★★

Multiple Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres first caught my attention as an actor with his absorbingly understated supporting turns in comedies on film and television such as The Other Two, Together Together, Shrill, Search Party, and more recently a characterful voice performance that further queered the animated movie Nimona. Making those roles his own, all of those…

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