BFI Film Festival
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews THE MAN I LOVE the latest film from queer auteur IRA SACHS
Gay American independent filmmaker Ira Sachs may have detractors, although for those who follow his films, The Man I Love offers a seamless deepening of themes to follow on from Passages 2023 and Peter Hujar’s Day 2025. The setting is New York in the 1980’s and a world threatened by the AIDS/HIV virus. This is not, as some may claim, just another…
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Frank and Percy starring Brit acting royalty led by Ian McKellen and Roger Allam in an unmissable quintessential queer rom-com
Premiering at the BFI London Film Festival this week is one of the most wonderful quintessential British romantic comedies with a creme-de-la-creme cast that shows queer UK cinema at its very best. Frank and Percy is a British comedy-drama adapted from the critically acclaimed West End play of the same name. Its cast is an…
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Andrew Scott plays a therapist who gets very ‘hands on’ in ‘It Gets Worse’
We were so wrapped up in watching Andrew Scott’s Oscar-worthy performance starring in the highly anticipated Elsinore at the BFI Film Festival that we almost overlooked his other performance that weekend. The openly gay Irish actor Scott (Handsome Devil, “All of Us Strangers“) stars in It Gets Worse, playing a therapist opposite series creator and…
