Étoile: Ballet grand jeté series missteps but still dazzles

If you are a fan of ballet, the new Amazon MGM Studios eight-episode series “Étoile" may or may not enchant you. The series creators, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino adore this art form; it's not a dance show, but a show about dancers.

Funding filmmakers: 2025 Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant Recipients

The short film, “A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian,” includes an impromptu bird funeral that changes the way a girl views herself, affirming her sapphic identity. It’s one of the 2025 Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant Recipients.

‘On Swift Horses’ – Handsome Jacob Elordi can’t save this frustratingly sluggish gallop

Dreams, desires, and secrets sum up the 1950s and the new uneven film, “On Swift Horses." This “epic” old-school style film strives to be a romance, a gambling story, domestic melodrama, even a hard-boiled film noir.

‘Isaac Julien: I Dream a World’ - de Young Museum’s Black queer visionary exhibition

Sir Isaac Julien's art is the subject of the first comprehensive retrospective survey in a U.S. museum setting, the largest exhibition focusing on his film, video, and photographic work, “Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,” at the de Young Museum.

Queer faves at SFFilm’s 68th festival

Returning to its traditional 11-day run after last year’s unsuccessful weekend marathon, the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival screens April 17-27, based mostly in the Marina, Presidio, and Mission neighborhoods, as well as in Berkeley.

‘A Nice Indian Boy’ - Jonathan Groff & Karan Soni in a charming gay rom-com

Director Roshan Sethi yearned for a big Indian wedding, a lavish and unashamed expression of love. “A Nice Indian Boy” is his fantasy fulfilled. It’s also his personal dream of family acceptance and belonging he’s yet to experience.

Felice Picano: Pioneering author & publisher leaves a literary legacy

Prolific author, publisher and editor Felice Picano died at his home in Los Angeles on March 12 of lymphoma. He was 81. Since then, numerous authors and people in the publishing industry had praised him and remarked on his generosity.

Lucy Sante's memoir, 'I Heard Her Call My Name'

Lucy Sante's memoir of transition (just published in paperback), is a cautionary tale on the perils of suppression and the joy of acceptance.

Oscar time: 2025 Academy Award predictions

As we approach the 97th Academy Awards, rather than the usual celebration of cinema, this has been one of the mean-spirited pre-Oscar seasons in decades, resulting in a potentially volatile Oscar race in several major categories.

'Bonus Track' - Engaging but formulaic teen liaison

"Bonus Track" is a reflection of Netflix's game-changing "Heartstopper" series, also has great affection for its two central characters with sweetness and warmth, coupled with its authenticity.

'Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out' New expansive biography shares the author's full life

The acclaimed gay author of "Goodbye Berlin," the basis for the musical "Cabaret," and other books, is the subject of the new magisterial biography, "Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out," written by novelist Katherine Bucknell.

'I'm Still Here' - Relevant, heartfelt drama on dictatorship's malevolence

Shortlisted as Brazil's nominee in the Oscar Best International Feature category, this intense, personal, political film, is directed by veteran Walter Salles, and based on true events that occurred in 1971.

'The Last Showgirl' - Pamela Anderson's Vegas tour de force

What stays in Vegas? 57-year-old model, sex symbol, reality star, diva punchline Pamela Anderson delivers a performance of a lifetime in director Gia Coppola's "The Last Showgirl."

'The Room Next Door' - Pedro Almodóvar's latest film's stylistically austere

Considered Spain's greatest living film director, and one of the world's foremost queer auteurs, Pedro Almodóvar has made his first full-length English language film, the assisted dying-themed "The Room Next Door."

Sizzling cinema - Best LGBTQ films of 2024

As far as 2024's LGBTQ films, it's been a slightly above average year, with streaming platforms, indie projects, and international cinema the source of almost all queer movies, including narrative features than documentaries. Here are our top ten.

'Elton John: Never Too Late' - Documentary charts the gay musician's life, generously

Elton John recently recognized it was time to quit performing live, and ended 50 years of entertaining in North America in 2022. His farewell tour is the subject of a new conventional documentary, "Elton John: Never Too Late," streaming on Disney Plus.

'Queer' - Daniel Craig stars in a mystifying sex and drug fantasia

Gay Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's phantasmagorical kaleidoscopic rumination on gay obsessive desire, A 24's "Queer," based on Beat-era author William Burroughs' novella, has just been released.

Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' - A gay odyssey toward happiness complicated by racism

Probably England's finest prose stylist, in his latest book Alan Hollinghurst has created an elegy, a reminiscence on gay life from the 1960s to the present, but through the lens of class and race as it impacts on art and sexuality.

'Martha,' my dear - Documentary on Martha Stewart shows a homemaker's renovation still in progress

The new Netflix documentary "Martha" tries to reconcile the visionary Martha Stewart, "who made the world a more beautiful place and democratized fashion, taste, and style," with her unlikable, controlling, contradictory, perfectionistic reputation.

'Conclave' - a papal election to rival our own

Edmund Berger's compelling film "Conclave" poses the question, "Can we still believe in this flawed institution, the church?" while knowing the machinations of its inner workings.

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