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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 hours ago

Naked puppets! Having sex! Lusty, foul-mouthed musical Avenue Q is back

Avenue Q is revived to celebrate its 20th anniversary, addressing real-world issues with humor and puppetry for a new generation.
Film
fromThe Bold Italic
18 hours ago

Tosca Musk made a movie about sex in San Francisco. It's exactly as weird as it sounds.

Wallbanger is a low-budget romantic film directed by Tosca Musk, available on the niche streaming service Passionflix.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 days ago

Drag queen: 'I'll be bringing joy on marathon day'

My grandma was my biggest cheerleader to get to do this for her and to raise awareness and to help find a cure is just the most incredible feeling.
London politics
Independent films
fromInverse
3 days ago

60 Years Ago, Two Bizarre Horror-Westerns Kicked Off A Hybrid Genre

Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter are poorly made films that contributed to the horror Western genre.
NYC LGBT
fromAol
1 week ago

Cunning Stunt Takes Manhattan: Introducing Club Cumming's Breakout Drag King

Club Cumming is a unique, inclusive space for drag kings, fostering a family-like environment and visibility for the art form in Manhattan.
#queer-cinema
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fromQueerty
1 week ago

This Easter weekend, watch sexuality & spirituality collide in this campy melodrama about naughty nuns - Queerty

Outside The Walls explores the intersection of faith and queerness through a lesbian love story set in a convent during the Spanish Inquisition.
Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

Why iconic horror 'Bride Of Frankenstein' is an electrifying queer classic - Queerty

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is a seminal queer horror classic exploring otherness through the monster's perspective, resonating with LGBTQ+ audiences who identify with societal outsiders.
Film
fromQueerty
1 week ago

This Easter weekend, watch sexuality & spirituality collide in this campy melodrama about naughty nuns - Queerty

Outside The Walls explores the intersection of faith and queerness through a lesbian love story set in a convent during the Spanish Inquisition.
Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

Why iconic horror 'Bride Of Frankenstein' is an electrifying queer classic - Queerty

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is a seminal queer horror classic exploring otherness through the monster's perspective, resonating with LGBTQ+ audiences who identify with societal outsiders.
Film
fromThe Independent
1 week ago

Disgusting, depraved, Divine: How did the trashiest films ever end up at the BFI?

John Waters' film 'Cecil B DeMented' defends trash cinema, a genre that challenges conventional norms of sexuality, gender, and morality.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Slither review James Gunn's Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot for reputational glow-up

James Gunn's 2006 film Slither is a grotesque body horror that failed commercially but is now being re-evaluated despite its flaws.
fromQueerty
2 weeks ago

Luke Evans serves sweet transvestite in fishnets & thigh-highs in The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Queerty

"A lot of people who know me, or think they know me, and have seen me play these big hero macho roles-gun toting, tank driving, dragon killing characters-are now going to see me in a very, very different role that no one will expect."
SF LGBT
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'Forbidden Fruits' Is The Campy Gorefest Teen Girls Have Been Waiting For

Forbidden Fruits is part of a burgeoning subgenre of horror movies that engage specifically with femininity and feminine aesthetics, dubbed 'girl horror' in a recent article in Rue Morgue magazine.
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Independent films
fromInverse
1 week ago

'Faces of Death' Will Make You Feel Like You Need a Shower - And That's a Good Thing

The reboot of Faces of Death critiques society's desensitization to violence through a fictional narrative about content moderation.
London music
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

Secret Cinema is bringing 'Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical' back to London

Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical returns to Battersea Park this summer after last year's successful run.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Carnivale revisited: is this HBO's strangest show?

Carnivale, an HBO series cancelled after two seasons, follows a carnival traveling through 1930s America while weaving parallel stories of a mysterious ex-con and a visionary preacher destined to collide in cosmic conflict.
Film
fromQueerty
1 week ago

WATCH: This shocking camboy drama pushes queer cinema into provocative new territory - Queerty

Blue Film is a provocative camboy drama exploring taboo subjects and complex human relationships between a sex worker and his former teacher.
NYC LGBT
fromThe Bold Italic
3 weeks ago

Hunky Jesus Is Back, and Now He Has a Documentary

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Easter in the Park celebrates its 45th anniversary with the Hunky Jesus competition, drag performances, and live music in San Francisco's Mission Dolores Park as an act of queer defiance.
Film
fromAnOther
2 weeks ago

Six Subversive Gems From Cinema's Golden Era of Trash

John Waters' film Pink Flamingos exemplifies boundary-pushing cinema that challenges conventional expectations through shock value and grotesque elements.
#horror
fromInverse
3 weeks ago
Independent films

'Hokum' Is A Terrifying Contender For The Best Horror Movie Of The Year

Independent films
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

'Hokum' Is A Terrifying Contender For The Best Horror Movie Of The Year

Hokum effectively uses jump scares to enhance its chilling narrative, making it a standout horror film at SXSW.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Night Stage review public sex enthusiasm the key to extravagant and subversive erotic thriller

An erotic thriller from Brazil blends realism with bizarre elements, focusing on public sex and its implications for identity and desire.
NYC LGBT
fromQueerty
4 weeks ago

Back in the day, Rock Hudson got slicked down & greased up for this Oscars stunt - Queerty

In 1949, Rock Hudson posed as a gold-painted Mr. Oscar statuette at the Hollywood Press Photographers Ball, a publicity stunt orchestrated by his agent Henry Wilson to promote the rising actor before his major stardom in the 1950s.
#comedy
Film
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

A Who's-Who of Queer and Camp Culture Stars In New Disaster-Spoof Flick 'Stop! That! Train!'

A new comedy film featuring queer icons and camp culture is set to release on June 12.
Film
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago

A Who's-Who of Queer and Camp Culture Stars In New Disaster-Spoof Flick 'Stop! That! Train!'

A new comedy film featuring queer icons and camp culture is set to release on June 12.
NYC music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Beetlejuice' is back: Catch the hit musical in downtown San Jose

The musical Beetlejuice, based on Tim Burton's 1988 film, returns to San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts March 31-April 5, featuring creative Broadway songs and the story of a teenager encountering ghosts and a mischievous demon.
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Manic Street Creature at Kiln Theatre Review

Manic Street Creature is gig theatre in its purest form. Kirsty Patrick Ward (The Rat Trap) directs a story about a musician breaking onto the London scene, told as a musical set. Olivier Award-winner Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky's Edge) leads a tour-de-force about young love, creative ambition and mental health.
London music
Cancer
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Horror icon Bruce Campbell shares 'shocking' cancer diagnosis

Bruce Campbell diagnosed with treatable but incurable cancer; canceling public appearances and conventions to prioritize treatment while hoping to resume work by autumn.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Are There Any Celebrities Not Starring in the Rocky Horror Show Revival?

The upcoming Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show revealed its full cast today, and it is a who's who of who wants to crossdress. Along with the previously announced Luke Evans as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will return to Broadway for the first time since starring in 2016's SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical to play Janet. Her bland husband, Brad, will be played by Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw).
Arts
SF LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

The world's oldest active drag king has shaped the art form for decades. She's not slowing down. - LGBTQ Nation

El Daña, at 80 years old, is certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest performing drag king, with a career spanning from 1965 to present, including activism through the Imperial Court System.
Arts
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Rachel Dratch, Harvey Guillen, Juliette Lewis among cast for Broadway's Rocky Horror

The Rocky Horror Show returns to Broadway for the first time in 26 years with Luke Evans starring and Rachel Dratch as narrator among a confirmed cast.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Rob Zombie: The Great Satan

Upon going solo after White Zombie's breakup in the late '90s, the one-time noise-rock underdog became metal's demonoid phenom with 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe, a monster mosh of horror-themed industrial-metal that spawned the generational vampiric speedway anthem, "Dragula," along with several other Halloween playlist essentials.
Music
#cult-cinema
Independent films
fromianVisits
1 month ago

So bad it's legendary: Plan 9 from Outer Space gets a 35mm revival in London

The BFI Southbank celebrates deliberately provocative, low-budget cinema from the 1930s-1990s, featuring a restored 35mm print of Plan 9 from Outer Space and works by transgressive filmmakers like John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Daggers Inn review so-bad-it's-almost-good fright-flick could achieve cult status

Daggers Inn is an amateur film with unintentional hilarity, awkward performances, and bizarre creative choices that have earned it cult status comparable to The Room.
Independent films
fromianVisits
1 month ago

So bad it's legendary: Plan 9 from Outer Space gets a 35mm revival in London

The BFI Southbank celebrates deliberately provocative, low-budget cinema from the 1930s-1990s, featuring a restored 35mm print of Plan 9 from Outer Space and works by transgressive filmmakers like John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Daggers Inn review so-bad-it's-almost-good fright-flick could achieve cult status

Daggers Inn is an amateur film with unintentional hilarity, awkward performances, and bizarre creative choices that have earned it cult status comparable to The Room.
fromQueerty
2 months ago

Queerty's 2026 Sundance Recap: Sex, scares & chaos in Park City - Queerty

Another Sundance Film Festival has come & gone, but this time, as the red carpets get rolled up and we put our snow boots back in storage, we're also saying goodbye to Park City, Utah, the fest's historic home since it was founded over 40 years ago by the late Robert Redford. And though its new location in Boulder, Colorado promises to take the annual celebration of independent cinema to a state decidedly
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Media industry
fromQueerty
2 months ago

A gay rom-com with an all-hunk cast, Bob The Drag Queen's Broadway bow & all the best LGBTQ+ releases this week - Queerty

Entertainment updates include an LGBTQ+ rom-com wrap, a Charli XCX film project, theater and Broadway casting news, celebrity commentary, and queer horror highlights.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Meet the Punk-Rock Projectionist Showing His Own Films in a Tiny Theater on Wheels

It's so pure. People talk a lot about the cinematic experience, going into a big theater and sharing it with a lot of people. That's important. But when you distill that into its tiniest form, when you make the screen as small as it can be and fit as many seats as possible, it still works. At least for Davey. That feeling doesn't go away.
Film
#gregg-araki
fromQueerty
2 months ago
LGBT

Teen angst, love & lust fuel this '90s indie from one of queer cinema's most provocative voices - Queerty

fromQueerty
1 month ago
Film

A raunchy new Gregg Araki comedy just dropped & it's the perfect excuse to rewatch his other queer classic - Queerty

fromQueerty
2 months ago
LGBT

Teen angst, love & lust fuel this '90s indie from one of queer cinema's most provocative voices - Queerty

fromQueerty
1 month ago
Film

A raunchy new Gregg Araki comedy just dropped & it's the perfect excuse to rewatch his other queer classic - Queerty

fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

CHRISTEENE wrapped up 4-show Joe's Pub run (pics)

Cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond is this year's Joe's Pub Vanguard artist, and as part of their curated residency, "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE played four sold out shows at the venue. Tuesday (1/27) was the final night, and CHRISTEENE covered songs by Lana Del Rey, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Tina Turner, and more in addition to playing originals, backed by a band that included Mary Feaster on bass, Lyla Vander on drums, Cole Stone Frisina on sax, Joanie Drago on guitar, James Jackson on guitar and banjo, Cornelius Loy on theremin, and Adam Rineer on piano.
Music
Arts
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Landmark horror film inspires new theatrical play headed for Bay Area

Chris Fisher stages a theatrical adaptation of Paranormal Activity using collaborative, practical illusions and technical effects at A.C.T.'s Toni Rembe Theater, Feb. 19–Mar. 22.
Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

Homoerotic or homophobic? This 50-year-old film explored repression & desire between two camp counselors - Queerty

The Best Way To Walk explores psychosexual tension between two adult summer camp counselors—a sensitive drama tutor and a repressed alpha male PE teacher—after the latter discovers the former cross-dressing.
Arts
fromPortland Mercury
2 months ago

Genderbomb's Impact Play: "If You're Offended, Tell Your Friends"

A trans ensemble's anthology blends participatory, visceral, kink-infused performance with explicit content and safety warnings that some audience members found insufficiently prominent.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
SF LGBT
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 months ago

Castro Theatre Reopening Ceremony and Gathering of Iconic Drag Stars - San Francisco Bay Times

Castro Theatre reopened February 6, 2026 with a ceremony featuring officials, performers, drag stars, and a tribute honoring organist David Hegarty.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Did This Infamous Sequel Really Cause A Beloved Horror Franchise's Decline?

Alan Smithee was Hollywood's official pseudonym for directors disowning their work due to studio interference, compromised productions, or genre embarrassment, exemplified by Hellraiser: Bloodline's troubled production and severe cuts.
Arts
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 months ago

Curtain Calls: Stephen King inspiration for improvised Screaming Good Time!' in East Bay

An improvised, audience-driven Stephen King homage delivers strong comedic performances and embraces outrageous suggestions but needs brisker pacing to maintain momentum.
Film
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

'Paranormal Activity' Brings Jump-Scares and Spooky Vibes to the Stage at ACT

A stage adaptation of a horror film franchise at San Francisco's ACT explores supernatural haunting through live theater, potentially establishing a new paradigm for horror on stage.
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Bruce Campbell on Death, Dying, and DIYing His New Movie Ernie & Emma

Who needs all those notes? I got tired of that. Really, really tired of that. And I'm like, man, if you're in the arts, you should do everything you can to protect your art. So Campbell knew he wanted to make a movie, and he knew he didn't want to go through the big Hollywood machine.
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Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

With its short-shorts & shocking twist ending, is this slasher problematic or a queer camp classic? - Queerty

Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 slasher featuring a controversial queer twist that has become significant in queer film history despite its problematic nature.
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

'Completely bowled us over': The horror show drawing thousands to an SF theater

In a full house at the 1,025-seat Toni Rembe Theater, there was an eruption of gasps and shrieks. The grown man to my right reflexively gripped the arm of my seat, sheepishly muttering an apology. In a distant aisle, I spotted one person get up and run out of the theater, their friend trailing closely behind.
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Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

40 Years Later, The Weirdest '80s Horror Movie Is Still Full Of Surprises

House is a 1986 horror-comedy that blends haunted house, Vietnam War trauma, and sitcom elements into an intentionally absurd and chaotic film that achieved cult classic status despite critical confusion.
#queer-horror
fromQueerty
2 months ago
Film

Queer desire becomes the ultimate horror in Sundance's most terrifying LGBTQ+ breakout hit Leviticus - Queerty

fromQueerty
2 months ago
Film

Queer desire becomes the ultimate horror in Sundance's most terrifying LGBTQ+ breakout hit Leviticus - Queerty

Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

10 Years, A Cult Director Kickstarted Their Career With A Terrifying Folk Horror

The Witch's success revitalized mainstream interest in folk horror, inspiring Hollywood, indie, and international films while highlighting pagan iconography and rural dread.
#sam-raimi
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

35 Years Ago, A Cult Horror Classic Got A Wildly Underrated Sequel

Jeffrey Combs dominated 1980s mad-scientist roles and returned as Herbert West in Bride of Re-Animator, conducting gruesome experiments to reanimate the dead.
Film
fromsfist.com
2 months ago

Peaches Christ to Host 30th Anniversary Screening of 'Showgirls' at Castro Theatre, With Star Gina Gershon

Peaches Christ will host a 30th-anniversary screening of Showgirls at the Castro Theatre with a pre-show conversation featuring Gina Gershon on April 2.
Film
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 months ago

Queer Offerings at the Mostly British Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Times

Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco screens films from the U.K., Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand, including premieres and queer classics.
fromQueerty
2 months ago

40 years later, this might still be the most shocking movie ever made about the AIDS crisis - Queerty

Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative.
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