T Categories Features Movies Reeling 2022 September 22, 2022 Twelve films we can’t wait to see at Reeling 2022 Chicago’s International Queer Film Festival turns 40 this year and these dozen movies have us raring to go.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 28, 2021 Reeling 2021: Mascarpone takes a while to rise but reveals some sweetness in the end Mascarpone, a dramedy from Alessandro Guida and Matteo Pilati, recovers from a monotone to become a warm study of a man rebuilding himself.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 26, 2021 Reeling 2021: Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music is as enthralling as it is expansive Invisible, T.J. Parsell's documentary about queer women and the country music they make, gives its subjects a space to shine.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 26, 2021 Reeling 2021: The Sixth Reel is a hilarious, warm, cinephiliac comedy With The Sixth Reel Charles Busch writes, directs, and stars in a delightful, frantic, thoughtful picture about the hunt for a lost film.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 26, 2021 Reeling 2021: Gemmel & Tim preserves the memories of two Black gay men denied justice Michiel Thomas' heartbreaking documentary calls for justice and equity and highlights the racial disparities in how society treats even gay men.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 24, 2021 Reeling 2021: No Straight Lines traces the history of queer comic books Vivian Kleiman's documentary is a playful look at the art form that helped so many queer people find identity, even if only on the page.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 September 24, 2021 Reeling 2021: At the End of Evin is a powerful Muslim trans story Mehdi and Mohammad Torab-Beigi's drama presents intriguing questions about the trans body and the experience of transition.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2020 Reviews September 25, 2020 Reeling 2020: “These Thems” is an accessible Queer 101 comedy The queer-centered YouTube series gets compiled into a winsome feature that works best as a Queer Culture primer.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reviews September 24, 2020 Reeling 2020: “Breaking Fast” delivers the Muslim queer stories we’ve been starving for Mike Mossalam's debut feature is a vibrant mosaic of Queer Arab Muslim-American life.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2019 September 27, 2019 Reeling: “The Garden Left Behind” Is Powerful Trans Filmmaking Flavio Alves' story of a trans immigrant in New York City may be rough around the edges, but it serves as important advocacy.
