●●●○○ The story that Netflix‘s new indie rom-com follows is a familiar one. You have your twenty-something woman in a creative field, living in a gorgeous apartment in the big city that you know she could never afford in real … Continue reading ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ is one dope film Maia Mathieu reviews the freshest indie rom-com on Netflix.
We’re back to hook you up with the best Netflix viewing this August. Instead of compulsively refreshing Instagram and brooding over everyone you know drinking umbrella cocktails in some tropical paradise, tune in and veg out with TN2, with our … Continue reading Netflix: What To Watch – August
Today marks the start of GAZE Dublin’s 25th LGBT film festival. The best contemporary LGBT films will be celebrated at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield this bank holiday weekend. The programme will include documentaries, discussions and retrospective screenings. The … Continue reading GAZE LGBT Film Festival Dublin Queer cinema is at home in Dublin in this look at the programme for 2017
Listening to three 30-year-old teachers in towels talking about how much they hated their lives at four in the morning was not my typical idea of a Wednesday night. Temple Bar’s gay sauna, The Boilerhouse, had long been a … Continue reading Bed, Bath and Beyond What draws people to Temple Bar’s gay sauna, The Boilerhouse?
●●●●● Tangerine is a strikingly documentary-like feature that charts one particularly sunny Christmas Eve in West Hollywood, through the eyes of two transgender sex workers – Alexandra and Sin-Dee – and an Armenian taxi driver, Razmik (Played by Mya Taylor, … Continue reading Tangerine – Review
●●●●● Andrew Haigh’s new film, 45 Years, initially seems like a departure from his previous work. With 2011 film Weekend and HBO series Looking, he established himself as one of the most notable filmmakers tackling gay themes in mainstream(ish) culture. … Continue reading Review – 45 Years
GAZE, Dublin’s international LGBT film festival, returns for its 23rd year this August Bank Holiday weekend. To get us in the mood for the festival we spoke to Kieran Turner, director of Jobriath A.D., which won the documentary prize at … Continue reading Interview: Kieran Turner, LGBT web series creator
●●○○○ The Dean Kriel, a solo performer living and working in Moscow, prides himself on utilising his own personal experiences to explore tensions between the individual and the community in an attempt to engage the audience in conversation. His entry … Continue reading I’m Going Through Something – Review
To Twink or not to Twink, Deputy Editor Matthew Mulligan discusses the (thankful) loss of his twink “identity”. Continue reading Where the Wild Twinks Are
“Being an Iranian-American implies a certain identity, and the same thing with being in the queer community, and what if you don’t fit those things naturally? What if the norm is not you? I thought those were the questions I wanted to answer.” Continue reading Appropriate Behaviour: Interview with Desiree Akhavan
What happens when old, ecclesiastical notions of “morality” are held up and imposed in a world where they can cause great damage to the happiness and wellbeing of families and individuals? (●●●●●) Continue reading Love is Strange – review
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