Alex Davidson
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10 great LGBTQIA+ break-up films
Our list of queer break-up movies spans 100 years of film history – from Carl Dreyer to Desiree Akhavan.
By Alex Davidson
10 great LGBTQIA+ break-up films
Reviews
The Lost Boys: a kind and tender gay love story
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Where is Anne Frank: a warm, uncynical tribute to victims of persecution
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Swan Song: a disappointing outing for Udo Kier
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Flee is an astonishing animated portrait of a young refugee
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
A Brixton Tale follows a filmmaker crossing the line between inspiration and exploitation
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World counts the personal cost of international fame
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Cowboys rides all guns blazing into its transgender childhood story
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Sequin in a Blue Room odysseys through a Lynchian queer underworld
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
It’s a Sin is a love letter to 1980s gay culture – and hate mail to the era’s homophobic hegemony
By Alex Davidson
10 great
10 great Christmas films
By Josephine Botting, Sarah Currant and others
Features
Björk on film: Grimm fairytales, whaling missions and Cannes glory
By Alex Davidson
Features
Why do we treat serial killers’ gay victims as dramatically disposable?
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Welcome to Chechnya review: exodus from a burning closet
By Alex Davidson
Interviews
“A warm embrace rather than a punch in the stomach”: Levan Akin on his queer Georgian love story And Then We Danced
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Buddies review: the original gay Aids drama is still one of the best
By Alex Davidson
Lists
6 to see at LFF if you like... LGBTQ+ cinema
By Alex Davidson
Features
Art against hate: queer cinema from repressive countries
By Alex Davidson
10 great
10 great Canadian lesbian, gay and transgender films
By Alex Davidson
Features
Oscars so serious: why sidelining comedies at the Academy Awards isn’t funny
By Alex Davidson
Lists
50 films and TV series to see in 2019
By Henry Barnes, Alex Davidson and others
Lists
5 LGBTQ+ films you should watch at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival
By Alex Davidson
Lists
15 rare times when a director made great films in 5 or more different decades
By Alex Barrett, Martyn Conterio and others