All articles by Alex Davidson
Swan Song: a disappointing outing for Udo Kier
The final part of Todd Stephens’s semi-autobiographical Ohio Trilogy evinces the otherness of being queer in small-town America, but fails to make good use of its star.
By Alex Davidson
Flee is an astonishing animated portrait of a young refugee
By Alex Davidson
Cowboys rides all guns blazing into its transgender childhood story
By Alex Davidson
Sequin in a Blue Room odysseys through a Lynchian queer underworld
By Alex Davidson
It’s a Sin is a love letter to 1980s gay culture – and hate mail to the era’s homophobic hegemony
By Alex Davidson
Why do we treat serial killers’ gay victims as dramatically disposable?
By Alex Davidson
Welcome to Chechnya review: exodus from a burning closet
By Alex Davidson
Oscars so serious – Why sidelining comedies at the Academy Awards isn’t funny
By Alex Davidson
5 LGBTQ+ films you should watch at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival
By Alex Davidson
15 rare times when a director made great films in 5 or more different decades
By Alex Barrett, Martyn Conterio and others
Was Merchant Ivory’s Maurice just too gay for the 1980s?
By Alex Davidson
Find your tribe: why family is a hot topic in queer cinema
By Alex Davidson
10 great LGBTQ+ films from Latin America
By Alex Davidson
Vampire, warrior, Bond girl: Grace Jones on film
By Alex Davidson
5 to see at LFF 2017 if you like... LGBT cinema
By Alex Davidson
10 great films about ménage-à-trois relationships
By Alex Davidson
Hand in Glove: The Smiths, Morrissey and ‘kitchen sink’ cinema
By Alex Davidson
Podcast: three critics discuss the best of BFI Flare 2017
By Alex Davidson, So Mayer and others
Where to begin with Rainer Werner Fassbinder
By Alex Davidson
The strange history of LGBT films at the Oscars
By Alex Davidson