With Moonlight having won Best Film at this year’s Academy Awards, it looks like 2018 is going to be quite queer in Hollywood. The big contender (it’s hotly tipped for Oscar glory) is Call Me By Your Name, which charts an affair between a 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old doctoral student working for the boy’s father over a summer Italy. Based on the brilliant (if you haven’t read it, you really should) novel by André Aciman, and starring Armie Hammer, word is we’ll get to see it before its November American release at an Irish festival very soon!
In the indie camp, we get a starmaking vehicle for new kid on the block, Harris Dickson with Beach Rats, the tale of a delinquint Brooklyn boy who goes from cruising for older men on the beach to a burgeoning relationship with a young woman, and back again. And then we have, Hello Again, a time-travelling, gender-bending, polysexual musical based on a 19th century play, that features the mavellous Martha Plimpton getting it on with Broadway queen, Audra McDonald, and turns by queer actors TR Knight and Cheyenne Jackson.