Jack King

Jack is British film journalist, exhibitor and screenwriter. He currently resides in South East London but spends at least an hour per day wishing he was in the Italian Riviera - and no, not just because he watched Call Me By Your Name twenty-six times, thank you very much. He has attended all of the major festivals other than Venice but he's hoping to knock that off later this year. He sees himself much like his film taste: unashamedly queer and far tackier than he'd like to admit. When not writing the next great indie flick, or sat in a barely-lit art house auditorium, he can typically be found in a gay bar ranting about Ronald Reagan.

‘Great Freedom’ review: Franz Rogowski is transformative in this sombre period prison drama [Grade: A-] (London Film Festival)

Take it from someone who has lived here for all of his twenty-five years: Englanders, for the most part, are… Read More

October 13, 2021

‘The Tender Bar’ review: Ben Affleck raises the bar in George Clooney’s largely inept newest directorial outing [Grade: D+] (London Film Festival)

When you’re at a festival populated by indie slow-burners, a maudlin, easy-to-watch soap opera can be a wonderful, soupy balm.… Read More

October 11, 2021

Interview: ‘Moffie’ director Oliver Hermanus on queer coding in war movies and examining state-embedded racism

To say the very least, South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus has built up a robust filmography. His exceptional debut Shirley… Read More

April 6, 2021

TV Review: Russell T. Davies’ 80s Aids serial ‘It’s a Sin’ is a pleasure, but not a guilty one

Ah, It’s a Sin. A heady tribute as much as it is a wistful tragedy. Both a celebration of everything… Read More

January 29, 2021

Interview: John Magaro (‘First Cow’) on Evie, shooting in the Oregon wilderness and how the film exists in the world of queer cinema

(A24) Need it be reiterated that this has been an incredible drudge of a year? It feels as though a… Read More

December 9, 2020

LFF Review: Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci give career-best turns in a champagne ‘Supernova’ in the sky

The most delicate moments of Supernova, the sublime sophomore feature from British director Harry Macqueen, don’t actually happen on screen;… Read More

October 13, 2020

Film Review: The new ‘The Boys in the Band’ is a strikingly familiar tune played by a great new band

Dance dance before the revolution: Jim Parsons, Robin de Jesus, Michael Benjamin Washington and Andrew Rannells as Larry in THE… Read More

September 25, 2020

Film Review: Tom Holland is far from home in ‘The Devil All the Time’

Tom Holland as Arvin Russell (Glen Wilson/Netflix) The Southern Gothic is as American as the second amendment. Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise… Read More

September 11, 2020

Frameline Review: ‘No Hard Feelings (Futur Drei)’

“The future is ours” says Banafshe, an Iranian woman in Germany on the verge of deportation, towards the end of… Read More

September 11, 2020

Frameline Review: ‘Killing Patient Zero’

Gaëtan Dugas was a handsome French-Canadian flight attendant who, like most gay men in the seventies, dove headfirst into the… Read More

September 9, 2020

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