Overview

• It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 5 and continues screening through June 12.
• Director Alison Ellwood traces the band’s 1981 formation in London and its ascent with hit albums Kissing to Be Clever and Colour by Numbers.
• Boy George and Jon Moss recount their 1981 meeting and ensuing romance that inspired songs like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.”
• The film examines how the end of George and Moss’s relationship contributed to Culture Club’s split in 1986 and covers the band’s later reunions without Moss following his 2018 departure.
• It also details Moss’s lawsuit over unpaid tour earnings and its reported 2023 settlement while placing Culture Club’s story within broader LGBTQ+ cultural conversations.