Oz: Yellow Brick Road to Pain
Ernie Hudson, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau and Terry Kinney. Photo: HBO Today, Oz is considered a seminal event in the history of American television. HBO’s first hour-long drama series, the…
Eric
In 1980s New York, successful puppeteer Vincent Anderson (Benedict Cumberbatch) tries to find his missing son, while dealing with a miserable marriage, alcoholism, his misanthropy and a huge, hairy puppet…
Femme
After getting assaulted, a drag performer (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) hangs up his wig and becomes a recluse… then one day, in a gay sauna, he spots the young guy (George MacKay)…
The Whale: Weight of a Lived Life
Brendan Fraser. Photo: A24 In 2006, Brendan Fraser was still at the beginning of his downfall as a movie star, a phase where he couldn’t find many good parts. There…
Silver Haze
Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight’s last film together, Dirty God (2019), was certainly a personal project, but this one may be even more so, as Knight plays a version of…
Crossing
When her sister dies, a retired teacher (Mzia Arabuli) in Georgia goes to Istanbul together with a young guide (Lucas Kankava) to try to find her niece, a trans girl…
All of Us Strangers: Trapped in Childhood
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Photo: Searchlight Pictures All of Us Strangers freezes the portrait of one’s parents in a specific time period. The background is steeped in tragedy. On…
Rustin
In 1963, veteran activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) tries to organize a march on Washington, in spite of friction with the NAACP and the fact that his homosexuality might be…
Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York
Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…
Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World
Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…