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Victor Polster is sensational as the 15-year-old Lara, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina, in co-writer/ director Lukas Dhont’s Girl (2018). You could put this another way, Victor Polster is sensational as […]
Writer-director Jane Anderson’s nice spirited, if uncomfortable and not entirely successful 2003 drama is set around the lives of a married couple, Roy and Irma (Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange), in a church-going, Middle America community. […]
Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s highly provocative, extremely controversial 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film teaches a lesson of acceptance as it centres on a sexually diverse group of colorful characters trying to connect in New York City. The […]
Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s 2001 cult American musical comedy drama is a tour de force for him, giving a sensational performance in the title role of Hedwig based on his original in his source stage show, written […]
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s intriguing but odd and alienating 2011 thriller is his 18th film, in a brilliant career that runs all the way back to Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. In his first collaboration with Almodóvar in […]
Director Tom Hooper’s 2015 drama is an excellent, beautifully crafted movie with two brilliant, award-worthy performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and something important to say. It has four Oscar nominations. It’s based on a true […]
Paul Morrissey follows up Flesh (1968) for producer Andy Warhol with the 1970 film Trash, a second fresh and funny slice of lowlives drama, again starring Joe Dallesandro as a good-looking lowlife. Writer-cinematographer-director Paul Morrissey […]