
After Elizabeth and Nikiforos lose their beloved family—Achilles, Natalia, and little Elizabeth—to a permanent move to the United States, Nikiforos’ desperate attempt to stop them lands him under six months of house arrest. Frustrated by their wives’ restrictions and their own mid-life crises—Mimi’s heart condition, Pavlos and Maria’s new parenthood, and Eirini’s turn to monasticism—the trio of men make up a plan: they take over their favorite tavern, hold their (ex-)wives hostage, and throw one epic, liberating feast.
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
'Ganja & Hess' is a 1973 experimental horror film, written and directed by the visionary auteur Bill Gunn. It was meant to be a straightforward blaxploitation film – but director Gunn had grander ambitions.
It is up to the community to decide if this film is a force for enlightenment or not.
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is a beautiful, poignant, enraging, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking film about the trauma and harm conversion therapy inflicts on young queer people. Even though its classification as horror holds, the emotional bond between the two main characters, Naim and Ryan, elevates the story into a realistic romantic drama on par with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.