Little Boat (1970)

Wanda and Vision are suffering under the stress of parenting their twin boys.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Released on Netflix this last July, Mile End Kicks, catches the eyes of those who are wanting to escape the disasters of 2026 and visit the era of peak Tumblr, unforgettable music hits, and iconic fashion trends—-of 2011. This coming-of-age film directed by Chandler Levack succeeds at portraying an accurate representation of what life was like in the early 2010’s.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.

One of the great achievements of this film is its ability to challenge the mind and to force you to try to process information in a different way than you’re used to.