When a beautiful journalist pursues a story on a child sex trafficking operation, she becomes hunted by assassins. Her only hope? A rogue, wisecracking detective with a penchant for violence.
A recent look at gender and racial diversity in film shows some signs of progress. However, white men still make up the vast majority of actors and directors in top-grossing films.
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.
Slip on your favorite dungarees and spend the day on the east coast of New Zealand before the 90s.
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is a gritty, darkly funny thrill ride through 1998 New York, with Austin Butler delivering a raw, magnetic turn as Hank Thompson—a washed-up ex-ballplayer turned bartender whose life implodes after cat-sitting for his punk neighbor drags him into a violent underworld of gangsters, crooked cops, and chaos. Brutal yet unexpectedly hilarious, the film blends noir grit with midnight-movie absurdity, proving Aronofsky can reinvent himself while Butler cements his status as a true movie star.
