An old dacha in the Moscow suburbs brought all the relatives together. Lyudmila Kozlova arrived from the city with her son, and everything would have been fine, except that the dacha itself is the subject of a dispute between the two sides of the family. Lyudmila unsuccessfully tries to persuade the owner to sell her the dacha, but to no avail. A conflict of contradictions brews, which seems to be resolved by the will of fate.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
YouTube surpasses Netflix but there is more to the story.
Wolverine carries Deadpool - literally and figuratively
If you want to feel the rush, you have to take the risk.
The Invitation takes a creeping look at two simple premises: reuniting with forgotten friends and new-age spiritualism. Though one seems a bit scarier than the other, the film heightens social awkwardness to a macabre level that puts an uncomfortable look on when the social taboo of grief is put on public display.
