The Throwaways follows straight-A and anything but straight Olivia on her quest to find a safe place to be herself. This showcases the tenuous nature of LGBT acceptance in the US as well as the comfort to be found in new friends and allies.
The French-born director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s strategic choice to entrust the interpretation of a conventional, feminine character to a non-binary actor pays off: Corrin’s Lady Chatterley is awkward, edgy, and uninhibited at the same time.
This emotional, frightening, and dreamlike story examines the ways actresses are exploited in the name of art.
We have a long way to go with LGBT representation in film, especially when it comes to LGBT characters of color and trans characters.
'Pariah' tells a powerful, mesmerizing, and unflinchingly honest story of identity.
Unrelentingly funny, highly entertaining, and ridiculously absurd, My Movie Starring Paul Dano is, according to its creator, Joe Bartone, a tribute to the willful ignorance of independent filmmaking found in the late '70s in New York City. Developed through open discussions with the cast at the reading table, the mockumentary follows a delusional and fame-starved indie director, Herman Rumowicz, through the process of making his very first feature movie starring Paul Dano.
"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.
