Category: Movie

After you’ve read this part, check out numbers 100-76, 75-51 and 50-26. 25. Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) Hunger is both off-putting and arresting in its powerful imagery of IRA leader Bobby Sands’ (Michael Fassbender) resistance against dehumanisation at the hands of his

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Representations of gender dysphoria are proliferating. There will continue to be missteps but it’s heartening to see more sensitive portrayals. Sébastien Lifschitz has been in the latter camp since his 2004 narrative drama Wild Side, about a trans* sex worker played by

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Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video that explores the “first feature-length mashup,” Dinosaur Hunters. Dinosaur Hunters makes good on the implicit pitch of

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This article is part of The Reading List, a monthly column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy TV show and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies. This entry starts with The Boys source material but quickly descends

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The recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice and lifelong crusader for the rights of women and other marginalized groups, sent shockwaves through American society on both sides of the political aisle. Everyone’s at a loss as to how such an illustrious

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What is a ‘phenomenal woman’? In a towering performance, actor Nicole Beharie plays a former beauty queen preparing her rebellious daughter for the Miss Juneteenth pageant. This powerful directorial debut from Channing Godfrey Peoples explores themes of Black motherhood,

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Miss Juneteenth is the debut feature from writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples. It focuses on the deferred dreams of former pageant queen Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie) and her plan to convince her daughter to secure the same crown and a university scholarship as she

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Although the vast majority of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are now in the public domain, a small handful written in the mid 1920s remain under copyright, creating legal dramas that continue to give filmmakers headaches. In 2015, director Bill Condon was sued

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The North American history that is poetically taught in schools romanticizes the atrocities of colonization. This version of the truth paints the attacks on Indigenous people as a necessity rather than acts of intentional violence. Continual genocide and forced assimilation,

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I watched Marina de Van’s 2002 film In My Skin for an issue of LWLies celebrating female filmmakers through the ages, and wanted to make sure we covered the less well-trodden grounds of genre cinema, as it’s often neglected in these projects. I was astounded, shocked and

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