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I know, I know, I know. I shouldn’t. The serial killer that FBI trainee Clarice Starling attempts to capture kills women so he can cut off their skin and wear it as a suit. He puts on dresses and makeup and dances around to “Goodbye Horses.” Despite the film’s attempts to insist that Buffalo Bill isn’t trans, all anyone remembers of the character is the scenes in which he seems to be making a cruel mockery of trans womanhood (to say nothing of queerness more generally). What’s more,...

Every Golden Globes Best Drama Winner Since 1952 By Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News On 3/1/21 at 8:00 PM EST This years Golden Globes were unlike any other in its storied history, which began in 1944 when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gathered at the studios of Twentieth Century-Fox to celebrate the filmmaking achievements of 1943. Seventy-plus years later, the Golden Globes Awards show is the first to kick off the awards calendar, and after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemi...

If you've read Sarah Pinborough's 2017 novel Behind Her Eyes, you already know what to expect from Netflix's new miniseries adaptation. But

Whats it about? The church of Tonga demands donations, especially from those who have left the country. This personal documentary follows the family of Saia Mafile’o who, decades after moving to New Zealand, still dedicates his life and money entirely to his homeland. Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:   Dreamy Chilean drama Rey explores a man who would be king This bold Chilean film explores a little-known story of a French adventurer claiming to be king of Patagonia. Now streami...

If I were to tell you that "Into the West" was about two boys and their magical white horse, you would of course think it was a childrens film. But it is more than that, although children will enjoy it. The movie is set in a world a little too gritty for innocent animal tales. It concerns two young gypsy boys growing up in the high-rise slums of Dublin, with their father, who loves them but has grown distant and drunken since their mother died. One day their grandfather, who still travels the r...

9 min read Irelands most garlanded director talks about ageism in film, Harvey Weinstein and his new novel, about the aristocratic rebel Lord Edward FitzGerald and his manservant, the freed slave Tony Small We begin by comparing facial hair. Neil Jordan has cough-cough years on me, but, over the previous 12 months, we seem to have mutated into variations on the same grizzled, spectacled hermit “How is that beard coming?” he asks. Our most garlanded film director – who is currentl...

The first movie my partner and I watched together was The Silence of the Lambs. It was one of her favorites, I hadnt seen it in a while, it just happened to be on TV, and so we watched it. Partway through the film, she turned to me and said, "Are you going to be OK watching this?" I looked at her, confused. I didnt know what she meant. "Yknow," she said, "because Bill... with the women." At this point, I should probably mention that Im transgender. But I was still surprised at my partners conc...

With feature animation Wolfwalkers looking likely to be Cartoon Saloon’s fourth nomination for their fourth feature film (their fifth in total including the short animation Late Afternoon), actresses Saoirse Ronan (looking for a fifth nomination for Ammonite) and Jessie Buckley ( , writer and actress Clare Dunne a contender for Herself, and even Jamie Dornan a possibility for Wild Mountain Thyme (according to some US trades), Ireland is hopeful for more Oscar success.  We have a rich hi...

Strange, how good "feardotcom" is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see. The plot is a bewildering jumble of half-baked ideas, from which we gather just enough of a glimmer about the story to understand how it is shot through with contradictions and paradoxes. And yet I watched in admiration as a self-contained nightmareformed with the visuals. Not many movies know how to do that. Ill get to t...

Theres a 1950s genre of films that asked to be decoded through a gay lens. They undermined the conventional view of straight, middle-class American life, inviting the irony of outsiders (homosexual or not). Their glamorous, overwrought heroines were role models for the emerging camp sensibility. Douglas Sirks melodramas (among them "Imitation of Life," "Written on the Wind" and "All That Heaven Allows") are at the head of this category, and Todd Haynes "Far From Heaven" (2002) was a film that m...