“Born to Be” (Kino Lorber), viewers are taken inside America’s first hospital center devoted to transgender medical care.
Warhol superstar and trans pioneer Candy Darling’s life and career is celebrated in
“Beautiful Darling” (Corinth Films); two women face trial to determine whether they were the
“Assassins” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother in this riveting true-life tale; one-half of TV’s “Property Brothers” explores the future of energy in
“Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales” (Metrograph/Kino Lorber) also includes restorations of eight of Ruspoli’s nature-doc shorts.
New Grindhouse
“The Craft: Legacy” (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) proves that sequels (or rebootquels or legacyquels) can be worthwhile in the hands of creative filmmakers. Writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones (“Band Aid,” the upcoming “How It Ends”) clearly loves and reveres the original cult classic without needing the feel to repeat the beats,