BBC Arts has lined up three new Arena films for the festive season, from Passion Pictures, Fragile Films and Bohemia Films. Plus, a Christmas special about the Kanneh-Mason family from MaLarty Brown Media and Wag Entertainment and a production of the Peaky Blinders ballet Rambert and North South Production.
It s easy to blame individuals for their criminal actions, but we also know that when society s treatment of people who commit crimes is too punitive and merciless, the result is often - ironically and tragically - more crime.
“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,
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Bechtel Fest 8
Chicago s Broken Nose Theatre company presents a series of online plays; the annual festival of new short plays features an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men; free, thru March 26. https://brokennosetheatre.com/
Broadway on AirBnB
Promotional-sponsored performances by a variety of talents: Tittus Burgess, cast members from
Moulin Rouge, Mrs. Doubtfire, and more, plus dance, yoga, tarot and circus classes. $10-$50. www.airbnb.com
Broadway Performers
For Broadway fans, Tony-winning performers perform new concerts, and classic shows are streamed as well. https://www.broadwayworld.com/
Different Stars
Musical show with a current theme: How do these emotions collide during time spent alone in quarantine? When James opens a box of artifacts from his first breakup, after months of self-isolation during COVID-19, he reckons with memories that haunt him of a first queer love gone awry; s