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“Unmarked” – Lost [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Mount Zion Cemetery in Middletown, VA. An African American cemetery in use between 1801 and 1954. Photo courtesy of First Run Features, Mount Zion Cemetery in Middletown, VA. An African American cemetery in use between 1801 and 1954. Photo courtesy of First Run Features, “Unmarked,” a well-intentioned short documentary that seeks to shine a light on heritage lost and heritage found, focuses primarily on the unmarked and abandoned graves of African Americans in Virginia. The discovery of unmarked slave graves on the property of a prese...

The title “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) suggests life during the pandemic, but this haunting love story — Hungary’s Oscar entry — follows a surgeon who leaves the United States and returns to Bucharest, where she plans to reunite with a physician she met and fell in love with during a medical conference. That he claims not to remember her when she shows up in Hungary is but the first twist in this riveting tale from director Lili Horvát. Also available: The acclaimed “Acasa, My Home” (Zeitgiest/Kino Lorber) follows a Roman...

Film festival favorite (and award-winner) “The Strong Ones” (Breaking Glass Pictures) continues a new wave of Chilean cinema that forthrightly and empathetically explores LGBTQ themes. In Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo’s smart and sexy debut feature, the romance between grad student Lucas (Samuel González) and fisherman Antonio (Antonio Altamirano) unfolds with ardor and passion, but the film never shies away from exploring the class disparity between the two characters or the assumptions that each might make about the other. Also available: Shot in Cuba, the based-on-a-true-story drama “Ma...

Sony's "The Craft: Legacy," Hulu's "Happiest Season" and Netflix's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "The Old Guard" and "The Prom" were the wide-release films nominated for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards Thursday. The awards honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. Emmy-winning television series "Schitt's Creek" along with the comedies "Big Mouth," "Dead to Me," "Love, Victor, "Sex Education," "Saved by the Bell" and "Superstore," and the dramas "Star Trek: Discovery," "Killing Eve," "The Umbrella Academy," "Vida" and "Supergirl" were also among the expanded list...

Advertisement Recording artists Adam Lambert, Brandy Clark, Halsey, Kehlani, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Pabllo Vittar, Peppermint, Ricky Martin and Sam Smith were also nominated, along with talk show hosts Trevor Noah and Lilly Singh, CNN’s Jake Tapper and even “Sesame Street” star Elmo, who hosts “The Not-Too-Late Show.” “During an unprecedented year of crises and isolation, the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards reached LGBTQ people with powerful stories and inspired countless others around the world with bold looks at LGBTQ people and issues,” GLAAD President and Ch...