Ana Lily Amirpour’s wasteland survival story, The Bad Batch raises a lot of issues while never quite getting to its point.
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Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers
Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A Date for Mad Mary, In Between, and God’s Own Country.
Review: San Francisco’s beautiful The Speakeasy is more bar than theatre
San Francisco’s site-specific The Speakeasy from Boxcar Theatre invites you into a Prohibition-era haunt with amazing period costumes and design but fall shorts on story.
Review: The Public Theater takes a joyous, bare bones Twelfth Night on the road
The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York State.
Review: Linney and Nixon impress in Little Foxes on Broadway
Director Daniel Sullivan makes the most out of Lillian Hellman’s uneven Little Foxes, creating a showcase for Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon.
Elle and Big Little Lies: Progressive representations of violence against women
Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Jean-Marc Vallée’s Big Little Lies share the common goal of unmasking the omnipresence of misogyny via its horrific manifestations in violence. In both universes, the best protection from violent men is trusting other women.