A downer, sure… but a beautiful one.Īvailable on iTunes and Google Play, and streaming on Amazon and Tubi. A thoughtful reworking of Leo McCarey’s devastating 1937 melodrama Make Way For Tomorrow, it also offers a snapshot of queer culture wrestling with questions of generational change and mortality, and Lithgow and Molina acknowledging decades of shared history between them without speaking a word. Ira Sachs’s piercing drama casts John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as long-partnered Ben and George, who marry as soon as they legally can… and see their happy life together fall apart almost immediately. Streaming, intriguingly enough, on Shudder.
A seductive examination of voyeurism and attraction that never quite goes where you think it will – and knows that sex is never really safe. He strikes up a friendship with middle-aged Henri (Patrick d’Assumçao), but Franck is drawn to Michel (Christophe Paou), who’s younger, hotter and almost certainly a murderer. Single Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends a summer at a secluded beach where men come to hook up. Stranger By The Lakeĭesire can be dangerous, a truism French writer/director Giraudie uses to exquisite effect in this sun-dappled thriller. These are the best LGBT movies available to stream in Canada. From indie genre experiments to a surprise Best Picture winner, it’s been a pretty amazing run. It's unfortunate that Netflix canceled this underrated show after just two seasons.Coronavirus has either cancelled most Pride events or driven them online – that’s 2020 for you – so if you find yourself in a more introspective mood, maybe take some time to appreciate the amazing queer cinema boom that’s happened over the last decade.
The joy of the series is in the updated casting, DeWanda Wise's Nola beams with wisdom, fear, artistic knowledge, and carnal desire, while the men and women in her life are fleshed out and… fleshed out, allowing the many sex scenes to play to the senses while reaching for something deeper. Lee's signature, syncopated style-bright colors, up-close-and-personal confessionals, jolts of pop music and album art, Bruce Hornsby's melancholy piano filling the gaps-is intact, tracking Nola through the gentrifying brownstone labyrinth of Fort Greene.
But who is she? Spike Lee made his directorial debut with 1986's She's Gotta Have It, and 30 years later, expands the character study into his first TV series, a rhythmic exploration of sex, Brooklyn, and Black life. Nola Darling is an artist, an activist, a Brooklynite, and a sex-positive polyamorous pansexual with three emotionally volatile boyfriends.
Campion's direction is dangerously erotic, while Benedict Cumberbatch gives one of his all-time great performances as a man so uncomfortable in his own skin he inflicts his pain upon others. He is similarly inclined to do that to her son, Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who arrives at the ranch on summer holiday from college studies, but instead decides to take him under his wing, figuring he can mold him into the kind of man he thinks is worth being. He worships a rider named Bronco Henry and calls his softer brother George (Jesse Plemons) "fatso." When George marries a widowed innkeeper (Kirsten Dunst), Phil makes it his mission to mentally torture her. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a rancher who prides himself on the dirt under his fingernails and his ability to live with as few amenities as possible.
The Piano director Jane Campion's return to feature filmmaking after more than a decade away is an absolute triumph, a chilling exploration of a man driven to cruelty by the pursuit of a masculine ideal in the American West.