G Categories Features TV September 5, 2019 Gender Treachery, or Where Are All the Trans People in “The Handmaid’s Tale”? Hulu's patriarchal sci-fi dystopia can't quite bring itself to explore what happens outside the cis experience.
R Categories TV August 9, 2019 Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” Goes Post-Modern Netflix brings back the classic Nick cartoon twenty years later for a one-off special filled with heart and surprisingly complicated musings on the passage of time.
C Categories Movies August 7, 2019 Changing the Game Review: Transitioning to Fairer Play Michael Barnett's doc is an inspiring, eye-opening look at the complicated, often painful world of transgender high school athletes.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month TV June 30, 2019 Amor Vincit Omnia: The Radical Sentimentality of “Sense8” The Wachowskis took their high-concept empathy to TV with a gloriously ambitious Netflix show that was gone far too soon.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 21, 2019 “The Matrix Revolutions” Closes the Trilogy at the Edge of Hell The Matrix Revolutions, the Wachowskis' final film in the trilogy, is just as flawed as Reloaded, but carries heaps of visual and thematic weight.
E Categories TV June 16, 2019 Euphoria Review: A Stylish But Empty Tale of Teenage Rebellion HBO's latest series puts its characters through exaggerated adolescent antics, with little substance to show for it.
J Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month June 2, 2019 June’s Filmmakers of the Month: Lana and Lilly Wachowski For June, we celebrate Pride Month by diving into the filmography of cinema's most prominent transgender filmmakers.
F Categories Movies March 11, 2019 Film Review: Netflix’s “Girl” is an Obscene Cis Fantasy of Trans Suffering Netflix's latest festival darling dangerously fetishizes the trans experience and reduces it to a leering obsession with genitalia.
F Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 36 September 18, 2018 Five LGBTQ+ Films We Can’t Wait to See at the 36th Reeling Film Festival The 36th annual LGBTQ+ film fest starts up this week in Chicago, and we talk about some of the queer films we most look forward..