Within 80 minutes, this ex-Air Force member and NSA translator will have received the harshest ever sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media. Twenty-five days later, the same woman arrives back at her house in Augusta, Georgia to find two FBI agents with a search warrant for her property. “Three Identical Strangers” (now streaming)Ī young woman sits in a gray office - boxed in by her cubicle desk - as Fox News announces that Donald Trump has just fired FBI director James Comey, ostensibly for his investigation into how Russian interference in the 2016 election likely worked in the 45th president’s favor. Longoria has the eye and heart for crowd-pleasing movie-making. Jesse Garcia stars alongside Dennis Haysbert, Tony Shalhoub, and Emilio Rivera.įrom IndieWire’s review by Kate Erbland: The stuff that is good about “Flamin’ Hot,” including star Jesse Garcia, dedication to uplifting the Mexican-American community, and compulsively watchable sequences of junk food being made (seriously) is very good indeed. Eva Longoria, 2023)Įva Longoria directs the 2023 SXSW premiere “Flamin’ Hot” based on the memoir of Richard Montañez, a Frito-Lay janitor who claimed to have invented the snack food Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
In order to respect her mother’s dying wishes, Lola and her father, with whom she’s estranged, are forced to go to the Belgian coast and mend their differences. In Laurent Micheli’s touching, Cesar-nominated “Lola,” an 18-year-old transgender girl finds out that she will finally be able to have an operation - but at the same time, her mother has died. An out-of-body theatrical experience that makes its predecessor feel like a glorified proof-of-concept, “Avatar: The Way of Water” is such a staggering improvement over the original because its spectacle doesn’t have to compensate for its story in vintage Cameron fashion, the movie’s spectacle is what allows its story to be told so well.įilm Movement+ has a strong lineup of LGBTQ+ films celebrating Pride this month.
James Cameron has always treated story as a direct extension of the spectacle required to bring it to life, but the anthropocenic relationship between narrative and technology was a bit uneven in the first “Avatar,” which obscured the old behind the veil of the new where his previous films had better allowed them to intertwine. Brad Davis, who would die from HIV-related complications three years later, is perfectly cast as the title character, a criminal in love who, much like Genet and Fassbinder, seals his own tragic fate. It’s an adaptation of a novel by French libertine and gay icon Jean Genet, settling into a French port city where a madame played by Jeanne Moreau runs the world, and sailors engage in explicit sex acts that turn violent. Live-and-die-hard filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final howl of anguish from the soul was 1982’s “Querelle,” his last and possibly gayest movie.
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