The original Queer as Folk, created for British television in 1999 by Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who), was a ground-breaking depiction of gay life that became a source text for queer kids around the world.
Strip clubs are an eternal backdrop on television, with female bodies the punctuation to male pleasure. Soaked in Mississippi Delta vernacular and a keen understanding of working-class economics, P-Valley upends those expectations.
A decade before Godzilla vs Kong, director Adam Wingard delivered this thrilling and bloody independent horror movie, where a wealthy American clan’s family celebration becomes a fight for survival.
teven Soderbergh sat alone and atop for years thanks to Out of Sight, but Lorene Scafaria joined him thanks to blackly comic 2019 crime drama, where Lopez plays the leader of a group of exotic dancers who decide to treat their wealthy clients with the same disdain the guys show to the financial markets, by drugging and bilking the men. Lan
Bodies are brutally marked and beliefs broken in this wrenching Swedish coming-of-age drama, which draws on the history of the country’s Sami population, an Indigenous people from the far north.
Cult horror author Clive Barker made a big, bloody splash with his feature directing debut. Adapting his own story, The Hellbound Heart, Barker weaves an unsettling tale of what are essentially supernatural BDSM aficionados, summoned by a magic device—Lemarchand’s Box or The Lament Configuration depending on who’s talking—to subject humans to pain beyond pleasure and pleasure beyond pain.
John Wyndham’s 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos is one of the most potent source texts in science-fiction, repeatedly adapted for film and radio in its original British setting and America.
The decisive plunge taken by the United States Navy under the directives of iron-willed admirals helps defeat the Japanese fleet near Midway Atoll.