This Editorial Contains Some Spoilers for Emilia Pérez On October 30, 2024 I attended a morning press screening of Emilia Pérez in advance of its theatrical run at the TIFF Lightbox. A month or so earlier, the film was a runner-up for the TIFF People’s Choice Award. My first reaction upon exiting the theatre is…
A cartel leader seeks a new beginning in Emilia Pérez. Rita Moro Castro (Zoe Saldaña) is a Mexico City Defense Attorney, who draws the attention of cartel boss Manitas Del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón). Manitas wants Rita to help arrange gender reassignment surgery, so he can start a new life as his true self. Rita…
A transgender podcast returning home for the holidays reencounters her town’s legendary serial killer in Carnage for Christmas. Lola (Jeremy Moineau) is the successful co-host of a true-crime podcast who is travelling home for Christmas, to the small town of Purdan, for the first time since running away and transitioning. Lola stays with her sister…
The nearly forgotten story of one of pop music’s first black trans performers is told in Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star, before disappearing from the public eye in 1971. After her nieces Andrenee Majors and Vonnie Moore inherit her belongings and find her…
A down-on-his-luck soccer manager is hired to coach the American Samoa national team in Next Goal Wins. Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) is a temperamental Dutch-American soccer coach who is sent by American Soccer Federation head Alex Magnussen (Will Arnett) to coach the American Somoa National Team, a move recommended by Thomas’ ex-wife Gail (Elisabeth Moss)….
