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Elliot Page in Close to You

Close to You review: a story about going home

Close to You is a story about love and family. Elliot Page stars as Sam, a trans man going home for the first time in several years because it’s his father’s birthday. There’s a secondary plot about an old love […]

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Zoe Saldana in Emilia Pérez - photo by page 114

Emilia Pérez review: beautiful, fascinating, dangerous

Emilia Pérez is surprising and different. It’s a musical with color saturated visuals. It’s a story about Mexican drug cartels and dirty money. It’s a story about being who you are and what that can cost. It’s a story about

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Penélope Cruz and Luana Giuliani in L'immensità

L’immensità: Penélope Cruz mothers a trans child in 1970s Rome

L’immensità tells a tender, heartbreaking story about a mother’s love for her children, one of them trans, in this Italian drama starring Penélope Cruz. The setting is Rome in 1970, not a time and place where gender dysphoria was understood

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Robbie Magasiva, Kate Atkinson and Bernard Curry in Wentworth

Review: Wentworth, season 8

Wentworth (in some locales Wentworth Prison), season 8, is available on Netflix US now. In this season, a rash of new characters entered the prison to create trouble and chaos. Seasons 8 and 9, already set, are supposed to be

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Constance Wu in Crazy Rich Asians

Brain Dump: Better Things, Good Girls, and Crazy Rich Asians

Today’s quick takes on TV shows will include Better Things and Good Girls, as well as a few thoughts on the film Crazy Rich Asians.

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Kai Shappley at age 6

Trans in America: A Documentary Series from the ACLU

Trans in America is a series of three short documentaries from the ACLU. You can watch all three on the ACLU site or on YouTube.

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Billy Bob Thornton and Nina Arianda in Goliath

Review: Goliath, season 2

Goliath, season 2, is a full on murder mystery with Billy Bob Thornton playing the semi-drunken investigator/lawyer with a heart of gold who tries to spring an innocent kid from jail.

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Alex Blue Davis in Grey's Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy Adds a Transgender Character

Grey’s Anatomy started off season 14 with some new interns. The intern Casey Parker is played by Alex Blue Davis. I was absolutely thrilled by Casey Parker and the way he came into the story.

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