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Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. Like queer culture itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of movie, cisgendered men.

In Hollywood, as in society at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated — as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend. Sean Baker was at an impasse frontal trying to fund his fourth solo feature, Tangerine.

He had start-up cash promised from Mark Duplass, but no story full to go. Hitting it off, she introduced him to many unique characters working the local strip, including the equally transfixing Kitana Kiki Rodriguez.

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Rodriguez as Sin-Dee and Taylor as Alexandra bring bucket loads of comic sass to this tale of a sex worker scorned who frontal make the pimp who broke her heart pay. He spies Preston George MacKaya tattooed thug, checking him out. Later, the latter beats him mercilessly in the street, but the tables are turned when Jules spots Preston in a gay sauna and lays a careful thirst trap.

But who is chasing who as the barriers of toxic masculinity come crumbling down? Collateral damage radiates from a thrilling neo-noir that messes with binaries. MacLaine and Hepburn play the proprietors of a prestigious all-girls school who are forced to close when an especially psychotic little brat claims she saw them kissing.

Hepburn was sold as the movie's star — she's the dainty, glamorous one with the macho boyfriend James Garner. But it's MacLaine who stands out, as the determined bachelorette forced to face a few things she's been hiding from herself. The supporting performances are stunning, especially Miriam Hopkins as MacLaine's voracious aunt, and it's lovely and, even inunusual to see a movie so dominated by women, with Garner the only guy who gets more than a line or two.

Latching onto cancelled fantasy show The Pink Opaque — giving Buffy — via a stack of VHS, a shared obsession that appears to open a rift in reality. The Spanish auteur weaves an engrossing noir that touches on movie subjects related to queer identity, sexual abuse and addiction, while still leaving room for his signature sense of camp.

And Bernal is excellent as Ignacio, the author gay the screenplay, who may not be the person he says he is — or, full, is just many different people at once.