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Trailer for LGBTQ Film ‘All Shall Be Well’ About a Hong Kong Family

"If Pat was still here, she would have agreed with me." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for an indie film titled All Shall Be Well set in Hong Kong, made by the filmmaker Ray Yeung. This sapphic drama originally premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and it also played at the Hong Kong, Seattle, and Sydney Film Festivals. Angie & Pat (starring Patra Au & Lin-Lin Li, respectively) are a lesbian couple living in Hong Kong who have been together for over 4 decades. After Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of her extended family as she struggles to retain both her dignity as well as the home that they shared for over thirty years. Also starring Tai-Bo, So-Ying Hui, Chung-Hang Leung, Fish Liew, & Rachel Leung. Reviews say that the film takes "the approachable genre of the family drama and [places] it in the context of topical issues in today’s queer Hong Kong." It will be opening in limited US theaters sometime soon if anyone wants to watch this. Check ...
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Lambcast #737 Horizon An American Saga Chapter 1

Actor/Director Kevin Costner returns to the big screen with an ambitious series of films, tracking the expansion of the United States into the Western part of the continent. Told from the perspective of several different characters, the story is a fictionalized version of history, presented in the manner of a novel. Some of the critical responses target the structure of the film, but our panel finds it evocative and creatively justified.

Howard Casner of “Pop Art” and Todd Liebenow of “The Forgotten Filmcast, …

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Why ‘MaXXXine’ Lives Down to Its Seedy Roots

Director Ti West and Mia Goth proved the perfect horror movie combo with “X” and “Pearl.” West’s retro vision wouldn’t work without someone as committed as Goth in front of the camera. She proved that in the first two films of his genre trilogy, with “Pearl” giving Goth the tour de force platform actresses crave. …

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