In just one week, Bree Osbourne will finally have gender affirmation surgery. But before that happens, she receives a call from a seventeen-year-old named Toby, who is looking for the father he never met — the father who Toby doesn’t yet know was never his father. Bree is the woman who impregnated Toby’s mom.
Uncertain whether to tell Toby the truth about her identity, she takes Toby with her on a road trip across America, never losing sight of her goal to make it back to LA for her gender affirmation surgery, but increasingly conflicted about whether to reveal to her son that he has two biological mothers.
Her Story is a 6-episode new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity. Lily Wachowski, writer/director/filmmaker for The Matrix, Sens8, and Cloud Atlas, said of the series: “Not just unique, it is revolutionary.”
Brothers is a critically-acclaimed short-form narrative series that follows a group of transgender male friends, exploring what it means to go up against traditional societal gender roles. Indiewire listed the series in their Best of Indie TV. The Advocate said it was “among the boldest and frankest representations of trans male love on-screen to date.”
lol this thread has basically become my movie newsletter, for better or worse.
I got myself a Shudder subscription for October and basically binged all the 2022 horror films that were getting good reviews. Was really impressed with Shudder’s lineup of indie horror but I can’t justify getting another streaming service when I already have Netflix, HBO, and Criterion.
I hear you. The awful thing for a media glutton like me is that a lot of these platforms now have great exclusive catalogs.
How would you rank each streaming service? Feel free to add to the list.
HBO
Shudder
Netflix
Criterion
Tubi
Pluto
Hulu
Prime
YouTube
fuboTV
Peacock
Paramount+
Starz
FX
Crackle
Roku
Vudu
Kanopy
Apple
Disney+
I browse through JustWatch to keep up with the catalogs. Sometimes you see a platform is really investing in their content, or they get one or two movies worth a free trial or re-upping for just one month.
Other times a free but ad-based place like Tubi or Pluto gets streaming rights to stuff you’d never think would be free.
I’ve become a massive film snob/nerd lately, so Criterion is mandatory for the pretentious stuff I like to watch now, including lots of classic noir. It’s pricy, idk if I would recommend it for anyone else.
HBOMax is basically so I can keep up with all of the hit shows everyone else is talking about, like Succession and White Lotus and whatnot. It’s solid value imo.
I have been a Netflix member since way back when it was for DVDs. I should probably cancel but I watch it just enough to stay with it. Mostly I watch anime and Spanish language stuff and occasionally there’s a hit show like Dahmer that’s really good.
Only had Shudder for a month but I was impressed. Very good for indie horror, cheesy B-movie horror and other stuff I like.
YouTubeTV I had for a few months a few years ago. It’s really great as a replacement for cable TV and for sports, DVR features are excellent. It’s also very expensive and I hardly ever watch sports these days.
Other services I don’t know enough about to comment.
Also, I have a cheap antenna to pick up local broadcast so I can watch Jeopardy and Svengoolie and local sports.
Did not like but did appreciate how innovative it became. Interesting too reading about the sequels and the French remake that’s actually a sequel acknowledging the real-world existence of the first movie???
I think I needed to know how the story would be structured. I thought the opening would be sustained as the entire premise, and that reminded me of the similarly good but didn’t do it for me Unhuman.
Important story of Weinstein’s downfall and the women he abused, but kinda meh as a movie. You can get the same story told by some of the actual victims in half the time from the Frontline episode about him.
