By Hook or By Crook
By Jeffery Berg June 11, 2026
This newly restored, San Francisco–set trans and butch buddy movie is a fresh, invigorating jolt and an intimate glimpse of marginalized, yet commanding, characters from a bygone era.
This newly restored, San Francisco–set trans and butch buddy movie is a fresh, invigorating jolt and an intimate glimpse of marginalized, yet commanding, characters from a bygone era.
Though set in the pre-app, agonizing phone-waiting days of the past, the movie’s themes and struggles remain impactful and relevant.
A groundbreaking work of queer cinema that warrants reexamination, as well as the attention of new viewers.
A potential love story between a seemingly unlikely pair: a White, straight, taciturn Essex mechanic and a gay Indian drag queen.
Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.
Life can turn around with an airborne feather, a chicken dance, and an oldie or two.
A 25-year-old up-and-coming writer moonlights as a sex worker and relays his hook-ups in his work-in-progress novel.
One of the most cringeworthy and accurate films of adolescence since Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade.