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“Stonewall Uprising” The title says it all. This 2011 documentary directed by David Heilbroner and Kate Davis, details the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The three-day uprising, which was sparked after police raided a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, launched the modern day gay rights movement. You can rent “Stonewall Uprising” on Prime Video or purchase the film on DVD. “We Can Be Gay Today” Released in 2014, “We Can Be Gay Today” takes audiences inside the struggle for equality in Lithuania, one of the most homophobic states in the European Union....

In a new interview with the Sunday Times (via Yahoo), Brody reminisced about his 2003 Oscar win for his performance in “The Pianist.” That year, the Academy Awards were held on March 23, just four days after the United States began its invasion of Iraq. With much of Hollywood uniformly opposed to the war, the invasion cast a shadow that loomed over the entire ceremony. But it was almost much more prominent, as Brody revealed that Nicholson attempted to organize a boycott of the show....

The festival announced that DuVernay had selected three independent films from female directors to showcase: Kat Candler’s “Hellion” from 2014, Aurora Guerrero’s “Mosquita y Mari” from 2012, and Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky” from 2011. All three women went on to direct episodes of DuVernay’s OWN series “Queen Sugar.” DuVernay will also moderate a panel featuring all three directors at the festival. AFI Fest 2022 is set to take place in Los Angeles from November 2 through November 6....

The trailer for A24 and Showtime’s “After Yang” has debuted, giving fans a sneak peek at Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith as parents who struggle to cope with the loss of an android child. Writer-director Kogonada’s second feature premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and recently played in the Spotlight section at Sundance. Based on a short story by Alexander Weinstein, the futuristic tale centers around android Yang (Justin H....

James Cameron’s long-awaited “Avatar” sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” splashes into theaters December 16. The follow-up feature focuses on the Sully family — Jake (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their children — as their land becomes torn apart. Per an official synopsis, the Sully family endures danger, battles to the death, and tragedy throughout the film. The couple is displaced from their homes and flees to the Metkayina’s waterworld, which disrupts tribal politics....

“You inevitably turn into what people think you are,” someone opines a few hours (or years) into Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” a movie so nakedly personal in spite of its epic scope that even the most benign stray comments betray the sting of self-flagellation. And yet there’s a reason why this one manages to break the skin. By this point in the film’s oneiric non-story, it’s already clear that Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) — a journalist turned documentarian who returns to Mexico a few days before he’s scheduled to receive a major industry award in his adopted home of Los Angeles — is a stand-in for the Oscar-winning auteur behind the camera, who’s shooting an entire movie in his birth country for the first time since “Amores Perros” catapulted him to fame 22 years ago....

At 11 a.m. ET March 1, Disney+ surprised fans by bringing over all six Marvel series originally produced for Netflix — gratuitous violence, curse words and all — with a new TV-MA setting in the typically family-friendly streaming service’s parental controls. Exactly 60 hours later, Disney+ revealed that a brand new (and cheaper) ad-supported version — aka AVOD — will roll out in the U.S. later this year, with international territories to follow in 2023....