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A journalist infiltrated a doomsday cult. What he found could foretell the future.
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Queer director Zal Batmanglij and his frequent collaborator, writer/actress Brit Marling, deserve more attention as one of the most interesting collaborative voices in Hollywood today. As the team behind the Netflix series The OA and the underrated thriller The East, the pair manage to craft intriguing, mysterious, and socially relevant stories that beg difficult moral questions…and that always include LGBTQ characters in some form.Take, for example, Song of My Voice, the very first feature film upon which the two partnered.