Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.The Best Actress category at this year’s Oscars could go any number of ways as titan actors Viola Davis, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan race for the finish line.
Perhaps most amazing of all, a woman with no acting experience seems to keep the pace alongside them: Andra Day.Leave it to Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels to create a film as daring and wild as The United States vs.
Billie Holiday. The movie recounts the final years of bisexual singer Billie Holiday as she struggles with heroin and sex addiction…not to mention a decades-long vendetta by the racist US anti-drug Czar Harry Anslinger (Garett.