Cowboys Reminds Us That the Kids Are Alright It s the Parents Who Need to Get It Together Directed by Anna Kerrigan
Starring Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Sasha Knight
Cowboys play out like a Jimmy Stewart Western
The Cheyenne Social Club, to be exact. Two figures riding on a single horse through an expansive wilderness, underneath the biggest sky you can imagine. But stick with it a bit longer and it ll tug at your heart strings in a way Stewart, despite his drawl, never could. A compelling and beautifully-framed and performed tale of a trans boy who just wants to be a cowboy,
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t
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Writer-director Anna Kerrigan’s western-tinged “Cowboys” feels like the right movie at the right time. This tough and tender tale, which pits big-hearted, bipolar Dad Troy (an excellent Steve Zahn), and his 11-year-old transgender son, Joe (newcomer Sasha Knight), against an insulated world of traditional values and expectations, should grip, move and surprise viewers in equal measure.
The film, set in present-day Montana, effectively uses flashbacks to outline the patchy relationship between the spirited, impulsive Troy; his more pragmatic wife, Sally (Jillian Bell); and their angelic child, who believes he was born in the wrong body and yearns to present as his true self.
ROCKLAND The Strand Theatre continues to present new release films to stream from their website. Five films will be available throughout the month of February. Rams is set in remote Western Australia, where two estranged brothers, Colin.