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52 Tuesdays
This is the year that sees 16 year old Billie lose both her virginity and her mother. The former is impossible to retrieve, but as for the latter, its not that her mother has forsaken her, but more the fact that she has transitioned her gender. After Billie has come home from school and found her…
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Jim Morris : Lifelong Fitness
Jim Morris is a mountain of man. Now aged 78 years this charismatic body-builder has embraced veganism and is still active in L.A. as a fitness coach and a motivational force of physical energy. His story, that is only just touched on in this fascinating short movie, is one really worth telling. In 1973…
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G.B.F.
When Tanner is accidentally outed in school, whilst the other boys in his class may resort to taunting and bullying him, the girls start to seriously compete for his attention. Three of the most popular teen girls in particular believe that if Tanner would be their G (ay) B (est) F(riend), which their favorite fashion mags…
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Captivated : The Trials of Pamela Smart
In 1990 in a small New England town Pamela Smart, an attractive blond sexpot teacher who was having an affair with one of her students, was accused of plotting her husband’s murder. This rather scandalous cause celebre was the first ever trial to be televised and this new HBO documentary from filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar focuses…
