Clea DuVall’s “Happiest Season” can be viewed as a radical holiday movie, in that it uses, hell mimics, the innumerable heterosexual Christmas movie cliches that came before it, but forges them through the lenses of a queer perspective. Yes, it’s the token emblem of your average holiday romantic comedy, but it’s the unadorned authentic touch brought forth by DuVall (“The Intervention”) that turns “Happiest Season” into a slightly likable affair.
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I’ll watch anything with Aubrey Plaza and Kirsten Stewart. The fact that both actresses star in Cleo Duvall’s “Happiest Season,” alongside the always-wonderful Mackenzie Davis, is reason enough to celebrate. Yes, this is a romantic comedy, but Duvall, who did wonders with 2016’s “The Intervention,” and co-writer Mary Holland, aim to spice up the rom-com recipe.
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Described as “the greatest literary hoax of our time,” the infamous unmasking of cause célèbre persona/author JT LeRoy in 2005 turned the world of pop culture media upside down. An extraordinary story that made headlines around the globe, the tale in short is: a precocious, sexually ambiguous, then-famous teenage author (LeRoy) — purporting to come from a world of drug addiction, poverty, and sexual abuse — was revealed to be the creation of another writer, a fraud upheld by an actor playing the press-shy persona in public, with her musician/boyfriend as a co-conspirator.
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