Including Deadpool & Wolverine, Despicable Me 4 and a comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum – this month's unmissable movies to watch and stream. 1. Crossing Levan Akin, the Swedish-Georgian writer-director of And Then We Danced, returns with another tough but tender queer drama, Crossing.
Its 70-something heroine is Lia (Mzia Arabuli), a retired teacher who travels from Batumi in Georgia to Istanbul in Turkey in search of her estranged transgender niece. With the help of a lawyer (Deniz Dumanli) specialising in trans rights, she discovers a community she never knew existed, and which is represented here with the vivid authenticity of a documentary and the complexity of a novel. "Akin immerses the audience in the bustling Turkish capital," says Hannah Strong in Little White Lies .
"Sweet without being cloying, it's a love letter to the commonalities between Georgian and Turkish culture; one that encourages empathy and reminds us it's never too late to change for the better." Released on 19 July in the UK, the US and Ireland 2. MaXXXine Ti West's "X" series is a slasher-movie franchise like no other.
In X, Mia Goth played Maxine Minx, an aspiring adult-film star who survives a massacre on a Texan farm in 1979. Then came Pearl, which was set in 1918, but which also starred Goth as a younger incarnation of the first film's villain. And now, in MaXXXine, Goth plays Maxine again, but this time it's 1985, and she has moved to Hollywood to pursue her big-screen dre.