Hi, I’m Mey Rude and I’m here with your all new official Out Newsletter! I’ve been covering queer pop culture as a writer for over a decade now, and at Out for four years!

As a lesbian and a trans...

Wake up, babe… a Schitt’s Creek reboot update just dropped.

Though Dan Levy is currently focused on other projects like his directorial debut film Good Grief, fans are always clamoring for news...

When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Scott Frantz came out to the nation as gay, he shared that his teammates (to whom he'd come out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the...

My Son Hunter brings scruples to political satire.

David O. Russell risks an eccentric vision of American democracy.

With its warnings against government tyranny and ideological cultists, Costa-Gavras’s classic film The Confession is newly relevant.

France’s César-winning critique of ambition and journalism.

Siegfried Sassoon drama stunningly merges biopic and autobiography.

Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson take another step forward in their exemplary careers.

The new urban-ethnic sitcom delivers gallows humor and condescension.

Justin Kurzel goes deeper than the ‘gun violence’ cliché.

Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. (Searchlight Pictures) Jessica Chastain’s utter failure

Jessica Chastain’s...

Will Smith accepts the Best Actor Oscar for King Richard at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., March 27, 2022. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) New Black Hollywood is resetting...

Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth. (A24) A woke, Oscar-ready Shakespeare update

The tragedy of Joel Coen’s Tragedy of Macbeth is...

Ava DuVernay attends Variety’s 2021 Power of Women event in Beverly Hills, Calif., September 30, 2021. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Tokenism and demagoguery — but no filmmaking...

Flee (NEON) Fantasy and propaganda define the new crop of docs beloved by cultural elites.

The catastrophe that is contemporary journalism is perfectly...

A new German film favors true liberation over sanitized progressive politics.

The lockdown is a three-ring circus, starring tech overlords and trapped, obsequious humans.

Nicole Kidman salvages Aaron Sorkin’s propaganda.

The 1978 cult film predicted the rebellion against Covid tyranny.