Yes, yes, we know that all unhappy families are unique, thank you very much Count Tolstoy, but even that truth doesn't necessarily prepare us for meeting the Baekelands. The more or less true facts ...

Tom Kalin‘s 1992 film “Swoon” was a noteworthy entry in the New Queer Cinema canon not because of its subject matter but how Kalin navigated such precarious terrain. A recouping of the Leopold and ...

Tom Kalin’s Savage Grace recounts the (true) cautionary tale of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Julianne Moore), a not too worldly but socially ambitious beauty whose abandonment by her husband (Stephen ...

The story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed, charismatic, Barbara is still not a match for her ...

Tony doesn't have it easy. Even as a child, his mother is unfaithful - and as an adult, his father sees him as a failure. It's easy for him to try drugs, sleep with men, and waste time... But even the ...