Bisexual man robs a bank to pay for his partner’s gender-affirming surgery? Icon behavior.

Sidney Lumet’s DOG DAY AFTERNOON isn’t just a riveting slice of 1970s cinema — it’s a wild, sweaty, chaotic, and unexpectedly progressive time capsule of real-life queer history. The film dramatizes the infamous 1972 Brooklyn bank heist by John Wojtowicz (renamed Sonny Wortzik here, played by a manic and magnetic Al Pacino), but make no mistake: it leans hard into the drama while taking plenty of…

A clear precursor to EDEN LAKE and CHILDREN OF THE CORN, ’WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?’ is grimy, mean, and unsettling. Where King’s tale indulges in supernatural lore, this film strips it down to something colder and more believable: children, warped by the violence of adults, turning the brutality back on them.

The opening montage—real black-and-white war footage—makes it clear: children are often the silent, forgotten victims of humanity’s atrocities. And in this story, they finally take the stage, not…