Trans kids generally know who they are, even when they are very young. They don’t tell their families they want to be a gender different from their body parts. They say they are that gender, and it is usually their families who have to reframe their understanding of the boy or girl they thought they …

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Win a copy of “Atomic Blonde,” one of 2017’s most intense action films, starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy. Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Atomic in the subject line and tell me your favorite spy story. Don’t forget your address! (US addresses only). I’ll pick a winner at random on May 1, 2018.

Twenty years ago, Champaign, Illinois native Roger Ebert began what was then called the “overlooked” film festival, following a very successful screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” on the campus of the University of Illinois to celebrate the birth of the HAL computer. According to the film HAL began at the university on January 12, …

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Amy Schumer shines in I Feel Pretty, an adorable fantasy that both draws from and slyly subverts the classic Cinderella story. I’ve written before about the “makeover movie.” From the original Cinderella fairy tale to movies that range from “The Breakfast Club” to “Gigi” to “Clueless,” “Princess Diaries,” and “Now, Voyager.” There is something thrilling …

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Filmstruck asked the Twitterverse: What four films define you? Check out all the great answers from filmmakers, actors, critics, and filmlovers. See mine below: