When I was in high school, a YouTuber uploaded a parody trailer for The Shining , recut as a heartwarming, father-son comedy. All it took was a well-placed “Solsbury Hill” needle drop, along with some clever editing and a cloying new voice-over, and the Stanley Kubrick horror classic now feels family-friendly. I was thinking about that parody trailer and the ways in which a filmmaker can manipulate her viewer as I was watching Dolls , a new short film written and directed by Geena Rocero and produced by Lilly Wachowski. It concerns a private investigator who’s been sent to infiltrate a purported cult that claims to be a self-help group, exclusively for trans women. (From Louise Weard’s latest Castration Movie installment to Grace Byron’s new novel, Herculine , separatist po

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