From The Advocate December-January 2011
The Best Overlooked Films
The Advocate asked our readers to tell us their favorite but overlooked films you shouldn't have missed in 2011.
By Advocate Contributors

http://www.advocate.com/Print_Issue/Features/The_Best_Overlooked_Films/

Tomboy, directed by Céline Sciamma
A winning French tale about a 10-year-old who lives as a girl or a boy depending on the people around.

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Gun Hill Road, directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green
A searing drama about a transgender teen's relationship with her convict father.

Back in the 1980s, when VHS rentals were just beginning to take off, the direct to video shelf of your local video store earned a well deserved reputation as a place to avoid.  It quickly became a stop of last resort for all but the most adventurous renters, a dumping ground for unwatchable foreign horror movies, laugh-free comedies and Lorenzo Lamas action flicks.  However, every so often a movie would show up on the DTV shelf that actually had some entertainment value.  One of these was Charles Band's TRANCERS, a low budget riff on the previous year's THE TERMINATOR that managed to hide its lack of big action set pieces by substituting a clever script, good acting and quite a bit of humor.