“Buckle up, darlings,” warns Billy Bloom, the adolescent protagonist of “Freak Show,” with his most salacious Bette Davis sneer. “I’m gonna take you on a little ride I call my life.

Billy the Kid The freak-show aesthetic so prevalent in modern culture doesn't have a better exemplar than "Billy the Kid," Jennifer Venditti's debut doc and one of the more irresponsible eruptions ...

The funniest throwaway moment in Freak Show, an unsteady coming-of-age fantasy, finds Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther), a gay teenager with a penchant for sequins and feather boas, introducing himself ...

Here he appears as Billy in Freak Show. “Alex is just extraordinary,” says Styler. “Not only is he the central character but he literally is the movie. I owe so much to him. We shot the ...

which Billy enters as a means of expressing himself and to give some healthy competition to the wretched queen bee Lynette (Abigail Breslin). “Freak Show” is carried by a fully committed ...

Freak Show's proudly queer protagonist, Billy Bloom (Alex Lawthe), decides to run for homecoming queen. And while the new movie's depiction of bullying will feel painfully familiar to anyone who ...

Freak Show.' By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Toning down his look for the first day at his new school into something reminiscent of Culture Club-era Boy George, Billy introduces himself to the ...