If this charming, sparkling grindhouse gem doesn’t warm the cockles of your heart, well, you must be cursed! Cursed like sex worker AP, who gets this unwelcome diagnosis from a tarot-card wielding medium. To get rid of her evil spell, she must cough up one grand plus a sacrificial lamb, and so AP and her ex Danni embark on an odyssey through the underbelly of Trashtown—from coked-out sex parties to a DJ’s treacherous villa. Annapurna Sriram’s directorial debut is as wild, kinky, and kooky as it is tender, queer, and sensitive, full of iridescent characters, comedy, and nonconformist chutzpa—shot in gloriously grainy 16 mm and drenched in the bewitchingly murky Louisiana summer haze. (Matthias Eckkrammer)