The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
Accusations that superhero movies are derivative, unoriginal, or uninspired are firmly quashed with the release of Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson‘s Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse.
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In the first scene of writer/director Trevor Anderson‘s feature debut, a new student arrives at school and refuses to sit on either the “girl” side or the “boy” side of a PE sex education class.
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With a log line like “An Indian father takes his transgender son on a road trip across South Africa to rescue his son’s long-lost mother from a rehab clinic”, Runs in the Family already sounds like a good time.
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Coming out stories are a common feature of LGBT cinema, so it’s hard to make a contemporary film stand out. Golden Delicious, the feature film debut from director Jason Karman and screenwriter Gorrman Lee, doesn’t do much to shake up the formula, though it has enough charm and emotion to satisfy.
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There’s an economy of storytelling to How To Blow Up a Pipeline, which wastes no time jumping right into the meat of the story.
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