The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
The last time Stewart Thorndike made a horror film, it was 2014’s Lyle, a lesbian take on Rosemary’s Baby. That’s a reductive description since the film is much more than an extended homage, but the log line certainly makes it an easy sell for genre fans.
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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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