The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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It’s shocking how difficult it is to pull off a noir detective vibe without coming off as cheesy and/or losing the tone. So it’s a credit to The Phantom Detective that it is so damn entertaining.
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At least once a year at Fantasia Fest, a film comes along like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, promising genre conventions and eschewing them for something altogether different. That’s Embers.
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Hot on the heels of its explosive debut at Cannes and its record breaking opening in South Korea, Train To Busan proved its mettle to a sold-out Fantasia Fest audience.
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What if the Invisible Man relocated to northern Canada and became a compelling combination of a crime film and a family drama? That’s The Unseen.
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July is no June (thank heavens), but there’s still a choice selection of new and returning shows vying for your precious eyeball time as we head into the heart of the summer.
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Our final film review of the 2016 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival is Kiki (2016), a documentary by Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garcon about voguing in NY.
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On the eve of the world debut of their feature-length fiction film Hurricane Bianca at the 2016 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Roy Haylock, the real life persona of drag queen Bianca Del Rio and his close friend, director Matt Kugelman, sat down with me to discuss their opinions about making a film about homophobia in Texas, what it means to be crowdfunded and how the film got Bianca in trouble with the folks at Drag Race.
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Our coverage of the 2016 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival continues with Ira Sachs’ Little Men, a slice of life drama about the intrusion of adult problems into the lives of teens.
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Our coverage of the 2016 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival begins with Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo, a sweet “meet cute” romance that dispenses with the sexual tension and titillation early on in order to focus on the real drama of a burgeoning relationship.
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