The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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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The new LGBT erotic thriller ‘Femme’ offers a controversial take on the aftermath of a hate crime that navigates the line between revenge…and a burgeoning romance between perpetrator and survivor.
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Penelope Cruz plays an idolized housewife contending with familial conflict in trans filmmaker Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità.
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One of the buzzy queer films playing at Sundance is a biopic of trail-blazing gay lucha libre star Cassandro.
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