Review: In 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline,' nihilism is optimism | Movies | Detroit
Inspired by the 2021 nonfiction manifesto of the same name, the film plays out like a heist drama
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Inspired by the 2021 nonfiction manifesto of the same name, the film plays out like a heist drama
What’s the cure for apathy? In “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” the tight, new environmentalist thriller from “Cam” director Daniel Goldhaber, the answer is direct action. Goldhaber and co-writers Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol look to Andreas Malm’s book of the same name to construct a thesis about prope
The heist film is dying out. What used to be the domain of directors interested in genre and ideological experimentation has instead been replaced by the filmic equivalent of tepid water. Movies like “The Killing” used to be plentiful, blending political themes such as the economic subjugation with white knuckle filmmaking. These days, such a...
Set in Texas, Daniel Goldhaber’s tense drama probes the moral complexity of a group of protesters sabotaging oil infrastructure
How To Blow Up A Pipeline is a rallying call for a bolder, more radical style of activism. ‘It’s [about] being energised,’ the director explains. ‘It’s still possible to fight against this devastating situation that we’re in’