Tag: U.S Indie Films
All Cooped Up: Haley Bennett Reteams with Producer Mollye Asher on Jackie Polzin’s “Brood”
Some folks get into getting a dog bricklaying practice the idea of family before making kids and painting fences. But what if chickens became...
Slamdance Presents Gets to First Base with Claire Carré’s “Embers”
Considered a film festival anomaly, Slamdance Presents are plucking from their own film festival in landing the distribution rights to their closing film. Claire...
L.A. Confidentiality: David Robert Mitchell Blackmails Andrew Garfield into “Under The Silver Lake”
American indie helmer David Robert Mitchell (profiled ) appears to be dropping one Cali set project for another. With the coming-of-ager and long gestating Ella Walks the Beach not...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying: STX Going Steady with Craig Johnson on “Alex Strangelove”
Wilson, his third feature film (Fox Searchlight might be looking to place it into the 2016 calendar) is in the can and now comes word...
The Films Are All Right: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Young Il Kim & Alex Timbers Preside Over “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt”
In a Variety profile piece on Daniela Taplin Lundberg (producer behind Great World of Sound, The Kids Are All Right and Beasts of No...
‘Rob’bing & Stealin: Pattinson Holds Up Safdie Bros.’ “Good Time”
Quenching his need for auteur-driven material, after recent gigs with Brady Corbet and James Gray, Robert Pattinson becomes the first player to join the Safdie Bros.'s...
Just Before I Go | Review
Drop in the Bucket: Cox’s Uneven Directorial Debut
Actress Courtney Cox makes her directorial debut with Just Before I Go, based on the first feature...
Oscilloscope Become Grounds & Gatekeepers for “Body”
A Slamdance Film Fest invitee and with a future Stanley Film Festival (3rd edition looks stellar) playdate locked up, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s well-received directorial...
Adult Beginners | Review
Arrested Development: Katz’s Debut an Affectionate Familial Dramedy
A familiar yet generally charming vehicle that impressively utilizes a pair of actors known mostly from a...
Video Interview: Denis Villeneuve (Sicario)
While some filmmakers only find out the night before, Cannes Film Festival's Thierry Frémaux informed Denis Villeneuve that he'd be part of the Main Comp...
Stripped Down: Tessa Thompson Joins McDonagh’s “War On Everyone”
Tessa Thompson's star is shining bright. Her attention-grabbing and award-winning perf (Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor) in Dear White People, led the actress down studio project avenue...
Summer of 79: Alex Ross Perry has “The Names” on Tap
If there was one item that you did not find in a video store (not excluding Kim's video) was a book to film translation...
Move It On Over: Sony Pictures Classics Bottle “I Saw the Light”
Most notably known for this producer creds (Children of Men), Marc Abraham's Hank Williams passion project has found a home with the Sony Pictures...
Listen Up Philip | Review
Philip A. Dick: Perry’s Literary Minds Stuck In a Lonely Place
Following up his dark hearted homage to road trip cinema with 2011’s The Color...
Space Station 76 | Review
Earth Below Us: Plotnick’s Debut a Sweet Space Soap Opera
Those familiar with the comedic genius of Jack Plotnick should be thrilled to see his...
The Calling | Review
Busy Signals: Stone’s Aptly Named Thriller Phones It In
There is not anything innately offensive about a really decent made-for-TV thriller, especially the type based...
Fading Gigolo | Blu-ray Review
After making a substantial profit at the box office during its Spring 2014 release (via Millennium Ent.), the mild media fury surrounding the continuing...
Very Good Girls | Review
The Boyfriend Experience: Foner’s Directorial Debut a Derivative Shard
Screenwriter Naomi Foner makes her directorial debut with Very Good Girls, though her preceding reputation...
Rage | Review
Cage Against the Machine: Cabezas’ English Debut Labors Through Borrowed Themes
Playing like the cheap echo of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, director Paco...
Kate Lyn Sheil Part of the New Breed of Indie; Boards Doremus’ “Equals”
Along the lines of when Greta Gerwig landed Greenberg and essentially moved higher up in the indie echelons, the hardworking Kate Lyn Sheil has...
Coherence | Review
Time Crimes: Byrkit’s Exercise Somewhat Overbaked by Inchoate Ideas
Fans of Shane Carruth’s blend of intelligent and hyper complicated low-fi sci-fi should certainly be interested...
The Wolf of Mean Streets; Focus Features Taps Justin Lin for Times Square
The Universal folks are keeping their enemies close and their family members in-house. Justin Lin, who has been working with asphalt skidmarks (Fast &...
A World Full of Hurt: Moniz, St. John & Dratch Join Patrick Wang’s “The Grief of Others”
The indie film world hit pay dirt when Patrick Wang began making the rounds with his debut film gem. Clocking in at almost three...
Impulse Purchase; Dimension & RADiUS-TWC Team for Alexandre Aja’s “Horns”
There'll calling it an off-beat supernatural thriller, where'll calling it a welcome departure from the filmmaker who balsted onto the scene with a great Euro-horror...
Rock out with Your C*cks Out; XLrator Books Punk Rock Homage “CBGB” for October
The genre, mostly direct-to-vid label XLrator Media have made perhaps their most noteworthy purchase yet picking up the U.S. distribution rights to Randall Miller's...
Detour | Review
Dickerson's Trapped-without-escape Ordeal Swims More Than Sinks
Utilizing a minimum amount of characters and locations within a trapped in a car, freak mudslide buried alive...
Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review
Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback
Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from...
Sahkanaga | Review
Body Works: Summerour’s Quiet Reimagining of Notable Scandal an Ambivalent Mix
For his directorial debut, John Henry Summerour fictionalizes a decade old account of a...
Hyde Park on Hudson | Review
Michell Manages FDR's Affairs, Charmingly
Roger Michell's ravishing Hyde Park on Hudson gives us a glimpse into the private life of one of our most...
Killing Them Softly | Review
What It Don’t Get I Can’t Use: Dominik’s Latest Period Piece Explores the Mob’s Economic Crises
Life imitates art, it could be argued, with Andrew...
Fat Kid Rules the World | Review
Punked Up: Lillard’s Passion Project a Worthwhile Effort
Matthew Lillard, that 1990s alternative screen teen utilized to great effect by John Waters, Wes Craven, and...
The Tortured | Review
Apt Title Foretells Effect on its Audience: Lieberman’s Absurd Attempt at Horror
Robert Lieberman’s latest film, a quaggy, moronic torture porn debacle, ironically titled The...
Girl In Progress | Review
Never Gets Beyond a Rough Draft: Riggen Receives Failing Grade
Painful. Awkward. Potentially damaging to your later development---these common traits associated with adolescence are also...
Interview: Brian Cano (A Bag of Hammers)
Brian Cano, the filmmaker behind the SXSW-selected A Bag of Hammers describes his two leading men Ben (Jason Ritter) and Alan (co-writer Jake Sandvig)...
God Bless America | Review
Bobcat Goldthwait’s pop culture manifesto fires at easy targets
Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait’s cartoonishly violent screed against cultural debasement comes from the right place but heads...
Blue Chip Thesp Logan Marshall Green Takes on Tennessee Williams Role in “Lonely Hunter”
Making this his official breakout year, Tom Hardy lookalike thesp Logan Marshall Green who'll next be seen in Prometheus, and is currently filming Black...
The Connection (1962) | Review
Shirley Clarke’s Infamous 1962 mock-doc on Junkie Squalor gets Restored
‘The Connection,’ Shirley Clarke’s 1962 mock-documentary exposé of New York’s heroin addict sub-culture, has gained...
Louis-Dreyfus Has Affair with Gandolfini; Holofcener Teams with Fox Searchlight for her 5th Feature Film
An expert in the human condition, Nicole Holofcener is returning to a theme she knows best: relationship woes. One of the rare indie female...
Tribeca Film Get Custody on “For Ellen”
A good four months since its back to back Sundance and Berlin Film Festival premieres, So Yong Kim has finally secured a U.S theatrical/VOD release...
Kelly Reilly Takes a Bite out of the Hilary Brougher Directed “Innocence”
We had lost sight of Hilary Brougher and for a while now, we lost sight of a project that we figured would be filming...
Interview: Andrew Dosunmu (Restless City)
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We were thrilled to see Andrew Dosunmu’s latest film, Restless City, his first film since his 1999, Hot Irons, show up as part of...
Hook Line and Sinker; Variance Teams with Spike Lee for “Red Hook Summer”
A full four months after it premiered in Park City to mostly thumbs down type reviews, Deadline reports that Spike Lee will be joining...
Interview: Ti West (The Innkeepers)
Jordan Smith: The Innkeepers comes out on DVD/Blu-ray today, but it was available on VOD for a month before it arrived in theaters. How...
The Innkeepers | Blu-ray Review
Working within the walls of a genre over stuffed with recycled extremism, writer/director/editor Ti West's horror films are refreshingly retro. Rather than trying to...
4:44 Last Day On Earth | Review
Forget the hype: Ferrara’s end-of-the-world reverie puts other apocalypse movies to shame
The countdown to the apocalypse becomes a celebratory wake in Abel Ferrara’s transcendent...
I Am Not A Hipster | Review
Guitars and Ash At Odds With The World
Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton follows up his award winning short, Short Term 12, with a personal reflection...
