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225 articles written by Ananda Dillon
- Movie | July 16, 2014
Premature
If comedic Hollywood has anything to say about it, sex, and its pursuit, is pretty much all the average teenager has going on in life. What’s unfortunate for all those producing films for the teen comedy genre is that vulgarity envelope...
- News | July 15, 2014
Benecio Del Toro Intimidates the Heck Out of Us in ‘Paradise Lost’
Actor turned writer-director Andrea di Stefano doesn’t yet have a U.S. release date set for his film Paradise Lost, but in the meantime we have a glimpse of Benecio Del Toro as Pablo Escobar, the infamous drug lord in the newly...
- News | July 15, 2014
Robin Wright Gets Immortalized in New Clip From ‘The Congress’
It’s hard to imagine an out of work, undesirable version of Robin Wright (congrats on that second Emmy nomination, girl), but that’s the beginning premise of Ari Folman‘s (Waltz with Bashir) new film The Congress. After gaining a reputation...
- Movie | July 11, 2014
Boyhood
With last year’s Before Midnight being clearly one of the best of 2013 (at least in our opinion), it would seem Richard Linklater, whose films can be somewhat hit or miss (Me and Orson Welles was a bit more...
- News | July 10, 2014
Watch: Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Oscar Bait ‘Unbroken’
Angelina Jolie launches herself into the Oscar race with her latest directorial entree Unbroken. As if perfecting Disney villainess status wasn’t impressive enough, Angie’s efforts behind the camera have been wholly ambitious as she continuously tackles stories of war and inhumane situations....
- News | July 8, 2014
Watch: Trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
Christian Bale‘s Moses calls down a world of hurt for Joel Edgerton‘s Rhamses in the freshly released trailer for Ridley Scott‘s new biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings.With plenty of graphic effect, the plagues have never looked so threatening...
- Movie | July 8, 2014
Very Good Girls
A well iced cake can look quite pretty, but if it’s undercooked it won’t taste very good. Naomi Foner’s directorial debut Very Good Girls has some delicious icing, including excellent performances from Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen, and plenty...
- News | July 7, 2014
‘The Conjuring’ Spinoff ‘Annabelle’ Set for October Release
It appears the weekend of October 3rd is going to be quite creepy this year. If the psychological suspense of David Fincher’s Gone Girl isn’t your style, (check out the new trailer released today), then a feature-length film starring the...
- News | July 7, 2014
Watch: Fincher Puts His Eerie Mark on ‘Gone Girl’ in New Trailer
Always a master at handling ominous material, 20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for David Fincher’s Gone Girl. The highly anticipated novel adaptation stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as Nick and Amy Dunne, a married couple...
- Features | July 7, 2014
The Mainstream: June Recap & July Preview
We may seem like reclusive budget-shirking obscure film enthusiasts over here at Way Too Indie, and well, some of us are, but we’re not living in any dark holes and far be it from of us to say that...
- Features | July 3, 2014
A Hard Day’s Night Get’s the Criterion 50th Anniversary Restoration It Deserves
When it was released in 1964, Time magazine called A Hard Day’s Night “One of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made for purposes of exploitation.” It’s hard to find a modern cultural equivalent. Clearly the multiple Justin Bieber documentaries or...
- Movie | June 23, 2014
Coherence
James Ward Byrkit’s resume doesn’t do much to explain his first feature. With a smattering of shorts, video game writing, and storyboard artistry as his only experience, it’s understandable why he might choose what would seem the easy route...
- Film Festival | June 21, 2014
LAFF 2014 Closing Night: Jersey Boys
A little more on the biopic spectrum than a lavish stage-to-screen production as most cinematized musicals tend to be, Jersey Boys evokes the same nostalgia putting on a record of The Four Seasons would illicit but tends to lose steam...
- Film Festival | June 21, 2014
LAFF 2014: Dear White People
Before Wednesday’s Los Angeles Film Festival Gala Screening of Dear White People, director Justin Simien, along with exec-producer Stephanie Allain, told white members of the audience that they were absolutely “allowed to laugh”. An ominous sort of joke, but...
- Film Festival | June 18, 2014
LAFF 2014: They Came Together
Those who understand and appreciate the humor of David Wain and Michael Showalter have no doubt been anticipating They Came Together, the first film the duo has worked on together since Wet Hot American Summer, their TV endeavors aside....