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- Movie | January 14, 2014
Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...
- Awards | January 12, 2014
2014 Golden Globe Award Winners
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler continued hosting duties for the second consecutive year for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe awards. Over the course of the award ceremony there were many big winners which include: American Hustle which...
- News | January 10, 2014
Giveaway: Blue Jasmine Blu-ray
Any film directed by Woody Allen gets us pretty excited, especially after recently proving he still has it with his wonderful 2011 film Midnight in Paris. Cate Blanchett has already received a number of nominations (Spirit Award, Golden Globes)...
- News | January 9, 2014
Coachella 2014 Lineup Revealed
The official lineup poster for the 2014 Coachella Music Festival was released last night. The highly rumored (and recently reunited) OutKast finds a spot as one of the headliners, along with Arcade Fire and Muse. The festival will continue...
- Movie | January 6, 2014
American Hustle
For American Hustle, David O. Russell assembles a cast largely comprised from his previous two crowd pleasing films, Christian Bale and Amy Adams from 2010’s The Fighter, and Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence from 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook. His...
- News | January 3, 2014
Full List of Films Released in 2013
There were a total of 964 films that were released commercially in 2013 in New York City. That is an increase of 91 films above 2012’s total. Here is the entire list alphabetically, in case you need to make...
- Features | January 1, 2014
Staff Top 10 Lists For 2013
Now that you have gotten a chance to read Way Too Indie’s Best Films of 2013, a cumulative list from our staff, check out the individual Top 10 Lists from the eight staff members that created the list. The...
- Features | December 30, 2013
Way Too Indie’s Best Films of 2013
Apparently 2013 was a good year to have the number twelve in your movie title (12 Years a Slave and Short Term 12) as well as an abstract meaning of the word color (Blue Is the Warmest Color and...
- Movie | December 30, 2013
Out of the Furnace
When you consider Out of the Furnace is packed with a star-studded cast and a director who demonstrated outstanding talent in his previous film (Crazy Heart), it is disappointing that the biggest surprise of the film is just how...
- Movie | December 26, 2013
The Spectacular Now
Considering James Ponsoldt’s first two films (Off the Black, Smashed) deal with alcoholism, it comes as no surprise that the subject is also baked into his third film, The Spectacular Now. This time around the theme is buried underneath...
- Movie | December 25, 2013
Qwerty
Bill Sebastian’s Qwerty is a modest indie romantic comedy that does not attempt to be more than what it is—a cheerful love story about two social outcasts who were destined to be together. Although the results of the film...
- Movie | December 19, 2013
This Is Martin Bonner
Chad Hartigan’s This Is Martin Bonner won the Best of NEXT Audience Award last year at the Sundance Film Festival, up against some fantastic competition (Computer Chess, Escape From Tomorrow, A Teacher, among others). Because the film is remarkably...
- Movie | December 17, 2013
Enough Said
I will shamefully admit that when I started to hear some of the buzz generated by Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said, I figured much of it was simply due to James Gandolfini’s recent death. But I am pleased to stand...
- Interview | December 12, 2013
Xackery Irving Explains the Benefits of a Small Crew in ‘Nothing Without You’
Having won an award for Best Feature in their budget category at the Toronto Independent Film Festival, director Xackery Irving proves in his latest film Nothing Without You that you do not have to sacrifice production value because of...
- Movie | December 12, 2013
Paradise: Hope
The last installment of the Paradise trilogy is Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope, a coming-of-age film about a teenage girl who develops a crush on a doctor at a camp for overweight teens. Although this film is by far Seidl’s...