Dustin Jansick
660 articles written by Dustin Jansick
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Indie Film’s Top 7 Pin-Up Girls
Way Too Indie outlines our favorite “Indie Film Pin-Up Girls” that include; Brit Marling, Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Olsen, Miranda July and more.
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Watch: Starlet trailer
Starlet is an indie drama that tells a story about an unconventional friendship that begins when 21 year-old Jane discovers a hidden stash of money from an object she purchased from an elderly woman named Sadie. Many who have...
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2012 Chicago International Film Festival Coverage Recap
A recap of Way Too Indie coverage of the 2012 Chicago International Film Festival. A breakdown of each day at the festival.
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Watch: Room 237 trailer
It’s been over thirty years since Stanley Kubrick gave us the fantastic horror film The Shining, which still ranks up as one of my all-time favorite horror films. After all these years the film is still being studied and...
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CIFF 2012 Day 5: Empire Builder & Not Fade Away
My last day at the Chicago International Film Festival started out with Kris Swanberg who was there to introduce Empire Builder and a short Q&A afterwards. She introduced the film by saying that it is a very personal film....
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CIFF 2012 Day 4: Once Upon A Time Was I, Veronica & Beyond The Hills
I started out my forth day at the festival with Once Upon A Time Was I, Veronica which I purposely went in without knowing a whole lot about it. Part of what makes film festivals fun is to walk...
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CIFF 2012 Day 3: Flowerbuds – Alaskaland – Paradise: Love
Day 3 had both my favorite and least film from the festival thus far. Find out which one succeeded and which one fell flat. Films consisted of Flowerbuds, Alaskaland and Paradise: Love.
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CIFF 2012 Day 2: War Witch – Like Someone In Love – After Lucia
Day 2 became the day of hard films to watch but only because of their subject matters and emotional punches they threw. The three films that I saw today where War Witch, Like Someone In Love, and finally After...
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CIFF 2012 Day 1: Holy Motors
My first day at the Chicago International Film Festival one is a relatively light one considering that I will only be seeing one film. That film happens to be the one I am most excited to see here, Holy...
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2012 Chicago International Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Fall is a great time to watch films. The combination of the days beginning to get colder and the nights getting longer makes the perfect excuse for staying inside to watch films. Festival season is now in full swing...
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Pusher
To start out I should state that I have not seen the original cult classic that Pusher is remade from. Therefore, I am not able to answer the age-old question as to whether or not it stands up to...
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Giveaway: Moonrise Kingdom Blu-ray Prize Pack
We have got two Blu-ray copies of Wes Anderson’s quirky indie hit Moonrise Kingdom to give away to a couple of our Facebook and Twitter followers. As a bonus, one of those winners will receive a special “Survival Package”...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild on Blu-ray & DVD December 4th
The best film I have seen all year so far, Beasts of the Southern Wild, just got a released date from Fox Home Entertainment. It will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on December 4th, 2012. Along with...
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Sound of My Voice
Sound of My Voice an intelligent slow burning indie drama that somehow fell off many people’s radar despite a relatively warm reception at Sundance. The logical answer would be that it may have been slightly overshadowed by lead Brit...
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Funny Games
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games is a shot by shot and line by line remake of his own 1997 film of the same title only with a different cast and with English dialog instead of German. Even the set of...