Kelis – FoodBy Max Freedman First, let’s address the elephant in the room. You’re on a website called Way Too Indie, where you’re reading a review of the newest album by Kelis, the artist...
WatermarkBy Bernard Boo Filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky (Manufactured Landscapes) bottle the immense power and omnipresence of water, earth’s mightiest element, in their stunningly cinematic film Watermark. Assembling jaw-dropping footage of rivers,...
Only Lovers Left AliveBy Bernard Boo You couldn’t ask for two actors better suited to play a couple of sharp-featured, hipster vampire lovers than Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, two actors who’ve hit the absolute...
OculusBy C.J. Prince Don't be fooled by Paranormal Activity and Insidious getting mentioned in the marketing for Oculus. While those films (or, more specifically, their franchises) are about big jolts and loud...
Mistaken for StrangersBy Dustin Jansick Considering Mistaken for Strangers centers around the well-known indie rock band The National (the title of the documentary comes from one of their songs), it would be safe to...
Under the SkinBy Bernard Boo Jonathan Glazer’s otherworldly Under the Skin feels somehow…forbidden. Hyper-artistic movies like this are a rare species, unwelcome in the tentpole Hollywood landscape. And yet, at the center of the film is one...
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to EdenBy Bernard Boo Paradise goes up in flames in The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a stranger-than-fiction murder mystery in documentary form. There’s something fascinatingly bizarre about the events surrounding the unexplained...
Todd Terje – It’s Album TimeBy Max Freedman Todd Terje was probably born in the late 1970s, so it’s interesting that his music sounds like a lost document from that era. More than that, though, Terje’s entire...
The ReunionBy C.J. Prince Anna Odell’s The Reunion is split into two distinct halves, each half appearing to be directly inspired by a different film. The first half, called “The Speech”, clearly owes...
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2By Nik Grozdanovic A complimentary companion to Volume 1 while distinctly upping the ante in both shock and style.
Cuban FuryBy Bernard Boo Nick Frost, best known as Simon Pegg’s tubby partner in crime in the “Cornetto Trilogy” (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End), casts his own shadow in Cuban Fury, an...
Sharkmuffin – 1097 EPBy Max Freedman As of April 2013, Sharkmuffin were kind of like the Dr. Octagon of the garage rock, noise pop, and lo-fi scenes. Their She-Gods of Champagne Valley EP they released...
On My WayBy Bernard Boo What’s surprising about On My Way, a latter-life crisis road trip film starring Catherine Deneuve, is that the film flounders and fumbles while the French living legend is alone at...
BarefootBy Kandyss Hicks Andrew Fleming’s Barefoot falls short of being both an intriguing and emotionally moving film. Coming from a director credited for cult classics such as The Craft and Dick, I...
