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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Funeral Kings, Rio Bravo, Bicycle Thieves
Features | Bernard Boo | January 24, 2014Welcome to this week’s edition of Weekend Streaming Recommendations! It’s a bit of a grab bag this week, but I rep each of these films to the fullest. From little-known indie gem Funeral Kings, to the delightful doc Kings of Pastry,...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Supporting Actress
Features | Dustin Jansick | January 24, 2014It appears as if the Best Supporting Actress race will be between Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong’o, and with the latter recently winning at the Screen Actor Guild, we have her slightly nudging out J-Law for the win. But...
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Overlooked Films of 2013
Features | C.J. Prince | January 22, 2014With 2013 all wrapped up, the beginning of 2014 will be the same as every other year. Like late August/early September, January is a dumping ground for studios. Usually the only things worth seeing this month (and for most...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: The Square, Tall as the Baobab Tree, Blackfish
Features | Bernard Boo | January 17, 2014For this week’s batch of Weekend Streaming Recommendations, I’ve chosen to pick a quartet of excellent documentaries, but with an added bonus: To enhance your viewing pleasure, I’ve included interviews I conducted with the films’ directors and subjects! It’s...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Drinking Buddies, The Apartment, American Psycho, & More
Features | Bernard Boo | January 10, 2014With the slew of movies Netflix cut at the close of 2013 (Brick, Requiem For a Dream, Being John Malkovich especially hurt to see go, though there were many others), and an influx of equally awesome films rushing in to fill in...
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Way Too Indie’s Favorite Movie Scenes From 2013
Features | C.J. Prince | January 2, 20142013 was filled with plenty of tremendous films, and just as many memorable moments. As a companion to our Best Films of 2013 list, we asked our staff to come up with some of their favorite moments in movies...
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Staff Top 10 Lists For 2013
Features | Dustin Jansick | January 1, 2014Now 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...
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5 Absolutely Insane Things About ‘The Visitor’
Features | C.J. Prince | December 31, 2013Drafthouse Films is doing terrific work with its re-releases of old, lost cult classics and undiscovered gems. Now another film lost in time is getting some nice exposure, with a release across Drafthouse theaters in America. With the Canadian...
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Way Too Indie’s Best Films of 2013
Features | Dustin Jansick | December 30, 2013Apparently 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...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Hoop Dreams, Spring Breakers, & More
Features | Blake Ginithan | December 13, 2013Our streaming recommendations this weekend our Spring Breakers, Oldboy, and the amazing sports doc Hoop Dreams.
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Our Favorite Childhood Movies
Features | Bernard Boo | November 27, 2013As we’re caught in the middle of the whirlwind that is the holiday season, many of us will be traveling great distances, arguing with our families at the dinner table, receiving shitty gifts we have to pretend to like,...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Only God Forgives, Brick, & More
Features | Blake Ginithan | November 23, 2013Welcome the feature where I recommend 4-5 under watched, under-appreciated or films that I just personally love. My goal is to take the hassle out of deciding on which film to stream on the plethora of streaming sites that...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Run Lola Run, Graceland, & More
Features | Blake Ginithan | November 15, 2013We’ve all been there. We sit on our couch for minutes on end trying to find something to watch. Heck, one time I was on Netflix looking for something to watch and before I knew it, 40 minutes had...
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A Hijacking / Captain Phillips: A Look At Two Remarkably Gripping Pirate Movies
Features | Jansen Aui | November 14, 2013In light of Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips — in which Tom Hanks’ performance is the tip of an iceberg of Oscar winning collaborators involved in a terse, modern-day piracy movie — the far fewer-studded Danish thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen)...