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2013 LA Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Film Festival | Jacob Tishler | June 12, 2013I’m very excited to attend the 2013 LA Film Festival as this year’s festival has a very solid line up with several specific films I’ve been dying to see. Upon analyzing the lineup, it seems most of the big...
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Giveaway: The Purge Exclusive T-Shirt
News | Dustin Jansick | June 5, 2013Way Too Indie will be giving away an exclusive The Purge T-Shirt to one lucky reader courtesy of Universal Pictures. The Purge stars Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey as a family whose home is invaded during a period called...
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Watch: Short Term 12 trailer
Trailer | Blake Ginithan | June 3, 2013Destin Cretton, writer/director of I Am Not a Hipster, is back with his next film, Short Term 12. The film stars Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) as Grace; a girl in her 20’s who works at a...
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Stoker on Blu-ray & DVD June 18th
News | Dustin Jansick | June 3, 2013Ever since Park Chan-wook’s breakthrough hit Oldboy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, he has exploded onto everyone’s radar as a director to follow. His latest film, Stoker, is the director’s first film in English and stars...
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Watch: Two clips from Blue Is The Warmest Color
Trailer | Dustin Jansick | May 29, 2013Hot off the heels of its huge Palme d’Or win at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, two clips from Blue Is The Warmest Color have emerged. This three-hour lesbian romance story is an adaptation of a graphic novel by...
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Winners
Awards | Dustin Jansick | May 27, 2013Being that Steven Spielberg was the president of the Jury for the 66th Cannes Film Festival everyone who I talked to seemed to think that the Palme d’Or would be given to an American film, with Inside Llewyn Davis...
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Cannes Day #9: Nothing Bad Can Happen
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 27, 2013Cannes rules to live by or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cannes Film Festival Learn to live and thrive on coffee; but ask for it American style unless you take actually handle the strong bitterness...
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Cannes Day #8: Nebraska & Only Lovers Left Alive
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 24, 2013Nebraska There is not a whole lot that goes on in Nebraska, similar to the small towns that are featured in it, but this is a road trip/family bonding film that is extremely entertaining. Nebraska is not perfect, but...
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Cannes Day #7: Only God Forgives & Magic Magic
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 23, 2013Time behaves very strangely here in Cannes. Days feel like they are short changed the 24 hours that they are supposed to contain. Thus, there does not seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything that...
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Cannes Day #6: All Is Lost & The Great Beauty
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 22, 2013This morning’s press screening of J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost marks my second and final screening in the famous Grand Théâtre Lumière. The theater features one of the world’s best projection screens and produces without a doubt the best...
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Cannes Day #5: Sarah Prefers To Run, The Bastards, We Are What We Are
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 21, 2013Making difficult decisions simply goes hand-in-hand with film festivals, and Cannes is certainly no exception. Deciding upon which film to see when inevitably two play at the same time is just the start. Because there are approximately 4,500 press...
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Cannes Day #4: Borgman and As I Lay Dying
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 20, 2013Thus far I have been very fortunate to get into each screening that I have stepped in line for, even though not every film I stood in line for was worth the effort. This is mostly surprising considering the...
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Cannes Day #3: Like Father Like Son & Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 19, 2013My third day at the Cannes Film Festival brought both my favorite and least favorite films of the festival so far. After hearing some positive buzz around the Japanese film, Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son), I...
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Cannes Day #2: Jimmy P. & The Dance of Reality
Film Festival | Dustin Jansick | May 18, 2013This morning I made a rookie mistake by leaving my umbrella at the hotel and not checking the weather before I left. The weather in Cannes can turn from sun-baked beaches surrounded by palm trees to a cold downpour...