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First Look at The Skeleton Twins Movie Poster
News | Dustin Jansick | July 15, 2014Craig Johnson is now getting some artwork for his Sundance hit The Skeleton Twins, a film that stars Saturday Night Live alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as estranged twins who reunite after reaching rock bottom. The film also...
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Benecio Del Toro Intimidates the Heck Out of Us in ‘Paradise Lost’
News | Ananda Dillon | July 15, 2014Actor turned writer-director Andrea di Stefano doesn’t yet have a U.S. release date set for his film Paradise Lost, but in the meantime we have a glimpse of Benecio Del Toro as Pablo Escobar, the infamous drug lord in the newly...
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Robin Wright Gets Immortalized in New Clip From ‘The Congress’
News | Ananda Dillon | July 15, 2014It’s hard to imagine an out of work, undesirable version of Robin Wright (congrats on that second Emmy nomination, girl), but that’s the beginning premise of Ari Folman‘s (Waltz with Bashir) new film The Congress. After gaining a reputation...
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Cinemanovels
Movie | C.J. Prince | July 15, 2014In the world of Cinemanovels, the name John Laurentian stands next to famous directors like Bergman and Antonioni. When the film opens the fictional Quebecois filmmaker is dead, and his estranged daughter Grace (Lauren Lee Smith) is handling his...
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Mood Indigo
Movie | Dustin Jansick | July 14, 2014No filmmaker could pull off adapting Boris Vian’s “unfilmable” novel better than the inventive Michel Gondry. Before the opening titles finish Gondry demonstrates his trademark whimsy and wacky production style; a chef receives ingredients through a television set, sunlight...
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Movie | Bernard Boo | July 11, 2014If you, like millions of others, plan on heading into Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this weekend ready to gobble up yet another action-heavy summer mega movie, expect to get way more than you bargained for: Dawn is a sophisticated, emotional picture that explores...
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Boyhood
Movie | Ananda Dillon | July 11, 2014With last year’s Before Midnight being clearly one of the best of 2013 (at least in our opinion), it would seem Richard Linklater, whose films can be somewhat hit or miss (Me and Orson Welles was a bit more...
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Watch: Trailer for Jean-Marc Vallée’s ‘Wild’ Starring Reese Witherspoon
News | Aaron Pinkston | July 11, 2014Hot off directing 3-time Oscar winner Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée‘s next film has released its first trailer — check it out below! Wild seems very much in the groove for Vallée as a true-life drama following a strong central character. Based...
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Forev
Movie | Pavi Ramani | July 11, 2014A lighthearted romantic comedy with few surprises, Forev is the sort of film that does little more than induce a smile. The film opens with Sophie (Noël Wells of recent SNL fame) drunkenly stumbling into her neighbor Pete’s (Matt Mider)...
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Code Black
Movie | Bernard Boo | July 11, 2014Ryan McGarry’s Code Black, an engrossing documentary about one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country, revolves around the idea that patient-doctor intimacy is a key factor in saving lives, and this intimacy is something the medical industry is quickly...
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Watch: Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Oscar Bait ‘Unbroken’
News | Ananda Dillon | July 10, 2014Angelina Jolie launches herself into the Oscar race with her latest directorial entree Unbroken. As if perfecting Disney villainess status wasn’t impressive enough, Angie’s efforts behind the camera have been wholly ambitious as she continuously tackles stories of war and inhumane situations....
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Difficult to See Doc “LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF” Finally Set for Home Distribution
News | Aaron Pinkston | July 10, 2014Thanks to Cinema Guild, you may have the chance to finally (legally) see Thom Anderson’s documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself. The film has occasionally popped up at film festivals and on YouTube, but is now up for a digital distribution...
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Guillermo del Toro to Return to Indie Filmmaking with New Project
News | Aaron Pinkston | July 10, 2014While we all eagerly (or not so eagerly) await Pacific Rim 2 and next year’s Crimson Peak, Collider reports in an interview with Guillermo del Toro that the director is set to direct an unnamed project first. Not much is known about the film,...
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Richard Linklater on How to Handle Talkers in His “Don’t Talk” PSA for Alamo Drafthouse
News | Dustin Jansick | July 10, 2014Have we ever mentioned how much we love Alamo Drafthouse here at Way Too Indie? This small theater chain from Austin, TX constantly ranks as one of the best theaters in the world. And for good reason. The theater...