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First Clip: Whiplash “Rushing or Dragging”
J.K. Simmons hurls chairs and slaps his drummer as abusive jazz instructor Terence Fletcher in the first clip from Sony Pictures Classics’ Whiplash. Winner of the Audience Award and Grady Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Whiplash...
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Cannes 2014: Leviathan
The corruption pulsating under Leviathan’s surface is so dense, you’d need an especially sharp scalpel to puncture it. Andrey Zvyagintsev manages to do just that with one of the festival’s greatest films. Though it screened in the twilight days...
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Inside Out Film Festival: The Dog, Tom at the Farm, Kidnapped for Christ, & More
Before World Pride inevitably takes over all of Toronto at the end of June, the 24th Annual Toronto LGBT Film Festival is currently happening from May 22 to June 1. The festival is a great showcase of films dealing...
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Trailer: Happy Christmas
Joe Swanberg has quietly become a very prolific filmmaker of increasing prominence. After years of churning out unscripted, low-budget naturalistic movies, last year’s slightly higher budgeted Drinking Buddies (with notable stars like Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, and the returning...
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Mommy (Cannes Review)
When discussing a new Xavier Dolan, it’s his age and not his movie that takes center stage. After all, he’s only 25-years-old He started his film making career at the same time most...
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The Dance of Reality
It’s hard to believe Alejandro Jodorowsky hasn’t released a film in almost 25 years. The cult director, whose surreal hit El Topo made him the father of midnight movies, is only increasing in popularity over the years. Now, with...
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Cannes 2014: P’Tit Quinquin
I’ve yet to get a full grasp of Bruno Dumont’s style, so if you’re a hardened Dumont fan take the following thoughts with a grain of salt. They come from someone whose introduction to the notoriously dramatic director was...
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Whiplash (Cannes Review)
Like the two previous Sundance hits, Whiplash goes through familiar emotional motions which prevent it from being the kind of sensation the Sundance buzz might make you think it is. But, there are two important ways it distances itself...
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Doug Block Explains What It’s Like To Shoot ‘112 Weddings’
Doug Block isn’t afraid to be open with his audiences. In 2005, Block made 51 Birch Street, a documentary about his parents’ complicated marriage. Years later he followed up with The Kids Grow Up, a documentary about his daughter...
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Lost River (Cannes Review)
Ryan Gosling knew this was going to happen. His directorial debut screened in the Un Certain Regarde category of Cannes and, naturally, packed the house as if it was the most highly buzzed Palme D’Or contender of the year. Two...
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Trailer: The Search
Michel Hazanavicius burst into Hollywood with The Artist, which won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The trailer for his highly anticipated follow-up, The Search, has hit today, and you can conveniently watch it below. From the looks...
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Trailer: The Toy Soldiers
Way Too Indie has been very excited for the release of Erik Peter Carlson’s The Toy Soldiers (our review) since pre-production a year ago and we are very pleased to hear of it getting its US Premiere next month...
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Trailer and New Poster For Sundance Comedy ‘Land Ho!’
Four years ago indie filmmaker Aaron Katz gave us a delightful treat with his film Cold Weather, however, the director has been absent ever since. Katz finally re-surfaced in Park City where his latest film Land Ho! premiered during...
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Foxcatcher (Cannes Review)
Bennett Miller’s follow up to Moneyball, the Brad Pitt-starring baseball-but-not-really-about-baseball movie, is Foxcatcher, the Channing Tatum-starring wrestling-but-not-really-about-wrestling movie. It’s undoubtedly one of the marquee films competing for the Palme D’Or; featuring an intriguing cast with Tatum in the lead,...
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