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Interview: David Fitzgerald, Founder of the Atheist Film Festival
The Atheist Film Festival, a one-day San Francisco event now in its fifth year, is hitting the Bay Area again this Saturday, September 14th at the Roxie Theater with an all-day lineup of films designed to celebrate and explore...
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Il Futuro
Alicia Scherson’s Il Futuro (The Future) is an adaptation of a Chilean novel by Roberto Bolano about two recently orphaned siblings that must find a way to make it on their own. Their uncertain future is the backbone of...
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TIFF 2013: The Past and Manakamana
The first thing that came flooding back into my mind the moment I arrived in Toronto for TIFF was the only thing fest-goers do more than watching movies: waiting. If you want to come to TIFF be prepared to...
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Manakamana (TIFF review)
On paper, the description of Manakamana will have most people running in the opposite direction. Directors Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez put a stationary camera inside a cable car that takes passengers up and down a mountain to the...
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Trailer: The Double
Making its world premiere tomorrow at the Toronto International Film Festival is the sophomore efforts from director Richard Ayoade entitled The Double, which stars Jesse Eisenberg as a man who starts to freak out upon discovering his eerie doppelganger....
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Adore
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival under the name Two Mothers (an arguably more fitting title) has been since changed to Adore, Anne Fontaine’s film about two best friends who end up in relationships with each other’s sons. Due...
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TIFF 2013: Coverage Introduction
As summer winds down, that time of the year starts up for me again. For the 6th year in a row I’ll be heading out to Toronto for 11 days of seeing as many films as humanly possible. It’s...
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Derbez’s Low-budget Comedy Surprises, Snags #5 at Box Office
Here at Way Too Indie, we’re always rooting for the underdog, and this past weekend, one of the smallest dogs in the fight surprised everyone with a stellar performance at the box office. Instructions Not Included, Mexican television star...
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Wasteland
Rowan Athale attempts to breathe some new life into the heist genre by peppering it with dry British humor, stylized visuals, pulsing soundtrack, and characters with realistic motivations, but Wasteland overcomplicates the story with all of its gimmicky deceptions,...
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Trailer: Under the Skin
Judging from the new teaser trailer for his new film, Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer looks to be exercising some serious demons. That or he has been watching David Lynch’s Lost Highway way too much. The trailer is very,...
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Stranger by the Lake
Never leaving the rural French lakeside setting on which it opens, Alain Guiraudie’s new film Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du lac) establishes an economy from its opening frame. In spite of the abundant sunlight and wide, cinematographic expanses...
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A Teacher
A Teacher is in many ways a reversal of the story that is normally told; featuring an older female authoritative figure (a teacher) having an affair with a younger male (a student). On top of that, the adolescent is...
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10 Must See Films at TIFF 2013
With 288 features set to play over 11 days, it was a tough process to narrow down our top picks for the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF can function as a way to catch up on some of the...
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Trailer: Palo Alto
There are films that, purely based on a pitch, pique my interest. An adaptation of a James Franco novel about suburban trouble-making teens handled by a first time director is not one. The trailer for Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto...
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