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Rust and Bone
In what will more than likely go down as the biggest disappointment of the year in film for me, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone isn’t something that I would label as bad but I certainly couldn’t call it very...
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Staff Discussion and Analysis of Holy Motors
A few writers from Way Too Indie sit down to discuss, analyze and break-down some of the elements found in Holy Motors. This is a film that can be difficult to fully interpret because there are many possible meanings...
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Argo
Ben Affleck’s Argo is a helluva thriller. One of the best Hollywood has released this year. I’ve personally disliked his other directing efforts, not because they were bad, I actually think they are very well made. Gone Baby Gone...
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Wish You Were Here
Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature film debut with his Australian indie drama Wish You Were Here, which first premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film’s non-linear narrative style is slow to reveal itself of the mysteries behind...
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Save the Date
Save the Date is a romantic comedy which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by IFC Films that features a solid upcoming cast of Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Mark Webber and Geoffrey Arend. If...
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The Bay
The found footage subgenre of horror films, now appearing to be completely exhausted, has some new life injected into it thanks to Barry Levinson. The Bay is Levinson’s first real leap into horror (if you don’t consider Sphere to...
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Way Too Indie Short Film Spotlight #1
The task of making a feature-length film is an incredibly difficult one, which is why short films are so essential to independent filmmaking. At Way Too Indie, we've decided to start up a brand new feature that will shine...
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A Royal Affair
Love, politics and religion set the stage for Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair, Denmark's official entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards. Telling the true story of Queen Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander) who, while...
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Looper
I am always skeptic when it comes to most sci-fi action films but Looper is the rare exception that proves from time to time excellent ones are made. Rian Johnson’s Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film...
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A Bittersweet Life
As I tracked back to the opening chapter of A Bittersweet Life, I paid attention to the wisdom that softened the silence in those few words. The film unfortunately walks about a narrower path in comparison to what I...
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Starlet
Twice nominated Independent Spirit Award director Sean Baker, in his fourth feature film, shows us the development of an unlikely friendship between two people with nothing in common and nearly 60 years separating them apart. Starlet is a character...
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Sister
The Swiss entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards, Sister could work almost as a companion piece to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's masterful The Kid With A Bike. This one also centers itself on...
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How to Survive a Plague
Léa Pool’s documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. points out early on that the breast cancer awareness movement originally had an activist background. One of the documentary’s talking heads points out that before women were running for a cure they were...
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Chernobyl Diaries
Chernobyl Diaries comes close to succeeding, but in the end it fails to deliver on a promising build up. When I saw the preview months ago I laughed off the idea of tourists getting the chance to tour an...
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