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Children Of Heaven
Having been greatly impressed by recent works such as A Separation and About Elly, I was curious to learn what other hidden gems I could uncover from Iranian cinema. After a little digging, I found Children of Heavenand I...
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Holy Motors
Holy Motors opens in a theater of unmoving bodies, an unseen film plays. A man wakes in a bed on a boat, uses the key he has in place of a finger and stumbles through the wall into the...
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Kwaidan
Don’t be fooled by the age, Kwaidan is one of the finest reasons to include Masaki Kobayashi in the contenders list for one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time. The movie, born in 1964 was awarded and...
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Safety Not Guaranteed thankfully takes its science fiction framework and keeps it in the background, instead putting the focus on its characters and how they grow over the film’s short running time. For the most part the movie gets...
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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
As the argument goes, it is rare to find a film that is better than the novel it is based on. This is simply because the cinematic representation can never quite hold the writers imagination or match the depth...
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2012 Chicago International Film Festival Coverage Recap
A recap of Way Too Indie coverage of the 2012 Chicago International Film Festival. A breakdown of each day at the festival.
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Watch: Room 237 trailer
It’s been over thirty years since Stanley Kubrick gave us the fantastic horror film The Shining, which still ranks up as one of my all-time favorite horror films. After all these years the film is still being studied and...
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CIFF 2012 Day 5: Empire Builder & Not Fade Away
My last day at the Chicago International Film Festival started out with Kris Swanberg who was there to introduce Empire Builder and a short Q&A afterwards. She introduced the film by saying that it is a very personal film....
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CIFF 2012 Day 4: Once Upon A Time Was I, Veronica & Beyond The Hills
I started out my forth day at the festival with Once Upon A Time Was I, Veronica which I purposely went in without knowing a whole lot about it. Part of what makes film festivals fun is to walk...
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CIFF 2012 Day 3: Flowerbuds – Alaskaland – Paradise: Love
Day 3 had both my favorite and least film from the festival thus far. Find out which one succeeded and which one fell flat. Films consisted of Flowerbuds, Alaskaland and Paradise: Love.
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CIFF 2012 Day 2: War Witch – Like Someone In Love – After Lucia
Day 2 became the day of hard films to watch but only because of their subject matters and emotional punches they threw. The three films that I saw today where War Witch, Like Someone In Love, and finally After...
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CIFF 2012 Day 1: Holy Motors
My first day at the Chicago International Film Festival one is a relatively light one considering that I will only be seeing one film. That film happens to be the one I am most excited to see here, Holy...
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2012 Chicago International Film Festival Coverage Introduction
Fall is a great time to watch films. The combination of the days beginning to get colder and the nights getting longer makes the perfect excuse for staying inside to watch films. Festival season is now in full swing...
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Watch: A Good Day to Die Hard Teaser
When the 4th sequel in the Die Hard sequel was announced I (along with millions of others) rolled my eyes. While the first three films are full of fantastic action, Live Free and Die Hard turned out to be...
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