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This Indie Spotlight is all about the web series, which ya’ll know I love. We’ve got a comedic farmer’s market, an epic fantasy series with a geektastic trailer, and the second season of a crazy family and their “matriarch.” I like the concept of this one and really hope it delivers on its promise. Locally [...]
We recently featured the trailer for an upcoming independent short film called Trust by filmmakers Sam Milletti and Michael Sweeney, both of the U.K. Since we’re starting a new series featuring the behind-the-scenes magic of indies, we thought we’d get some info from Sam to kick things off. He also graciously shared with us the exclusive [...]
Lucky McKee’s The Woman caused a big stir last January when it premiered at Sundance and a viewer was caught on video admonishing the Sundance crew for showing it. Apparently it is goes pretty far. From the trailer, that looks confirmed. The film is about a family who finds a feral woman in the woods [...]
Trust is a British indie short from filmmakers Michael Sweeney and Sam Milletti. It’s a drama which explores familial suffering, secrets, and abuse. Trust stars Christopher Thorpe, Kirsty Nadine, Caroline Jenks, and Russell Barnett and looks to be a pretty heavy-hitting topical piece. We look forward to seeing what these guys have created. Check out the first official teaser [...]
Richard Ayoade is best known for playing Maurice Moss alongside Chris O’Dowd and Katherine Parkinson in the British television show The IT Crowd. But currently he is promoting the film Submarine, a coming-of-age drama based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film is set in Wales where Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) believes [...]
A new indie site launches Wednesday which aims to stream independent film in Netflix-style for $10 a month. Fandor allows you to browse, sample, clip and stream its library of 2500 films and shorts on its website or Facebook. Here is an excerpt from the site: Fandor is an online service for indie film fans. [...]
Max Winkler‘s directorial debut, Ceremony, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and surrounds the wedding of a thirty-something woman being crashed by her younger ex who wants her back. Ceremony stars Uma Thurman, Michael Angarano and Lee Pace. Winkler is a USC film school graduate and son of television actor Henry Winkler. He is probably best known as the [...]
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is ending a three-year stint living and working alone in a station on the moon. He pines for his family and for his release back to Earth in a mere two weeks. His only companion is GERTY, an artificial intelligence robot with a small screen displaying the robots “emotions”, voiced by [...]
Mary and Max stars Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the central figures in this Australian clamation gem about two lonely souls finding solace in their long-distance letters and resulting life-long friendship. Mary Daisy Dinkle and Max Horowitz are from different worlds and different generations and yet follow similar, rocky paths to happiness or [...]
Alyssa Milano stars as Jesse Young in this charming rom-com featuring a woman in search of her perfect man and finding the road rocky along the way. The plot follows her two relationships and eventual “will she, won’t she” conflict. Sounds pretty typical of this genre, but Utah filmmaker Daryn Tufts adds a neat twist. [...]
