Tag: indie
WRONG : a gem of an absurdist comedy that is so right
If you read this blog regularly then you will know what we really love are movies that are so far out there, and that my creed is actually the weirder the better. And this delightful absurdist surreal comedy called ‘WRONG’ is a perfect example. Written, directed, photographed and edited by Quentin Dupieux (who also did the…
GIMME THE LOOT
Sofia and Malcolm are a couple of teenage graffiti artists (taggers) from the Bronx who set their hearts on the twenty year somewhat impossible challenge to ‘bomb the apple’ i.e. spray paint the NY Met’s notorious giant apple that is shown every time they hit a home run. This sweet naive pair believe that when…
THE DE-FLOWERING OF EVA VAN END
When Friet an impossibly perfect German exchange student comes to stay with teenage Eva and her family in their home in rural Holland, life as they know it changes almost beyond recognition. Up till then this dysfunctional family has somehow coasted along, but that was all before Friet fed them doubt, fear, insecurity and even…
THE GO-DOC PROJECT
For three weeks in the summer last year filmmakers Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (the producer/director behind the cute ‘MARIACHI GRINGO‘) and the gay cult film ‘WERE THE WORLD MINE’) followed two guys all over New York with a camera and a script and nothing else. Tanner, a slightly nerdy recent College Grad had devised a plan…
LIBERAL ARTS
Actor Josh Radnor (‘TV’s How I Met Your Mother’) evidently really misses the good old days in the ’90’s when he was back in College. So much so he wrote himself a cute movie about going back to his old alma mater and wanting to stay : and he not only starred in it, but he directed it…
