Tag: indie
YOUR SISTER’S SISTER
This 4th feature film directed by Lynn Shelton (‘HUMPDAY’) tells the story of Jack who hasn’t recovered from the unexpected death of his brother, and one year on is still drifting aimlessly through life broke and without a job. His best friend Iris, who also happens to have once been his brother’s girlfriend, stages an ‘Intervention’ and insists…
SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
And watching this movie certainly didn’t make it one of the better days. It’s a mash of three separate stores about a group of four struggling Portlanders whose lives are going nowhere, just like this film. These are disparate characters out of step with the rest of the world, but writer/ director Matt McCormick ensures…
CRAZY EYES
There is the usual legal disclaimer at the beginning of this movie but with the tag line ‘in reality, every bit of this happened just like you are about to see it’. It’s difficult to keep that in mind when for the next 90 minutes you are exposed to the meaningless life of a wealthy…
THE GREEN
The Green that the title refers to is a small Connecticut affluent seaside town where partners Michael and Daniel have escaped too from New York for a different pace of life. Wannabe novelist Michael is a high school Drama teacher, and Daniel has started his own restaurant and they are laying down roots refurbishing an…
KILL LIST
I was persuaded to go out of my cinematic comfort zone to go see a new indie horror movie: a genre that I really loathe. This British one, the second feature directed by Ben Wheatley from a script he co-wrote with his wife Amy Jump had garnered rave reviews that included ‘The most original, unsettling…
