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Indie Film Review – Borges and I
Borges and I opens with a gimmick: John is an out of work actor who decides to start recording his everyday activities using a button camera on his jacket. The entire film is shot with this button cam, giving us a semi-POV from John’s perspective.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Conviction
The title of director Tony Goldwyn’s Conviction (2010) really works on two different fronts. The first about the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of a man who fit the mold of a brutal killer, but swears it wasn’t him. It also works as the representation of…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Landlord
The Landlord (2009) is a shoestring indie horror comedy, written and directed by Emil Hyde. It tells the story of brother and sister Tyler (Derek Dziak) and Amy (Michelle Courvais), who have the unenviable task of being the owners of an apartment building that a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Grizzly Man
For thirteen summers, Timothy Treadwell lived in the Alaskan wilderness near and amongst the wild bears of the area. He interacted with them, talked with them, even went so far as to go up to and touch them. During this time, he recorded over one…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Scenesters
The Scenesters (2009) is an inventive independent film written and directed by Todd Berger. In a way, it’s almost too inventive, to the point that it’s kind of difficult to explain what kind of movie it is. It’s part film noir, mystery, slasher film, pseudo…
READ MOREFilm Review – Shaolin vs. Evil Dead
For those of you not well-versed in traditional kung-fu movies, vampires are white-faced and hop around with their arms out. This movie explains that a monk walking in front of the vampires rings a bell to intentionally make them hop and keep their arms out.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Thankskilling
This movie starts out in the “olden times” (literally, the screen says this) with a topless pilgrim running through the woods with a carnivorous turkey chasing her. Turkey comments on her “attributes” and then kills her. The turkey was cursed/possessed when a Native American was…
READ MOREFilm Review – Buried
There are a few reasons why I was interested in Buried, the film from director Rodrigo Cortés and writer Chris Sparling that opens today. Surprisingly, the Adonis Ryan Reynolds was only number three on the list. The first reason was that I’m always intrigued when…
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