Indie
Film Review – It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Craig is 16 years old, thin and impossibly shy. He’s pretty sure nobody understands him. He’s in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. He dreams of committing suicide. At one point in the movie Craig (played by Keir Gilchrist) sits in an art class, confined…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Killer Inside Me
You may not have heard of The Killer Inside Me. Or maybe you have and don’t realize it. This is the film that caused an uproar at Sundance this year. People walked out of the theatre, and many people who wanted to walk out decided…
READ MOREFilm Review – Punching the Clown
In the opening scene of the 2009 indie comedy Punching the Clown, we’re introduced to Henry Phillips, a singer-songwriter whose work is mostly of the jokey, satirical sort. He’s doing a radio show at 3 AM, which sums up immediately the state of his career:…
READ MOREFilm Review – TiMER
What if you could find out the exact moment that you were going to meet your soul mate? Would you do it? Would you want to know? Or would that ruin the excitement of it? If you want to know the instance when you will…
READ MOREPleasant Surprise In Punching The Clown
When I’m not working on the MacGuffin Podcast, I’m the host of STIFF Nights; the screening series of Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival. One of my good friends works for Slamdance and I asked her for some suggestions of good films to screen that were…
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