Browsing: Indie Film

Interview by Paul Salfen Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in a stunning breakout turn) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite, another major discovery) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at "The Magic

Review by Bears Fonte Of all the films of I’ve seen so far at Fantastic Fest, the one that has stuck with me is the most understated: Thelma. On its surface a Norwegian coming of age story about a young woman leaving her repressive Christian home for the first time as she goes to University

Interview/Review by Bears Fonte Kasra Farahani has made a horror film about life under Trump.  Trump is not really a character in the film, but his campaign and the resentment he stirs up menaces over the TILT in much the same way the lead character looms over the sleeping homeless man in the still above. 

Review by Bears Fonte The opening fifteen minutes of REPLACE, a SciFi thriller screening as part of Fantasia, promises a film filled with plot twists, thematic depth, and sparkling cinematography.  Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) wakes up alone after a date, unable to remember how she got there the night before, and surprised that she has been

Review by Bears Fonte The buddy cop movie, a staple of US cinemas in the '80s and '90s, is alive and well in Korea, only it arrives with a little more seriousness and a lot more hand to hand combat.  Kim Sung-hoon’s CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT forces a North Korean detective Im Cheol-ryung (Hyun Bin) to team

By Bears Fonte ...not really a great, ‘come-to-Australia’ tourism type film. Camping trip in a remote part of the Australian Outback, what could go wrong, right?  When Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer) find they are not alone after coming upon an abandoned tent, the romantic getaway becomes a little more ominous.  Played out

By Bears Fonte ``...an enjoyable active viewing excursion`` Greg Zglinski’s surreal marital drama ANIMALS captures a couple at the crossroads of their relationship, a time when to people seem to be willing to consider what their life would be like with or without their spouse.  Sometimes, those considerations play out on screen as abductions, murders

Interview by Bears Fonte Filmmaking is a tough career choice.  Although honestly, slogging away on your project in the privacy of your own home until you deem it ready for public consumption is nothing compared to a comic going out every night on stage, trying new material out on (often hostile) audiences and then doing

Review and Interview by Bears Fonte Nietzsche said, “we have art in order not to die of the truth.” In M.F.A., our hero turns to her final art thesis to move on from her date rape, an incident everyone encourages her to not talk about. Played with assassin like precision by Francesca Eastwood, Noelle channels

By Lisa Marie Meija FINDING THE MADNESS WITHIN Artists find their inspirations in a variety of different ways. A lot of the time they start with “write what you know” and find themselves diving into the depths of complexity. For Jeremy Carr, the writer/director of the new film Other Madnesses, inspiration was found just outside