It’s a common refrain these days for people to claim “TV’s so much better than film”. Being a die hard film fanatic I would have to disagree. And in this article I’d like to champion 10 indie screenwriters and directors who prove that film in the 21st century is not […]
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Indie Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has always made films that are, to me, akin to punk rock: simple yet extremely effective and powerful. Especially his early works such as the 1984 absurdist comedy Stranger Than Paradise which I revisited recently. He is continuously able to take a minimalist approach to cinema […]
Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a mentally handicapped man who has been newly released from an Arkansas mental hospital after several decades. He was sent there as a youth because he murdered a boy he had thought was raping his mother. The Indie Filmmaker Reflection Karl stops at a […]
What if you made a post-apocalyptic movie with some really interesting ideas, convincing character actors and the potential to create your own story ecosystem? Deadland is that movie. I stumbled across it basically by accident, and since I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic cinema, I needed to watch it. Turns […]