Tag: Independent Films
Personal Shopper Burns Slowly but Brightly
Soon after the death of her twin brother Lewis, personal shopper Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart) travels to Paris and attempts to user her ability as a spiritual medium to communicate with him, a power that he also possessed….
Read More »Hounds of Love Shines While Tackling Tough Subject Matter
Hounds of Love takes place in 1987, following serial killer couple John and Evelyn White (Stephen Curry and Emma Booth) in Perth, Australia. While searching for their next victim, they happen upon Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings), a high…
Read More »It Comes at Night Continues Horror’s Modern Renaissance
As the world is gripped with the spread of a deadly sickness with no cure, former history teacher Paul (Joel Edgerton) establishes a remote home deep in the woods in order to secure his family, wife Sarah (Carmen…
Read More »A Quiet Passion, a Quiet Biopic
“But you have a life, I have a routine. Those of us deprived of a certain kind of love know how to starve ourselves. We deceive ourselves then deceive others. The worst kind of lie.” A Quiet Passion…
Read More »Colossal: The First Film Examining Millennial Life
Get Out, 2017’s first runaway hit, was a genre film serving as metaphors for larger social issues and with the release of Colossal, this trend has continued into the first 3rd of the year. Colossal uses a monster…
Read More »The Lobster: On Free Will and Searching for Love
The Lobster is a dark comedy/drama set in a dystopian near future where single people are assigned to stay in The Hotel where there must find a mate of similar characteristics within 45 days. If they fail, they…
Read More »Green Room Continues A24’s Streak of Greatness
“Been Steph Curry wit the shot.” – Drake A24 is a relatively new, independent studio that released its first film in 2013 and has been on a Steph Curry like hot streak for the past three years. They…
Read More »The Invitation: A Thrilling Intersection of Grief and Paranoia
The Invitation follows Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and a group of friends that haven’t seen each other since tragedy Will and his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard) two years prior. Eden invites her ex and their old friends to a…
Read More »Sing Street Sets a New Standard for the Coming of Age Film
“For our art, Cosmo. You can never do anything by half. Do you understand that?” Sing Street is a story about a high school boy in 1980s Dublin, Ireland named Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) who decides to start a…
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Beatriz at Dinner Has Something to Say. Loudly.
Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is an immigrant from a village in Mexico, that has since been destroyed, now living in Los Angeles working as an alternative medicinal healer and massage therapist. While stranded at her client Cathy’s (Connie Britton)…
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