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Tag: Independent Film

Men Go To Battle (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Francis (David Maloney) and Henry Mellon (Tim Morton) are brothers who own a farm in rural Kentucky, during the...

Expressway to Your Skull (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I don’t normally do request reviews for new filmmakers, chiefly because I cringe at the possibility of having to...

Blue Valentine (2010) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

An absorbing, affecting, mostly successful portrait of two young people meeting in the flush of youthful longing and then...

Night Tide (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

When Dennis Hopper died, I found myself at a loss for words. Hopper’s erratic brilliance had been a part...

The Tingler (1959) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Possibly William Castle’s most famous and well-regarded film, at least from amongst the fruits of the heyday of his...

Carnival of Souls (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Herk Harvey’s solitary but celebrated midnight matinee masterpiece is an indelibly creepy no-budget work that could be called the...

Sunshine Cleaning (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Indie filmmaking has thrown up its own distinct genres since the early ‘90s, and Sunshine Cleaning is a nearly...

Factotum (2005) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The mythology of Charles Bukowski gets another go-round in this fitfully funny and acerbic, but shapeless and style-free, cut-rate...

Redacted (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Brian De Palma returns to his roots whilst simultaneously constructing one of the most angry, and far from subtle,...

The Combination (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

David Field, one of Aussie cinema’s relatively unsung bastions as an actor, makes his directing debut with a study...

Frozen River (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.That Melissa Leo rocks is a given. Otherwise, underneath its indie-school charm and digi-cam realism, Frozen River is an...

Red Road (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

. .Surveillance operator Jackie (Kate Dickie) watches the world through the network of cameras that pepper the modern British...