When their plan to steal $14B goes sideways, a group of highly trained mercenaries takes refuge in a family house where they encounter something quite unexpected.
Tag Archives: Indie Film
Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie (2021)
Two best friends who love horror films and want to make their own are followed by one of their brothers to make a a documentary of their process. This is the documentary that follows these two friends who have more ideas than they can count and talent enough to make them happen. Just so happens they have Down Syndrome, but they’re not going to let that stop them.
Goodbye Honey (2021)
An exhausted long distance truck driver is met with an insistent young woman as she stops for the night. The young woman tells her she has been kidnapped and that someone is after her. As they piece together the story leading to this moment, the two of them find themselves under attack.
Touch Me in the Morning (2006)
Giuseppe Andrews’ “Touch Me in the Morning” is comprised of mainly a man throwing a lot of camera errors towards the audience presenting it as arthouse chic. It watches like a pointless exercise towards the audiences’ attention span. The dialogue rambles endlessly (most times I had to turn up my volume to hear any dialogue), the narrative is almost non-existent, and there are a myriad odd and incredibly mind-numbing musical numbers that aren’t catchy or fun.
Röckët Stähr’s Death of a Rockstar (2020) [Fantaspoa Fest 2021]
It’s not too often I’m privileged enough to watch an animated rock opera, but Röckët Stähr’s one man production about world fighting for peace through rock and roll is quite the spectacle. One thing you can’t accuse it of is being unambitious, as Röckët Stähr’s does everything in the movie possible. He literally does everything as when the movie comes to a close you can see the impressive list of tasks he undertook to bring his movie to life.
Nuevo Rico (2020) [SXSW 2021]
Director Kristian Mercado Figueroa’s short musical is a brilliant and excellent look at the end of the potential creeping end of the American territory known as Puerto Rico. Though fiction, Mercado brings to light the very troubling developments that could change how Puerto Ricans connect to their homeland. In the near future, the raw land of Puerto Rico has been destroyed in favor of a futuristic dystopia now known as Nuevo Rico.
Running Time (1997): Special Edition [Blu-Ray]
It’s not often that we get crime thrillers that unfold in real time, but Josh Becker’s indie “Running Time” takes a shot and does a great job of it. “Running Time” is true to its word, a movie that unravels over the course of a little over an hour, and the run time for the narrative is apt. The movie is not too long, refusing to pad the story, buts it’s never too short to where we’re left asking questions. It runs a good pace as a tense drama that feels kind of like a prologue to “Reservoir Dogs.” Campbell is stellar and the movie almost makes it to the finish line without a hitch. Almost, but not quite.