Category: Independent
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Independent Film Review – Bobcat Moretti
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I think that it is fairly well known that films aren’t usually shot in the order that they unroll onscreen. They try and film as much as they can with the minimum of disruption. If a character has to appear in a particular costume or make up for a few different scenes then it is…
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Independent Film Review – Til Death Do Us Part
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I know I’m getting on a bit and am quite prepared to accept some of the blame for not being able to settle into Til Death Do Us Part as quickly as I may have hoped. To start with there was, obviously, the beginning. This consisted of a drone shot of a church steeple and…
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Independent Film Review – La Cha Cha
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There are some films that you see the initial details and think that you are going to be in for a treat. Interesting story, compelling cast, the previous work of the crew who are behind the camera. It doesn’t need to be all of those factors. A single name can draw the crowds in. Tom…
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Independent Film Review – Bolan’s Shoes
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I find that films make more of a connection when there is something to connect them to you. I know that sounds laughably trite and obvious but bear with me. If you see a film and it is set in a place that you know very well you will probably feel close to it. It…
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Independent Film Review – Frankenstein: Legacy
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I’m sure there must be a term for a story that is an extension of an earlier story. Extended narrative perhaps? Whatever…I’m sure someone could tell me in the comments. Anyway, Frankenstein: Legacy is set in a shared universe with the original Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Basically, it takes up the…
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Indie Movie Review – Fortunes Of War
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Just like the public transport system, you can wait ages for a World War Two based action film and then, before you know it, two come along at once. Last month I got to see War Blade which had a small group of soldiers aided by some resistance fighters attacking a Nazi bunker. This month…
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Indie Movie Review – Midnight Peepshow
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I’ll admit it…I’m of an age that I can remember life before the internet. My first tentative steps into the mysteries of the cyber world were back in the early eighties on something called JANET or the Joint Academic Network. I remember when I left London to start lecturing in Manchester. As I was saying…
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Independent Film Review – Dagr
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Some years ago, I was given one of those posters with a hundred must see films on it. Each film was covered with that scratch off stuff and the idea was that you scraped off the coverings of all the films you’d seen. It was delightful the way that Dagr threw in so many references…
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Indie Movie Review – The Island
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I have to admit that I was totally unaware of Michael Jai White before I saw The Island. I didn’t know that he was a multiple black belt in a variety of martial arts. I didn’t know that he had over 120 acting credits even though I had actually seen several of his appearances. I…
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Indie Movie Review – On The Line
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One of the defining features of independent films is, usually, the lack of budget. That manifests itself in any number of ways; limited number or quality of locations, actors who are just starting out and you’ve never heard of, not many in the cast, very limited or basic special effects, stock music shoehorned into the…
