Category: Independent
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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…
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Indie Movie Review – Punch
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The great British seaside holiday started in the 18th century when the wealthy and well connected decided that “taking the waters” in spa towns such as Bath, Buxton, and Knaresborough was getting too boring and decided to move to the coast. Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, already had an inland spa and so was ideally…
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Indie Movie Review – War Blade
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in IndependentAt first glance I thought that War Blade was going to be an interesting and intriguing prospect. In some ways it was, in some ways it wasn’t. In short, the outline is an agent has to rescue a French resistance fighter from a hidden Nazi bunker. Sounds like it could be interesting, could be exciting. …
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Indie Documentary Review – Tramps!
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It often happens that you see something and it dawns on you that Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness wasn’t so unusual after all. One of the first articles I wrote for RunPee was a documentary about a skateboard park and the people who were still using it forty years after it was built.…
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Indie Movie Review – Wickedly Evil
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Well, sometimes things turn out to be totally different to what you expected! When I was sent the info for Wickedly Evil it was described as a “comedy horror caper”. When the opening credits start any letters that can have them (W,M,V, etc.) have the pointy bits extended to look like canine teeth. So, when…
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Indie Movie Review – Werewolf Santa
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“It never rains but it pours” as the old saying goes. It’s still not Hallowe’en and here I am on my second Christmas film! However, there is nothing, other than the season, that connects Christmas At The Holly Day Inn and Werewolf Santa. One is a heavily seasonal rom-com with a few famous faces, a…
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Indie Movie Review – Christmas At The Holly Day Inn
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Ah, the way that the film industry plays with the calendar! We haven’t had Hallowe’en yet and the Christmas films have started! Fortunately, I’m more of a Santa guy than a spooky guy. So, flick on the Gemütlichkeit switch and let’s see what we have to start with. It turns out that we have Christmas…
