Category: Independent
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Indie Movie Review – Oops! You’re A Vampire
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What’s the hardest part about making a vampire film? Probably trying to do something different with the story! Let’s face it, Bram Stoker’s book, Dracula, came out in 1897 and it was a whole four years before an alternative version came out. An Icelandic translation wasn’t so much a translation as a variation on a…
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Indie Movie Review – Roadkill
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When an invitation to view a pre-release screener drops into my mailbox I take a look at the accompanying material so I can get an idea of what I’m in for. This one said that Roadkill “takes us on a wild journey along the dark, dangerous, and seemingly never-ending roads of the Australian outback”. This…
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Indie Movie Review – Boon
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I was sent Boon to review so I watched it. Afterwards I had a look at the IMDb page. While on there I had a quick look at the reviews that had been posted and saw that there were quite a few in the one or two star range with comments that couldn’t be much…
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Indie Movie Review – A Small Fortune
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Some films are head scratchers. What’s going on? Who are they? Why are they doing that? Usually getting the answers is what is what keeps you gripped until the answers are forthcoming. Sometimes you have questions because you just aren’t sure what’s going on. During A Small Fortune there was a bit of the latter…
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Indie Movie Review – The Adventures Of Jurassic Pet 2: The Lost Secret
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The joy, for me, of independent films is seeing how they make up for the lack of budget. I mean, being serious for a minute, the usual budget for the making of the whole indie films that I see wouldn’t cover the cost of the chap who brews the stagehands’ tea on a Marvel film.…
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Indie Movie Review – Adalynn
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I’m not sure how widespread the concept of The Curate’s Egg is but, just in case, it is something described as partly bad and partly good. In its original usage, it referred to something that is obviously and entirely bad, but is described out of politeness as nonetheless having good features that redeem it. Adalynn most…
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Indie Documentary Review – Back To The Drive-In
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The only experience of drive-in cinemas that I’ve ever has been seeing them on American films and TV shows and one time talking to Jill about when she took her niece to see Palm Springs at one. To be honest, drive-ins were in the same category as homecoming, downtown, and yellow buses and taxis…things which…
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Indie Movie Review – Blood Covered Chocolate
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When you get an invitation to watch a film called Blood Covered Chocolate you do wonder what it might be about. First thought was a health and safety documentary about unsafe practices on the Cadbury production line. That proved to be wildly off target…quelle surprise! So what do we have then? Well, we start off…
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Indie Movie Review – This Land
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You know how a good film keeps you guessing…yes? They start you down one track and then, all of a sudden, you realise you are on a totally different one. Well, This Land sends you down a whole variety of paths! Thriller, drama, political satire, odd couple comedy, teen romance, and horror. You’re not sure…
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Indie Movie Review – Cram
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Terry Pratchett came up with the concept of L-space. He said that the written word had powerful, magical properties and that in large quantities all books warp space and time around them. You’ve heard the saying “knowledge is power”. Well, books are collections of knowledge therefore books are power. And where do you get a…
