Your Independent Movie Guide
Elias Savada
By Elias Savada | December 2014
“Into the Woods” is one astonishing drink…
Most anyone who watches movies based on fairy tales will mention one studio as the richest source for their favorite adaptations of the works of Charles...
After dozens of festival screenings, starting with Telluride in late August, this biopic of eccentric British master code breaker Alan Turing has...
It's not often that a self-narrated film has a lasting impression, but Cassio Tolpolar's homegrown and low-key storytelling skills in his documentary...
If you've got a Halloween hankering for an unconventionally ominous horror tale—one sprinkled with ample helpings of daft comedy—this haunted house...
While I consider the phrase "reality television" an oxymoron, there's nothing wrong with a good--—make that great--—piece of fly-on-the-wall cinéma...
There's a snowstorm about to hit New York City as 40-year-old Max Nichols' debut feature begins its excursion into the hookup mentality of today's...
Another in the ever-growing list of wow-'em in 3-D IMAX medium-length films that shuffles about from one special venue to another, "Mysteries of the...
In the battle between two films made by different freshman feature directors from the same original screenplay—as dramatically bared on the Starz...
I'm usually not a person who tunes in to a reality TV show. Dancing this, amazing that. Loser, winner, I couldn't care less. It's all half-baked. Yet, in...
Fantasy YA seems to be a genre-de-choice of late. From this OA critic to those unaware of this phenomenon, that's the Young Adult...
