independent film

Paying for It

By | January 2026

NOW IN THEATERS! In her sixth feature film, Paying for It, director/co-writer Sook-Yin Lee brings to life provocative cartoonist Chester Brown’s 2011…

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NOW IN THEATERS! In her sixth feature film, Paying for It, director/co-writer Sook-Yin Lee brings to life provocative cartoonist Chester Brown's 2011...

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DANCES WITH FILMS NEW YORK 2026 REVIEW! Co-writer/director Nick von Gremp’s Good Not Great is a rambunctious dark comedy about a narcissistic...

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NEW TO XUMO AND PLUTO! Argentinian writer/director Jose Maria Cicala's The Shadow of the Cat sets a family story about secrets of a dark past in the...

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DANCES WITH FILMS NEW YORK 2026 REVIEW! Co-writer/director Chloe Lenihan and screenwriter Joseph Mancuso's Smile...The Worst is Yet to Come lands like a...

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Delayed Gratification is about exactly what the title implies. The Todd Inman-directed and penned drama follows best friends/flatmates Zara (Naya Somanya)...

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Writer-director Emilio Mauro's Another Day in America is a bitingly dark office comedy set in a post-pandemic world. Warning: the commentary will feel very...

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31 Candles opens with a flashback to an AOL chat between the protagonist, Leo (writer, director, and star Jonah Feingold), and his crush in summer camp,...

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NOW ON VOD! Writer/director Ned Crowley's supernatural western, Killing Faith, has the distinction of earning a public shout-out from Stephen King as a...

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Writer-director Bryn Martin's The Hand of Amelia Carne plays like a campfire fable drawn into motion — small, intimate, and built around a single,...

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In writer-director Walter Kim's Banana Split, a bad timing mix-up forces two strangers to share an apartment for a long weekend in New York City. The setup...

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