Sam Raimi and Collaboration in Independent Film
Sam Raimi over his career has gone from independent horror creative to studio filmmaker. But as the director has bounced…
Sam Raimi over his career has gone from independent horror creative to studio filmmaker. But as the director has bounced…
“O Captain! My Captain.” The iconic Walt Whitman quote frequently repeated throughout Peter Weir’s boyhood classic, “Dead Poets Society” (1989),…
The fearsome Godzilla continues to strike terror 69 years after its debut. The original film helped launch a genre of…
In middle school, I walked out of a film at the 2011 Sundance festival. My stepmother and I went to see On the Ice (2011), a film by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean that focuses on teenagers living in Barrow, Alaska (later renamed Utqiagvik in 2016). She invited me along because I lived in Alaska for most of the year, admittedly a bit further south than where the story takes place. Both of us entered the festival eager to see if On the Ice represented life in the “last frontier.” However, after about thirty minutes, the movie took a dark and violent turn. Read More >>
At a first glance, the “Clean” trailer was everything you could want from an independent action film. Adrien Brody stars…
Lunar New Year is a traditional Spring festival in China, and also a prime time for movie-watching. People often spend…
Where does David Robert Mitchell’s 2019 film fit in the age of Marvel’s expanding multiverse?
Morgan Holly analyzes how “the Twilight Saga” grew from a small budget to launching the over $3.3 billion worldwide grossing vampire franchise.
Lauren Bjella analyzes the “Halloween” franchise and its impact starting as an independent film, with the 40th anniversary of “Halloween II” (1981).