Archive for Indie Films

In recent time major motion pictures have been in the shadow of itself. Movie franchises are the rule of the spring/summer docket.  Coming to a multiplex near you is a sequel, prequel, live-action remake, and a soft or hard reboot of your favorite movie series, whether you like it or not. Half a billion dollar […]

In Tom Hank’s 2000 drama Cast Away we see the allegory of a well-adjusted business man thrown into the throngs of seclusion on a desert island. By the way of washed up luggage and a lot of MacGyver style tool making he manages to break from his tropical prison. But what if all Hanks had […]