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Good Time

Josh and Benny Safdie might be the talk of the film world right now with Uncut Gems but 2017’s Good Time remains one of the decade’s finest films. After a bank heist goes horribly wrong, Con […]

Tangerine

With the many technological advances that have graced our phones during the last decade, it was only a matter of time when someone would use them for cinematic purposes. Give a person a camera […]

120 Beats Per Minute 

Robin Campillo’s outstanding 120 Beats Per Minute is a film that stays with you long after the credits have finished rolling. A thudding, loud, fist-clenching, fist-pumping, go […]

Lana Del Rey has always had a sort of other-worldly ability to capture a specific moment in time, and then write an album about it. But whilst previous releases have relied on nostalgia for the Hollywood glam of […]

Moonrise Kingdom

If you’re not familiar with the work of Wes Anderson, you’re truly missing out. Every shot he takes looks like a perfectly painted picture and each story both thrilling and hea […]

Florida (2018)

Lauren Groff’s second collection of short stories, Florida, plunges us into a hot and humid world, where swamp creatures slither over the thresholds of human existence, and t […]

Raw

Upon release, Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) set itself apart as an unapologetic and uncompromising watch, as tales of cinema-goers walking out during disturbing scenes clouded it in controversy. The g […]

Without Fear is the debut album by Irish singer-songwriter, Dermot Kennedy, which was released in October of this year. The album was met with notable success; success which is very much deserved.

The opening […]

In a short documentary that screened prior to the 20th-anniversary re-release of Eyes Wide Shut, Warner Bros. VP Julian Senior reveals how Stanley Kubrick was “fascinated by holidays.” The director, who not […]

Cinema has been a lot this year. We’ve seen Robert Pattinson masturbating furiously in a stinky sea enclave, people burnt alive at a Swedish summer retreat, sad space travel, an imaginary Hitler, d […]

Hearing the news that one of your all-time favourite artists is bringing another album out induces both feelings of euphoria and dread in equal measure. With three excellent albums in their repertoire already, […]

Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In our 15th and final feature, James Nash explores why Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is his show of the year, the decade, and the century.
What more could po […]

“Drank a lot of coffee today!”, “I love movies!” and “I just lay down and cried!”: just a smattering of the lyrics that you’ll find in this album that I relate to with my body and soul.

Titanic Rising is sha […]

Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! In today’s feature, Holly Patrick takes a look at an arguably underrated sit-com, Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl…
Good American sitcoms were hard to come by in th […]

Welcome to The Indiependent’s Top TV of the Decade! TV Editor James Nash dives into the hit BBC One crime-drama, Happy Valley…

Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley is not just bleak – it’s violently bleak. B […]

From the opening shot of the far-too-drunk Carey Mulligan alone in a club to the neon lights and orchestral version of “Toxic” playing in the background, Promising Young Woman  declares itself immediately as an […]

Thrillhouse released their debut song ‘One of These Days’ earlier this month. It has got exposure from John Kennedy on Radio X and listening to it, you can see why they’re tipped for big […]

Fake Swans have gained a reputation for writing dark, moody rock songs. They’ve been played on BBC 6 Music and BBC Introducing Lincolnshire, as well as gigging all around London.

The band swapped their […]

Pretoria are influenced by the likes of Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Oasis. Vocalist/bassist Rob Gullet and guitarist Josh Bilisko bonded over a love of Nirvana. Once drummer Ben Dewitt was drafted in, the band […]