After an amazing Netflix debut with the critically acclaimed Nanette, Hannah Gadsby is back with her latest stand-up special, Douglas. Right off the bat, Gadsby wonders why exactly we’re here. Having included most of it in her previous show, she is fresh out of trauma and wonders what exactly her audience is expecting from her […]Read More
Whether or not you know much about Shirley Jackson prior to watching Josephine Decker’s fiercely disorientating Shirley (I knew near-on nothing), the effects of it, with a little research on her life after viewing, are effectively the same. A woozy psychodrama with an air of moralistic seamlessness that keeps you guessing, the end result is […]Read More
2018’s BlacKkKlansman was one of the surprise hits of the year. Receiving some of the best reviews of Spike Lee’s 5-decade film career and coming over 30 years after his brilliant breakthrough Do The Right Thing. BlacKkKlansman won him his first Oscar and received a host of additional awards wins and nominations. It seemed an […]Read More
Decoding is arguably the most important step in the communication process, because in spite of the very human proclivity to never shut up, all the communicating we think is happening is pointless if the decoding, or listening, rather, fails. A message is conjured from thoughts by the sender who encodes what they need to say […]Read More
John Carpenter's 'Escape From L.A.' is the world we live in.Read More
Fontaines D.C. released their debut album, Dogrel, in April 2019 and received critical acclaim for their raw poetical portrayal of modern punk. This year, they released Sold For Parts, a documentary detailing the process of writing, recording and performing their highly-rated album. Produced by Collective Films, Sold For Parts documents the vulnerability, rawness and emotional […]Read More
Alice Wu gives us a heartwarming coming-of-age story of friendship, identity, and first love in Netflix’s latest teen movie. Written and directed by Alice Wu, The Half Of It follows the story of cynical brainiac Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) as she helps hopeless romantic Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) write love letters to the enigmatic Aster […]Read More
The stifling horror of suburbia characterizes this cyclical nightmare—but we’ve seen it all beforeRead More
Rarely does a film distil human society as expertly as The Platform.Read More
Aside from Oscar-winners and Hollywood blockbusters, we at The Indiependent are all about supporting promising, hard-working and talented creatives that are aiming to carve their own career path in film. In this instance, we have Amber Bardell, a London/Surrey-based artist and filmmaker, who has created a 30-minute documentary entitled Art as Catharsis. As the title […]Read More
Focusing on the rich Park family and the poor Kim family who concoct a scheme to find jobs working for the Parks, Bong Joon Ho’s latest film Parasite is as much a film about architecture and levels as it is about the lives of families in different classes. The first shot we see is of […]Read More
On the rare occasion that Adam Sandler takes on a dramatic role, the opportunity to watch him really flex his well-documented acting muscles (see Punch-Drunk Love), is always a tantalising prospect. Combined with direction from the brilliant Safdie Brothers (Good Time), Uncut Gems, a wild thriller set within New York’s famed Diamond District easily possesses all […]Read More
After bursting onto the scene with cult classics such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), writer/director Guy Ritchie has tended to stray away from British gangster films besides 2008’s RocknRolla, so his foray back into the genre is a welcome return after a few hit and miss films over the last decade. With The Gentlemen, Ritchie modernises […]Read More
I wasn’t that excited to see 1917. Firstly, it’s a war film, which as a general rule I don’t get along with: patriotism, toxic masculinity, the waste of human life. And then the cast: stalwart after stalwart of the Serious British Drama Film, pale, male and stale. I despise war narratives that depict the Western […]Read More
In and amongst all the awards season chaos, it’s worth remembering that behind all the most-hyped films of the year are important films that simply go under the radar by not quite making the headlines. Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy is a perfect example of this. Focusing on the true story of renowned Civil Rights […]Read More
