Indie Film Archive

  • [Old Movies / Young Eyes] Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

    Posted on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Writer/Director: Jim Jarmusch / Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Richard Edson Every once in a while, er – well, more often than care to admit, I open up my Netflix DVD mailer and find a movie that I don’t even recall having put into my queue. Such was...

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  • [Review] Hanna (2011)

    Posted on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
    To repeat Miranda's famous line, "Oh brave new world, that has such people in it." In Hanna, direction Joe Wright is able to create a world that is one part Grimm fairy tale and one part spy thriller and throw his heroine into it, delivering her own version of "brave new world".

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  • [Exclusive Interview] Saoirse Ronan Talks Hanna (Part 2)

    Posted on March 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Part two! Part two, part two, part two! Read part one here. Before leaping back into the conversation, I did want to mention some little bits that Saoirse just offered up in the course of the conversation. She really is a dear and a wonderful...

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  • [Exclusive Interview] Saoirse Ronan Talks Hanna (part 1)

    Posted on March 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
    You may know her as the girl from Atonement, or the girl from The Lovely Bones. Two roles which played up her innocence, with disastrous results

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  • [Review] Super (2011)

    Posted on March 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Anyone who's a fan of the Superhero genre should see this movie. Just, well, you might not like what shows up in the mirror.

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  • [Review] Win Win (2011)

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | No Comments
    In the end, that's this movie's soul. It's about a modern democratic world, where no one really knows what they're supposed to do to survive. Everyone sort of just does whatever the fuck it takes, and hopes to come up still breathing.

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  • [Review] Jane Eyre (2011)

    Posted on March 6, 2011 | No Comments
    The story suffers little from the translation from a full length novel to a two hour movie. By giving the story a non-linear pattern, she breaks up the traditional and thrusts Jane’s story into a method better employed for the screen.

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