Independent (Movie Genre)

May 24 (TheWrap.com) - Summer is the busiest time of year at the multiplexes, with the major studios throwing wannabe blockbusters at every open date and big-budget sequels gobbling up all available screens. For indie films, it's the perfect time of...

Some called it “Life of Pi” without the tiger. Others compared it to Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” But most critics liked what they saw in “All Is Lost,” an almost dialogue-free narrative feature...

NEW YORK — "Before Midnight," Richard Linklater's third film about the relationship between an American man (Ethan Hawke) and French woman (Julie Delpy), closes with what might be the series' piece de resistance: a 30-minute hotel-room argument...

Effortless and effervescent, "Frances Ha" is a small miracle of a movie, honest and funny with an aim that's true. It's both a timeless story of the joys and sorrows of youth and a dead-on portrait of how things are right now for one particular New York...

May 16 (TheWrap.com) - Garrett Hedlund is set to join his "Inside Llewyn Davis" co-star Oscar Isaac in William Monahan's original thriller "Mojave," which Atlas Independent is producing with the filmmaker's Henceforth Pictures banner. Hedlund replaces...

May 15 (TheWrap.com) - Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star alongside Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro in the indie movie "God's Pocket," which will mark the feature directorial debut of "Mad Men" star John Slattery....

One of the remarkable things about the 66 finalists announced Monday for the annual Knight Arts Challenge grants is their range, both artistically and geographically. Over the course of five years,  the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has...

Baz Luhrmann's gilded  "The Great Gatsby" may beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into film-critic disapproval. But that hasn't stopped its soundtrack artists from capitalizing on its imagery of seductive wealth and youth. Lana...

The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival kicks off Friday evening at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres at Hollywood & Highland with a double bill of John Carpenter's 1988 "They Live" and his classic 1978 horror film, "Halloween. Carpenter will appear...

May 08 (TheWrap.com) - The Los Angeles Film Festival has added screenings of Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" and Pixar's "Monsters University" to its 2013 lineup, supplementing the previously-announced lineup of indie films with a couple of likely...

Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...

May 06 (TheWrap.com) - A trio of Hollywood veterans are teaming up to reinvent 1950s B-movies from the American International Pictures library. Producer Lou Arkoff, writer-producer Jeff Katz and ICM alum Hal Sadoff have joined forces on the venture,...