Indie Spotlight

It turns out that Second Skin, one of my favorite films of the year thus far, will be playing in my city, Columbus, Ohio this weekend as part of the Origins Game Fair.

Writer and Director Ryan Gielen calls his film The Graduates, “a love letter to Ocean City,” but it could just as easily be a love letter to that month in everyone’s life when they don’t know whether they’re still in high school or already in college.

With the exception of The Wackness, I have allowed quite a few of my Sundance ‘08 favorites to dangle in oblivion, without much recognition beyond the positive reviews that I wrote in January. The Great Buck Howard will not be one of them.

Recently, Neil Miller and I had a chance to interview director David Gordon Green while he was in town promoting his latest film Snow Angels. Soon, the conversation turned to the entropy of a Neil Miller discussion of film…. Michael Bay.

Before Juno hit big time, Ellen Page was working on a very edgy Canadian indie called ‘The Tracey Fragments’. Take a look…

Director Jeff Nichols’ first film shows quite a lot of promise…