Just as the excitement / certain disappointment of the summer blockbuster season sneaks past us (I’m boycotting Transformers 2 in a direct snub of Michael Bay –if you’re reading, Michael, eat it!) it’s time for everyone to settle down and take a rejuvenating slice of indie pie with a side-helping of quirky. Speaking of indie, you can do worse than take notice of what’s being thrown down at the Sundance festival. Two films who got the thumbs up at Sundance [...]

Cult films, by their essence, tend to split folk into: “Whoa!” and “Whassatabout?” Brick changes nothing. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2005 for ‘originality of vision’, first time director and writer (or 2nd time if you count Evil Demon Golfball From Hell!!!, many won’t) Rian Johnson, through a decade of planning, scraping and saving, and eventually promoting, has whittled down Brick’s summary as: ‘A detective movie, set in a High School’. Despite this sounding like bread and [...]