One of the joys of independent film is the sense of risk. Studio films have always, to a degree, played it safe. These days they’re even more risk averse, due to the flood of executives from the finance and tech industries. The majority of those people have very little interest in making art or pushing […]

At the end of the day, all movies are the same, a collection of images and sounds edited together to elicit an emotional response. But there’s a world’s worth of difference between Top Gun and The Elephant Man, between Predator and Salaam Bombay, between Thor and Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. There’s cinema, […]