The Trip to Spain brings back the familiar with graceful self-awareness...
While the multiplexes have their Marvel movies and its universe, the art house has the universe of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as directed...
Hail, Caesar! relentlessly sends up old Hollywood studio system — a...
If Hail, Caesar! is anything more than a series of send-ups of the Hollywood studio system of the 1950s, then I didn’t see it. The...
Clouds of Sils Maria examines the layers of celebrity identity with...
Not since Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, has a movie unpacked identities in flux as profoundly as Clouds of Sils Maria. Whereas Bergman concerned himself with...
Tangerines humanizes war enemies with low-key character development, music — a...
A subtle film about brotherhood and tearing down the idea of "the enemy," Tangerines (Mandariinid) is a beautifully shot meditation on what war means to...
Experimenter presents the legacy of 1960s behavioral experiments as engaging cinema...
With Experimenter, American indie filmmaker Michael Almereyda returns in amazing form, tearing into the conventions of the biopic. The films follows the life of Stanley Milgram with a marvelous Peter...
How Stanley Kubrick broke the rules of Classical Hollywood cinema and...
From the Internet to followers in my hometown Miami, I have long been asked to share my MA thesis that capped off my studies...
Record show finds and more music coverage to come in 2012
I try to balance this blog with an interest in both independent film and music. But lately movie reviews have certainly been favored... so...
A Ghost Story offers beautiful meditation on love after death —...
It feels like a public service obligation to first note that A Ghost Story is not a horror movie. The third film by Writer-director-editor...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl reduces friendship and death...
Since its buzzy debut back in January at Sundance, I am sure the issue has come up a billion times: Me and Earl and...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 3 – Best in Music
Here are Independent Ethos' picks for the 10 best albums we heard in 2015. They are presented in no particular order because it is...