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Tue, Jan 17, 2006
My Big Fat Independent Movie
|The Movie
The explosion of independent film that dominated the arthouses of the Nineties has long since subsided, as previously marginalized films are taking center stage; a movie like Brokeback Mountain or Capote would've been relegated to small, coastal runs a scant few years ago. Now, they're contending for Oscar gold what a difference a few years makes. While indie films are more prevalent now, you'd still practically need a scorecard to keep up with all of the lightning fast references in My Big Fat Independent Movie riffing on everything from Pulp Fiction to Memento, director/editor Philip Zlotorynski, working from a screenplay by Film Threat's Chris Gore (who also served as a producer) and Adam Schwartz, piles on the satire, rarely pausing for a breath.
The movie's Achilles heel, however, isn't that it's not occasionally funny (it... Read the entire review
My Big Fat Independent Movie
