Indie Movies

Netflix Reviews

• District 9
  Interesting premise and mostly well done. However, it seems that modern Hollywood films assume audiences cannot sit through five minutes of screen time without automatic weapons being fired. It makes so many movies feel like I'm watching a video game. […]
• Management
  Better than many Hollywood romantic comedies, with surprisingly nuanced performances by the stars Zahn and Aniston. The plot starts to spin a bit out of control in the second half, but it's still mostly enjoyable with some laughs. Woody Harrelson is good as a bizarre ex-punk yogurt magnate. […]
• The Girlfriend Experience
  Steven Soderbergh returns to his indie roots with this interesting and thought-provoking study of an escort. The film, like its subject (Sasha Grey), is not quite accessible, as it jumps around in time and it takes a while to figure out what's going on. The Girlfriend Experience, however, looks at the whole issue of prostitution in a way that I can […]
• The Informers
  This movie takes a one-dimensional look at the decadent Los Angeles hipster scene of the 1980s, ground that has been covered bettered by other films. The odd and unfortunate thing is that The Informers has some good qualities. The solid performances by a surprisingly good cast (Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger for starters) are mostly waste […]
• 2012: Science or Superstition
  Very thought provoking interviews about the significance of December 21,2012. It's worth noting than many of the bad reviews of this documentary are obviously from dogmatic skeptics -I wonder if some of them even watched the movie at all, and if so, why. I mean, if you are completely convinced a certain point of view is worthless, why waste your time wa […]