Sentences with phrase «budget indie»

The film looks amazing for a low budget indie.

It suffers from the particular approach to low - budget indie filmmaking taken here.

That its visuals are its outstanding feature is even more noteworthy when it is known to have been made as a low budget indie.

In fact, it looks like a small budget indie film starring a couple of bigger names in romantic comedies, and it plays like a typical Hallmark Entertainment production made for television.

It might have been all very charming if it was some low budget indie title, but this is a full price release published by Nintendo — and made by a developer that refuses to learn anything despite getting on for two decades of experience.

Over the nineties and into the 2000s, Smith evinced a predilection for slightly deeper and more intelligent fare, but kept a somewhat low onscreen profile for several years, usually (though not always) with bit parts in lower budget indie dramas.

He's made small budget indie films and some of the biggest productions ever made, but...

Based in Berlin, the studio will focus on smaller budget indie games.

Former Hal Hartley actress Adrienne Shelly directs her second feature, a low budget indie about a blind date gone bad.

Shot entirely in black and white, «Much Ado» looks about as close to a low budget indie as you're bound to find, but Whedon and Shakespeare are such a great fit (both celebrated for their sharp and witty dialogue) that it's a wonder the latter didn't attempt an adaptation of the Bard's classic any sooner.

There are plenty of low - budget indie movies available, but higher - quality, mid-budget, more commercial fare aimed at general audiences is hard to come by.

One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a small - budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Comparisons to Eminem's 8 Mile and Craig Brewer's Hustle and Flow wouldn't be too far - fetched, but Patti Cake $ is even more awe - inspiring when you take into account that it's a low - budget indie from a first - time filmmaker working with a relatively unknown cast whose biggest name is Cathy Moriarty.

Bright was then better known as the writer of «Gun Crazy,» a low - budget indie starring Drew Barrymore and James LeGros.

If this low - budget indie directed by Michael Showalter, who shares writing credit with Laura Terruso, is somewhat shakier in its plotting than Field is with her choices onscreen, it matters little considering that basically she is the movie.

It is both churlish and mean to berate or kick down a very humble, low - budget indie with big ideas, just because the filmmaker ultimately fails to pull off those big ideas in a satisfactory way.

At last year's Sundance Film Festival, this small - budget indie garnered rave reviews and the award for the best science - themed movie.

Uniquely, in addition to appearing in low - medium budgeted indie films, she maintained a steady diet of roles in A-list Hollywood productions, including While You Were Sleeping (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Orange County (2002), and Freddy vs. Jason (2003).

A remake came out a few years ago, and, while that one had it's moments, it didn't have the same charm or low - budget indie brilliance of this one.

He hit the scene with his no - budget indie Slacker in 1991.

The low - budget indie picture reprised, in many ways, characters Stanton had inhabited, as he plays a prickly loner in a small desert town.

Corman, of course, is a legend in the business, known for helping to shepherd the careers of the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and others, all of whom got their starts working on Corman's low - budget indie productions.

Joe Begos» Almost Human is the latest in the long lineage of forgettable low - budget indie fare, a hilariously slight blend of sci - fi and horror that appears drained of ideas a third of the way through (never mind the already stretched 80 minute runtime).

His previous work, the low - budget indie breakout «Tangerine,» explored the world of transgender women in Los Angeles, while his earlier «Starlet» was set on the fringes of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley.

The low - budget indie documentary stylings and uncompromising tone come through in selective focus, grain, unsteady handheld photography, and assorted artistic flourishes, all of which are easy to appreciate (or at least tolerate) in the disc's winning presentation.

Shot entirely in black and white, this endearing, low budget indie offers as compelling a combination of character development, credible dialogue and surprising plot twists as you might hope to encounter.

Can lightning strike two years in a row for scrappy, low - budget indie debuts set in largely African - American communities that are seldom seen on the big screen?

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

We know him as the director behind indie nuggets such as L.I.E., hotel room splendor of 12 and Holding and more recently, Roadie, so after a mostly low - budget indie filmography Michael Cuesta cross over into bigger budget big leagues is due to a successful stint on Homeland.

Made with peanuts and shoelaces, Jon Cvack has created a rare film in Road To The Well: A low - budget indie where you would be hard pressed to realise the low funding if you didn't know beforehand.

This low - budget indie more effectively portrays this culture (just how quickly you can make money — and how destructive it can be when you lose it) than both Mark Wahlberg's recent remake of «The Gambler» and Will Smith's con / crime caper «Focus» from earlier this year.

But this release, a modestly budgeted indie (Paramount acquired it after it was shot) feels slightly different: Streep, at 67, is no longer an outlier defying all conventional wisdom about the box - office viability of an actress north of 50; she's part of a trend.

Coming up through the «mumblecore» film movement as a director and screenwriter, Andrew Bujalski made the leap to the higher - budgeted indie scene with Results.

However, the strong micro budget indie work doesn't immediately translate to Oscar prospects.

By contrast, women have started to seize prominence recently in the world of independent filmmaking (particularly in the low - budget indie sector) and in the horror genre

Spirit Camp Unrated but contains sexuality / nudity, graphic violence, and language Available on DVD Local filmmaker Kerry Beyer writes, directs, and stars in this low - budget indie horror flick filmed in Houston and just outside Cleveland, TX.

Drew me in with tons of AAA console gamers in the first year or two, now we get nothing but low budget indie Vita games for months on end.

How have they endured the age of brown multiplayer shooters and smaller - budget indie platformers?

Since 39 Days to Mars is a small budget indie title, it shouldn't surprise you that it does not feature Triple - A caliber graphics.

The low - budget indie drama Starlet, beautifully shot by Radium Cheung, sensitively directed and edited by Sean Baker (the documentaries Prince of Broadway and Take Out), and performed with sparkling confusion by Dree Hemingway and genuine warmth by Besedka Johnson, follows...

Coup de Cinema is an indie low budget film about low budget indie filmmaking.

And there has been a nontraditional Oscar campaign for Franco spearheaded by A24, distributor of the low - budget indie film directed by Harmony Korine.

Pipe Dream is one of these movies, and not only is it a romantic comedy, but it is a low budget indie movie, and it wears both names proudly.

On the other hand, you probably won't miss much if you compress your copy of What We Do In the Shadows, because it's a comparatively low - budget indie comedy movie that doesn't have a ton of effects.

It's not impossible to make a scary, low - budget Indie Game — look at games like Slender, or SCP: Containment Breach — but it does need a certain touch, and without that touch all you've got is an action game with a thin aura of «horror» lumped on top of it.

A - Song One Rated PG - 13 for a scene of sexuality, and brief language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Anne Hathaway stars in this low - budget indie about a young woman who comes home to help out with her brother, who is in a coma after an accident, only to fall in love with the musician he was obsessed with before the coma.

Shot entirely in black and white, the film looks about as close to a low budget indie as you're bound to find, but Whedon and Shakespeare are such a great fit (both celebrated for their sharp and witty dialogue) that it's a wonder the latter didn't attempt an adaptation of the Bard's classic any sooner.

Whether you're making a low budget indie film, or the next Avengers movie, it's standard practice to hire all your camera and lighting equipment for the duration of the shoot.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.