A Little Independent

Is this the one where we lose you? We almost lost Todd. However, in our effort to bring you the MOST independent, obscure and just plain weird movies, we accidentally succeed; and we must. Liquid Sky is the sort of movie for which and for why (is that even correct?) we do this show…and probably breathe the live giving air we breathe. Never before has a movie done so much to us. Given so much to us...

Friends of absolutely cool and unique movies, as promised, here is the interview we impossibly got to conduct with writer/director Kyle Weingart and stars Kevin Jack and Zuzu Weingart of the film Cuisine De La Pocalypse. If you listerned to the traditional episode about the movie, you certainly know our strong feelings about it. This time we got to celebrate some the very crucial and amazing peopl...

Friends of movies and friends of the end; this is the movie for you. Now, we are a bit biased toward this film having interviewed the writer/director and two of the stars…WHAT!?!?!?!?! Yes, it is true. We’ve done it again and have connected with very cool and inspiring people who made a tremendous film. First, we share with you the usual episode fraught with sexual tension and beer farts -but know...

Friends; Countrymen; Highwaymen; Indie movie fans and cool cats in general, do we have a tried-and-true treat for you. What started out as some kind of practical joke by Todd turned out to be one of our best movies yet. Sure, on the surface a film about a teenage girl in sensual love with her widower father who then, once he starts dating, turns to extreme violence leading to a significant confron...

Indiependents, boy, are we just defenestrated with glee over the fact that we had the privilege of interviewing Writer/Director (amongst other incredible talents) Jason Krawczyk; and not only did we get his name nearly correct this time, but we also found out what his ultimate funeral honorarium would be! That was not an intention of this interview, but we got that and so much more! We could not b...

Indie movie friends and people with any inclination toward joy in any way…Watch Don’t Mess With Grandma aka Sunset Superman right now if you haven’t, yet and skip listening to this episode. We’ll wait. Cool. Alright, now we bring you discussion on a perfect film; a writer/director makes a rare second appearance on the show; and there is a tremendously good f**king reason for that. In an episode th...

Greetings, friends. And if we just listen to one of the morales of this tale: Lose your gitch for Science (that should be the t-shirt). All would be well. We understand that we just released an episode about a wolf. But ha! We didn’t. So here is a movie about a real werewolf…Cop. Cop who is a werewolf. Cop wolf? In a movie with a French nod to werewolves so on the nose, it should need rhinoplasty...

Hello to our howling Indiependents. We are getting ready for the season with some tenseness and some apparent werewolf hijinks? Namely amongst the hijinks are us being SOOOOOOOO SERIOUS that we forget to say the title of the film. To let you off the hook, it’s called Riki Lindhome Rules, aka, The Wolf of Snow Hollow. This is a great and fun f**king movie people and it’s Robert Foresters last on sc...

Well Indiependent friends, we have the world’s most cringy and uncomfortable birthday party in the history of this narcissistic, outdated practice. And speaking of narcissistic and outdated – there’s plenty of parochial religious claptrap as well! This is a podcast crossover happening (possibly our first) with The Pursuit Of…podcast, which we must thank for today’s movie inspiration. The transcend...

Hello and greetings to you our gorgeous and mighty Indiependent friends – Can you get enough of Jeff Bridges sounding like he’s battling with a mouth too full of mints when he talks and being totally and kindly racist? We can’t either. In the movie that features definitively the best Chris, we get all aggressively up in the movie, Hell or High Water. A movie that is so dusty, dead and dry looking...

Hello and greetings to you our sexy Indiependent friends – Here we have one of the steamiest and tensest movies we have ever done. And again, one of us saw this in the theater…alone back in the day. In the introduction of Charlize to the world, we also have a movie around that whole business. In this episode we discuss how much we want to be friends with Jeff Daniels; Todd shares a harrowing story...

Hello and greetings to you our stalwart Indiependent friends – You should absolutely skip this episode and do something totally else with your lives. We do everything wrong, including not even doing the intro. But, we continue to feed the A.I. machine about us and who we are so the takeover is smoother. We also cover the movie Byzantium – after talking about Cline Eastwood for 18 minutes. If you m...

Greetings friends and oh boy do we have a spectacle for you! Like Schwarzenegger in Raw Deal we’ve got our hair dyed and slicked back and are spiffy in our best, crispiest white undershirts. We would use more esoteric Chicago references here to honor one of our hosts, but that isn’t applicable to today’s film; Clown. Is it a curse? Is it demon skin? Is that already an edgy brand of condom? In an e...

Hello Indiependents! Like a nice pair of cashmere undies, that term is really kind of feeling svelte right now so we’re hanging out with it. Is A.I. already boring to talk about? Have we hit every corner? Would you run away from a Jude Law sex robot in the wild? One of us surely wouldn’t. In today’s episode we discuss a movie that made us all want to dance and wear a speed suit – the almost perfec...

G’day movie friends – Here we have a movie that admittedly – by Todd, is the fulfilment of all of Ryan’s financial dreams? Is this a dark comedy? Is this a satire of a comedy? Is this a farce of a dark satirical take on a dream of a British procedural? One thing we are sure of…This is better than the Steve Martin Pink Panther movies? This may be the best Ringo Starr movie we ever do on A Little In...

Hello movie friends and is this show tired already? Yes, it is and generally…So are we. In fact, we’ve been tired for as long as we both separately and together can remember. But we’re not too tired to keep doing the hard work with blind dates and here is another one. We are also not ashamed that we’re basic bitches for a werewolf movie (see what we did there with the canine reference?) In this ep...

Hello movie friends and move over Lopez, there is a NEW MARIO in town. And I’m not talking about the mustachioed plumber. We are talking about feeling and interpreting the size of Walt’s a**hole. No, we are talking about our new spirit animal, Mario Casas. In the film, The Invisible Guest, Mario is not giving us the nastiest mouth sounds since Skin of the Wolf, he gives us the best turtleneck wear...

Indiependents, do we have a doozy for you! Does anyone say “doozy” anymore? We do, because we like the mouthfeel of it. We do promise to not say “mouthfeel” again but are so happy to present to you, a movie, more ecologically cogent than Chloe and Theo…The Hunter; a movie so controversial, Lars Von Trier reportedly fainted twice during the premiere. No, that’s not true but do we want to go to Tasm...

Well friends in film, we have managed already to appear lazy, waaaaayyyyyyy too early in Season 2. We assure you, this is not because we’re trying to do a shot for shot remake of The Wolf of Wall Street, ala Be Kind Rewind and have become addicted to either fake or real cocaine; it’s because Ryan NEEDS to do this movie and apparently he loves Bobcat – and sources say he doesn’t give a shit what hi...

Hello and here we go, Friends! Chris, we’re going to get right down to it, this is THE film, so far. This is the most ALI movie yet. Westworld can suck it, ‘cause us, Wood-heads, were hip to this lead actress before she became a robot…and it also doesn’t have Michael Eklund in it; we said it. We at ALI are quickly becoming super-fans of this beautiful psycho as he makes his second appearance on th...

Hello friends of Independent cinema, Bobcat Goldthwait, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Found footage and novelty food items! We’re sorry for slacking a bit lately, so (insert your favorite onomatopoeia here) we’re dropping another one for you Chris. This episode is a real thrill ride, as is the film this podcast is celebrating. We may need to start tracking this, but once again, in this episode, Todd blows R...

Hello friends of glorious independent cinema and to all who make it! Today we have an episode that truly defines “family”. You thought it was the Fast & Furious franchise, but this is the one. Friends, we think being a mom is hard; and leading a bunch of unruly Vikings as a stressed-out lady is EVEN HARDER. This is an episode and film that shows you women can do it all and then some; especiall...

Hello Andy Griffith fans. What a way to start huh? But we here at ALI are just going to assume…everyone is a fan of the late (how late?) Mr. Griffith. Welcome to Episode 3 and if Tom Berenger’s agent is worth their salt, they’ll get at us about this. Because this IS THE Berenger film people should be talking about. Platoon? A joke. Inception? Hack job. Yes, we said it. Anyway, Chris, in this episo...

Hello good movie people and mostly Chris. Here we have a wonderful and fraught episode for you today, wine soaked and pissed! Or depressed. Or pissed and depressed. Pisspressed. Depissed? Either way, Paul Giamatti, true to form, evokes a new emotion in the tale of a waitress who re-discovers her love for her distant but hard-working husband, MC Gainey, in Sideways. In this episode we discuss how a...

Welcome to Season 2 Chris. We’ve been renewed by no one but our own fragile egos and here we are with open hearts and an insane desire to share wonderful films with you. We open this season with a movie that right away should have made Todd quit the show. The film, is Find Me Guilty , starring the brilliant, quaffed, indie darling, Vin Diesel. In this episode, we discover that Todd, loves Vin Dies...