A Little Independent

Wow friends. Todd is sur le fue and we’ve got ALL the things in this one. We’ve really got a whole lot packed into this 17-hour episode. In a movie that asks: If there is a murderer on the loose and your daughter is the target, do you still do your full 3-hour morning routine before checking on her? "Smells is what we’re talking about” and we are sharing so much more. In this episode, we explore t...

Movie friends, we are here with another episode and this one is special. Like, finally learning to backwards roller skate, special. This episode’s movie is our first REQUEST! We are very humbled and giddy to have been asked to do a movie by a friend of the show and what a movie. As if Toby Jones wasn’t weird an ingredient enough, we have…well the rest of Berberian Sound Studio….a film about a man...

Hello A Little Independent Friends. Right out the gate we are human and are sorry, the audio on this episode is a little under par in spots and for that we are again, very sorry. We aim for the best, but hope you can roll with us. Alas, here we are with another episode and we find ourselves asking the question: What if a suburban white kid drizzled a bunch of acid on a fun-loving trailer park? We...

Hello friends and here in this post-St. Patrick’s day malaise, why not forget the sodium content of that corned beef and focus on…sushi! Yes, today’s movie can ruin a lot of childhoods. This movie shows us that Luke Skywalker has a filthy mouth and Atreyu grew up to be a tattooed meth head apparently. This episodes’ movie, Sushi Girl suggests, why have a normal dinner party with friends, when you...

Everyone, we have a movie here that is probably our most prestigious? It sure did attract all of the awards that year as well as launched as Todd says, the “biggest female superstar of this generation” and someone we know would probably be a guest on our show if we ask…just because she seems cool as hell, honestly. We are going “back to the woods, baby” and featuring a film with the best random bl...

No, it’s not that The Mule. It’s not the one with Clint Eastwood as a…you know, drug mule. It’s about another drug mule and one, we will say, that came before the honorable Clint. You may have noticed we’re dropping this early and it is just one…we could not hold in, any longer. And if one terrible pun isn’t enough, Todd says about this episode, “Everything has gone to shit.” In our The Mule, we l...

Hello movie friends, and welcome to an episode of A Little Independent, that will hopefully either compliment your elated mood from the Super Bowl, bring you back from the brink of seemingly incurable depression from the Super Bowl, or more likely, you didn’t know the Super Bowl even happened and are psyched that we are bringing you our FIRST REQUEST! This iconic movie was requested by a listener,...

Well friends, we agree…there should be more movies like this. Beautiful tales of a profoundly lazy father’s love and unyielding support for his daughter. Morality tales, where the whims of a delightful ten-year-old sadist, direct us to the blissful destruction of the planet. No, really, Mimi RULES! In this, our most religiously symbolic episode yet, we become true “pitch men”, Todd drops the first...

Hello movie friends and welcome to a breath of fresh air (literally) after the dreariness and Paris Hilton of the last episode, and to a movie that causes you to think twice about using Groupon, for anything really; and..a…comedy? Well, it’s not billed as such but we suppose we make a slight case for this film being a comedy. Regardless, Todd gives it all in this one and lays it all out there with...

Greetings movie friends and welcome to a new year; and with it, we, your friends at A Little Independent, wanted to bring you all something different…and to quote this episode’s guest: “Nobody’s gonna go home happy” in this movie. But they’re going to sing about it. Yes, prepare to “replace your face” in ALI’s first musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera. We are bringing you not only our first musical,...

Buen Camino everyone and to quote the legendary Martin Sheen in this film…”Here we go.” And we’ll tussle with you if you think anyone can deliver such a simple line better. Here we discuss a film by the star of our previous film, that should stick with you, redefines family and shows the importance of community…no matter how bad it may smell and how few bathrooms it has. Cuddled next to those high...

Attention all you punks, here is a film for you, like it or not! Before he became immortalized, by two dudes trying to get into a night club. And even before he starred in the best movie of all time, Maximum Overdrive…Emilio Estevez starred in a little independent film about a man. A Repo Man. In this episode we discuss a movie that leaves you with really one inescapable lesson: People just explod...

Well movie friends, we are back in the woods. We are going to what works but this time it is a little different. This may be a first as this movie has legit very cool and unique merch (we don’t have our sherriff hats yet…). Todd delivers a movie with truly amazing performances and bologna. Rust Creek is the film at it allows us to once again talk about the movies we love that others hate, finally...

Hello Indie movie friends, we certainly hope you are very well on this Halloween, a favorite holiday here at ALI. We are dropping an episode one day early to…well, we just want to get this one out there because we’re darned excited about it. This episode’s movie finally allowed us to analyze in detail the intelligence of beavers…or at least zombie ones. The movie Zombeavers is a treasure, everyone...

Greetings movie friends. This episode gets us teetering on the “biggest” movie we’ve done yet? I mean, yeah, Wolverine is in it and all; but if we told you Hugh Jackman plays a sleazy Iowan used-car empresario with an unexplainable Texas accent amongst the backdrop of a butter-sculpting competition, you’d say, that sounds Independent to me! In this episode, we do talk accents, as we talk about the...

Well, this episode really has it all. I mean it might really have it all. In this episode we ask: Who is the creepiest creep? And we know it’s not Todd. This episode’s movie might evoke the dulcet sounds of a slightly overrated 90’s song but that will soon be replaced by the old Peachfuzz song and the sound of an axe. The movie is Creep and in this episode we fully share our love of Andy Sidaris,...

Here it is folks. The episode that makes it abundantly clear that we started recording these some time ago. We hope that the magic isn’t ruined. But this episode’s movie is a magical smorgasbord of all the character actors you can eat and starring the guy who played the asshole in most 80’s movies, Scotland, PA. In this episode, we discuss that one thing that Fassbender and Neeson have in common,...

Here we have an episode that we believe so far is the only film we’ve done our Producer has actually watched. We move from Pageants to…competitive gymnastics; that aren’t competing in a world where the Olympics exist, in a movie that probably assaults Todd’s delicate sensibilities? This episode has it all: The most difficult IMDB movie description Ryan has ever had to get through; we reminisce abo...

In this, the eleventh episode of ALI, we take a significant turn away from the emotional heft of Wings of Desire with a look into the world of Pageant Professionals with the lovely little film, Happy, Texas. We have another Pearlman sighting in this one, as well as wonder why Steve Zahn isn’t more of a huge star, witness the best interpretive dance ever, the Corrections Office sets us straight on...

Well, we’ve decided to experiment early with this podcast. Is it a gamble worth taking? We hope so. We have decided to go into a movie blind (both of us) and Ryan picked the heavy, German existential romp, Wings of Desire. In this episode we discuss our love of Peter Falk, how many times he has played himself, how much we don’t know about German cinema, ponder the question, “did people see this wh...

This episode brought to you by Capri Hammers. Not really, but we’re open to it. In this episode, Todd brings us a nice light-hearted romp of a film. That is if your interpretation of levity is murder by hammer. In this episode we manage to work our love of another Joe in (the one who is versus a volcano), discuss the obscure indie actress Sigourney Weaver, the incredible work ethic of the legendar...

No, it’s not totally about poker but it’s about finding out how many tubes of super glue it takes to super glue a human being to a wall. Episode 8 brings a ton of excitement, and the movie brings twists and turns aplenty. The guys talk Ron Pearlman’s metamorphosizing earring, the versatility of tasers, amazing villain performances and their odd pursuits, Todd shares a bit of his enigmatic history...

Here we are at lucky number seven, and we find ourselves with the most perplexing movie-ending yet! In this episode, Todd, unlike Bob from State and Main, discloses his love for French movies, Ryan equally heralds his love for 90’s erotic thrillers and we flip flop opinions all over the place. We also discuss the main characters perplexing diet, including what the hell is with the yogurt, the diff...

And we arrive at episode 6, where we go from a movie like Skin of the Wolf with almost no dialogue to a movie like this, with all of the dialogue. In this episode the guys discuss the most awkward on screen kiss ever, Todd’s obsession with Natasha from Most Beautiful Island continues, Brian Bloom is referenced for the first time since 1992, why we feel justified in calling Carol a terrible hotel e...

EPISODE 5 – In this, the fifth episode of the podcast, the two youths discuss what they missed in the last episode, the fact that Superman 3 (especially Richard Pryor’s performance) is pretty fantastic, the movie theme of compassion continues, Ryan let’s on that we’ll see Mario Kassas again, Todd’s ancestral ties to wolf pelt sales and how Ryan cannot stomach gross eating sounds, especially in thi...