(Check out Jessica Baxter’s I Know Catherine, the Log Lady movie review. It’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) You probably DO know Catherine, the Log Lady. She was an actress for stage and […]

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(The classic TV series Columbo has come under increased popularity amongst cinefiles for it’s always clever scripting but, moreso for a steady parade of outstanding character actors. Jonathan Marlow digs into the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray collection of the show’s first […]

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Sans hyperbole, Rogers Park features some of the most intense social situations in cinema, with remarkably frank discussions of sex (or lack thereof).

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Once again micro-budget filmmaker Frank V. Ross has shone his camera lens on the people that you see when you're walking down the street, the blue collar 9-5ers living paycheck to paycheck, that you see each day. Bloomin Mud Shuffle features by far his biggest cast of known actors but the film maintains Ross's insight, intellect and fly-on-the-wall sensibilities.

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If Andrew Bujalski’s first two films were focused on characters staring into the precipice of adulthood (a metaphor that Garden State made all too literal), then the denizens of Beeswax are inside the sinkhole staring back.

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To some, it may seem strange that the daughter of the figurehead of American Independent Cinema would chose a horror genre as her first fiction feature and yet, in this current climate, where most indie films would make John puke with their utter cowardice and impersonal whiny pleas for market acceptance, this choice seems oddly apropos.

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Sawdust City, which owes at least some small debt to Cassavetes, as well as to Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail, rather indulges us in a doomed brotherhood that we’re rooting for even as we’re watching it fall to pieces.

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