Three days ago, Scoot McNairy and the rest of the cast and crew of In Search of a Midnight Kiss stood on stage at the Independent Spirit Awards, receiving the coveted John Cassevettes Award. It’s a statue they can place at the top of their giant Christmas tree of success - a tree that has over...

Porn director Arturo Domingo sits in a motel room watching critics on television discuss and eviscerate his latest picture. His sadness is palpable. But Fleshbot readers know that in porn, bad publicity is an oxymoron. The Auteur Studio: Tigard Film Society Director: James Westby Cast: Melik Malkasi...

I thought last month’s Chinatown/Zodiac: Director’s Cut double-feature at the Walter Reade was going to be impossible to top for the rest of the year, but yesterday afternoon’s “Film Comment Selects� one-two punch of hard-to-find 1980s documentaries from filmmaking duo Joel DeMott and Jeff...

Last year was a tumultuous one for independent filmmaking. Coming off back-to-back years of major Oscar nominations, the strength of the new movement, and the growing awareness of non-studio projects, it was obviously not long before critics were predicting the death of indie film. Apparently, it wa...

I don’t usually get blindsided by trailers - we get our fair share of publicity emails, but nothing that blows me away - but every once in a while we get something that looks truly incredible. Check it out for yourself (in HD!): Based solely on the trailer, it looks like Dario Argento hit up a...

So I'm working on various incarnations of the same article about male bisexuality and sexual orientation and fluidity, as part of a larger nonfiction book I want to write about "bisexuality" and a much broader notion of attraction, and seemingly everywhere I turn, there is yet another example of wha...

Poor Sean Baker. Nominated twice in the same category—the John Cassavetes Award (for Best Feature Under $500,000)—at this year’s Spirit Awards. But in all seriousness, this does create a legitimate dilemma. It’s hard to push too strongly for one film when there’s another one of yours sitti...

After much deliberating, the day has finally come to unleash the first ever Hammer to Nail Awards. I can’t think of a better year to have taken the plunge and started the H2N website. Special thanks goes to Ted Hope, Corbin Day, and Mike S. Ryan for thinking I might be up to the challenge. It’s ...

I've been seeing dribs and drabs of publicity for this movie which sounds like an absolute must-see if you're Jewish you're interested in Holocaust history you like powerful adult drama you like Jeff Goldbum and/of Willem Dafoe you're perverted you're ME! OMG, this movie appears to have it all: a tr...

Today, November 21st, select cities will have the unique opportunity to check out an indie film that truly turns the concept of a superhero film on its grandly delusional ear. Special features Michael Rapaport as Les, a total loser who, thanks to an experimental drug trial, may or may not have gaine...