A Little Independent

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 public Gabe Kaplan reference in several decades, the Blu Ray Director’s Commentary blows minds several times, we get visual, other big sci-fi franchises and opening crawls are loved on, Todd awkwardly calls Ryan a stallion and Ryan ponders what his “Rosebud” might be. So let’s tell anyone who opposes us to kindly “Frig Off” and take our hats off to lazy, but loving dads everywhere. And yes, we know Jamie Lee Curtis has been up to more stuff since. As we’ve embarrassingly shared, a few of these were recorded previously and have some dust on them. But we hope you still like them. Thank you for listening and supporting independent and weird films #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #frigoff #crazyball #mimirocks #teamsuck #starwars #jurassicpark #crawls #lazydad

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 stories of survival, loss, and love…a barracuda encounter…and buttocks. We also do discuss the movie, that Todd admits has “a lot of naked sharks; along with Ryan’s love for the work of Broken Lizard, we put HUGE PRESSURE on our listeners to make us famous, Ryan’s Swiss friends are possibly Swedish, surprisingly a Nancy Kerrigan joke bombs, and we struggle to remember the name of a forgotten Kathleen Turner classic…

#waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #knowledgegasm #blanchardsusan #barracuda #notbirdemic #bowlingnight #betternotcallsaul #nakedsharks

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, we have our first guest, Paris Hilton is in the film and Ryan doesn’t really dislike musicals as much as it sounds. Yes, we can’t believe it either. Also, our first podcast mascot is revealed, Todd suggests a sequel with a Most Beautiful Island crossover, Ryan reveals his Bill Moseley connection and we are glad we’re not 40 #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #replaceyourface #eightinches #soum #upsetinminnesota #doitincostume

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-brow concepts, Ryan is completely wrong about the genre of the film for most of it, Todd shows that true freedom is in how you eat, we are still waiting for Young Guns 3, we promise we love French fries, Ryan discloses the story of “Killer Joe” and we find that it's alright if you’re pointed in the wrong direction at the start of your journey. We can show you the way. Or someone will. A bunch of assholes on bikes, probably. All hail Joost #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #chaoseater #joost #killerjoe #nomoreimpressions #soum #buencamino #sorrymoneypenny

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 explode. We also discuss the legendary character actor who is, Harry Dean Stanton, Todd shares that thanks to Rust Creek he’s dared try a Vin Diesel film, we have the age old Keith David/David Keith discussion, discuss what we’d do if our respective parents gave our college funds’ to a televangelist, how a lobotomy is a pretty solid solution to a lot of problems, the TV show Air wolf is discussed for the first time in at least 10 years, we firmly believe “Otto parts” should be sweeping the Nation after this episode drops, and yes, we know that it is Tim Robbins, not Eric Roberts in Tapeheads. We don’t know what the hell we were saying either. #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #janmichaelvincent #nomoreimpressions #right #ottoparts

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 begin work on our Joe vs. the Volcano spinoff podcast (Ossie Davis still deserves an Oscar), Ryan is delighted at the connections Rust Creek has to both Vin Diesel AND Gerard Butler and we get our holiday movies confused, just in time for the holidays. #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #onecopy #nomoreimpressions #alwaysbologna #backtothewoods #happyhikes #lunacyproductions #peachfuzz

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 and yes, John Mayer does steal the show. In this episode we discuss the brilliance of John Lithgow as a villain, Ryan’s Fast 9 predictions clearly do not come true, Todd makes comparisons to an iconic scene in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man as well as coins the term: “porpoise-level”, we find yet another Andy Sidaris connection, Ryan talks about all the movies he loves and the world hates…too many movies really, and we reveal probably the most obscure movie credit yet on A Little Independent. Do we wish that Betty White was in this film? A little. Do we still want to see a spin-off movie about Smyth? Yes please. #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #thelunchroom #onecopy #nomoreimpressions #characteractors #jordanrubin #nomorebeaverjokes #courtneypalm

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 Royal family of Butter in the film…Butter. We also talk about how profoundly hilarious Jennifer Garner is, Ryan confesses more love for Tron: Legacy than has ever been confessed ever, Rob Corddry makes another appearance (at least in the film we talk about) on ALI, a little more of the curtain is peeled back as we talk about “Romancing the Stone” and we crush super hard on the truly amazing Olivia Wilde

#waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #nomoreimpressions #joanwilder #buttersupremacy #buttersaves #hoodofyourcar #tronlegacyrules

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, test our listeners patience with an early show-and-tell, Todd comes up with the perfect punk band name, Ryan gets classy with his movie references and Todd ends the episode with a hot pitch for why you should listen to this podcast. Someone had to do it and we salute you #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #nomoreimpressions #duplassbrothers #blumhouse #enjoytheriderecords #fingerblood #patronsaints #stackofclowns #notacreep

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, Ryan doesn’t gush too much about Amy Smart, this film has not one, but two Sidaris connections, Todd discusses the sordid details of his dating history, chicken nuggets are discussed way too long and Ryan truly apologizes to Todd #thelunchroom #metaldetecting #waitwait #arewerolling #montedoroforever #nomoreimpressions #maximumwalken #characteractors #moviemagic8ball #DFD #pamgate #patnotpam #thatwasdopecommaman