Writing for Cinema Femme: Vol. 1
I often wonder whether my wife and I ever would have met had she not founded the site, Cinema Femme. It connected directly with a passion I had developed simply […]
Category Archives: Indie Spotlight
Saying Goodbye to “Muppet*Vision 3D”: My Day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
On April 3rd, 2025, I spent the entire day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, one of the four parks that make up Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I spent the […]
Remembering David Lynch
The first David Lynch film I saw was “The Straight Story,” which is one of the most achingly beautiful films ever made. I was quite young when I first saw […]
Mystery is Better Than Truth: Lucian Georgescu and Barry Gifford on “The Phantom Father”
The following article was originally published on White City Cinema on April 5th, 2022. Sometimes the story behind the birth of a film is no less worthy of being made […]
Indie Outlook Picks the 2023 Nominees
No matter how long Indie Outlook remains on hiatus due to other projects, this site will continue to be the place where you will annually find, in addition to my […]
Top 20 Films of 2023
Last month, my wife and I attended a traveling exhibition in Chicago that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, and the aftertaste that it left me with […]
Writing for RogerEbert.com: Vol. 9
2023 marks my ninth year of writing for RogerEbert.com, and though Indie Outlook remains on an indefinite hiatus due to other projects, I couldn’t resist publishing my annual compilation of […]
Writing for RogerEbert.com: Vol. 8
As Indie Outlook comes to a close, at least for the time being, I have taken a significant hiatus from writing reviews and interviews for RogerEbert.com, in light of other […]
Indie Outlook: Tenth Anniversary
Last month, I had the honor of delivering the keynote speech at the Illinois Journalism Education Association’s All-State Journalism Team & Journalist of the Year Celebration in Springfield, Illinois. I […]
Sarah Sherman and Jessica Barr on “September”
The following article was written by Rebecca Martin, publisher of Cinema Femme and festival director of the Cinema Femme Short Film Fest. “The final moments of director Sarah Sherman’s ‘September’ […]
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