Indiepix hits the town with THREE COMRADES (review)

After being chewed out for their flagging performance in a slow economy, three young phone salesmen hit the town for drinks, but their increasingly aggressive behavior spirals out of control into a climax of violence in this Russian look at toxic masculinity.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

THREE COMRADES DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Russian LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

Indiepix peers into THE BLUE EYES (Review)

Paul and Karen travel to Mexico to trace the travels of his late anthropologist grandfather and have a run-in with fate in the form of a shape-shifting witch.

REVIEW LINK: IndiePix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

THE BLUE EYES DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English/Spanish/Tzotzil LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer 

 

indiepix dines on A FEAST OF MAN (Review)

After their wealthy, pleasure-loving friend dies in a fiery accident, five friends gather for the weekend for his video will in which he promises a fortune if they will consume his corpse at dinner in this satiric comedy.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

A FEAST OF MAN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Modern Luxury" advertisement short

indiepix books TIME ZONE INN (review)

A couple doing a test run for a long distance relationship book a stay at a bed and breakfast know as the TIME ZONE INN where each room is its own location in another city.  Just as they and another couple question whether they can be apart and stay in love, the niece of the owner arrives with ideas that they find both liberating and destructive.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

TIME ZONE INN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
• Italian LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Indiepix Promo Trailer

Indiepix cheers on LOLA (review)

Lola and her friends are college bound. When they are hassled by a group of vollyball players at the local rec center, they challenge the other gang to a winner-takes-all match.  The problem is: they must learn to play vollyeball in a week to beat them.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

LOLA DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.30:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu/English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix takes ONE MORE SHOT (Review)

Johnny Tough is a retired boxer living in the countryside peacefully until his mortal enemy Tap-Tap gets out of jail and kidnaps the daughter of Johnny's lawyer to force him to reveal Johnny's whereabouts.  Fortunately, Johnny has been studying martial arts with his buddy Chan and they are more than ready to take on the enemy in this South African eighties action flick.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

ONE MORE SHOT DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.29:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix celebrates the return of MOKO JUMBIE (review)

Born and raised in England, Indian college student Asha travels to Trinidad where she spent her childhood holidays to stay with her aunt and becomes embroiled in a feud between her aunt's family and a voodoo practicing matriarch and enters into a starcrossed affair with the woman's son.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MOKO JUMBIE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.73:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Vashti Anderson and cinematographer Shlomo Godder
• Theatrical Trailer

Retro Afrika Bioscope rescues HOSTAGE (Review)

A blackmail ring decides to expand into the drug trade and tries to force a warehouse owner into working with them.  When he refuses, they try to blackmail him.  When they take him hostage, he gets even in this Apartheid-era South African thriller.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

HOSTAGE DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix and Retro Afrika Bioscope rescue a RICH GIRL (Review)

A bodyguard falls for his client when he is hired to protect a RICH GIRL from harm in this eighties South African action flick.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

RICH GIRL DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix and Retro Afrika Bioscope present ISIBOSHWA (review)

Three teenage boys on a camping trip must band together and courageously face a sinister interloper in the South African coming-of-age tale ISIBOSHWA.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

ISIBOSHWA DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix takes on CHARLIE STEEL (review)

When a businessman's daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, he calls in private detective Charlie Steel.  Steel poses as a gunman to infiltrate the gang but is recognized by an old enemy.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

CHARLIE STEEL DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic pillarboxed 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• English Subtitles (burnt-in)
• Trailer

Indiepix vows REVENGE (review)

When his wife is murdered and his son blinded by a gang of thugs, a peace-loving farmer trains with a hermit gunman to take REVENGE in this recently rediscovered western produced in South Africa during Apartheid.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

REVENGE DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix spotlights THE COMEDIANS (review)

Fortune-seeking huster Ace Bona borrows his reluctant friend's magic ring to make himself a wealthyman, only to find that his greed is uncontrollable.  Obsessed with the idea of possessing the ring for himself, he hires a group of thugs to rob his friend.  Meanwhile, his friend has a trick up his own sleeve in this rediscovered Apartheid-era comedy.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDCompare)

THE COMEDIANS DVD-R specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Zulu Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Trailer

Indiepix charts THE SUFFERING OF NINKO (review)

Chaste monk Ninko proves irresistible to women.  Tormented by visions of an alluring but demonic young woman and harassed by the sexually-starved village locals, Ninko takes a cleansing journey to the mountains only to happen upon a village where the men have all been seduced and killed by a female demon, and he may be her perfect match.

REVIEW LINK: Indiepix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD-R (DVDBeaver)

THE SUFFERING OF NINKO DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Trailer

IndiePix braves THE WINTER (review)

In debt and unable to write, a Greek immigrant living in London escapes back to Greece and his late father's derelict family home in search of inspiration.  As he delves into his father's fantastical world, he is haunted by childhood memories and sinister apparitions that may or may not be the product of his father's imagination.

REVIEW LINK: IndiePix (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE WINTER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
• Greek Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Featurettes:
• "Becoming Niko"
• "Family Ghost Stories"
• "The House/Location Video"
• "Developing the Look"
• "Visual Effects"
• "Trigitis" music video
• Theatrical Trailer

indiepix casts a WHITE SHADOW (review)

The award-winning WHITE SHADOW is the story of Alias, an Albino teenager sent to live with his uncle in Dar Es Salaam after his father is brutally murdered by hunters who supply Albino parts to witch doctors.  He hopes that he is leaving superstition behind in the villages but finds little difference between the outback and the city in the struggle to survive.

REVIEW LINK: IndiePix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

WHITE SHADOW DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Swahili Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Behind the Scenes segments and Deleted Scenes

IndiePix catches a FALLING STAR (review)

This provocative avant-garde Catalan drama focuses fancifully on the very brief reign of Amadeo of Savoy as King of Spain.  Unwanted by parliament, the bankers, and the church, and cloistered in the palace for his safety, Amadeo embraces a life of pleasure and beauty and forgets his ideals of freedom and progress.

REVIEW LINK: IndiePix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

FALLING STAR DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Catalan Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• "Behind the Walls" making of featurette