A Little Independent
A Little Independent is a movie podcast hosted by two lifelong movie-lovers sharing their love of independent, obscure, or just plain weird movies. Hosts Ryan Buck and Todd Burnaska are long-time friends and film fanatics who have been on their respective missions to find and share with one another movies that don’t get all the attention…or the CGI. And some that might just be a little too strange to exist even at all. Alas, Todd and Ryan have been discovering and discussing these types of movies for years and now they are thrilled to share the experience with you. Yeah, it may get weird...But you might also make a new friend.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 107 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Berberian Sound Studio
Trailer Park Jesus
Hello A Little Independent Friends. Right out the gate we are human and are sorry, the audio on this episode is a little under par in spots and for that we are again, very sorry. We aim for the best,…
Sushi Girl
Winter's Bone
Everyone, we have a movie here that is probably our most prestigious? It sure did attract all of the awards that year as well as launched as Todd says, the “biggest female superstar of this generati…
The Mule
No, it’s not that The Mule. It’s not the one with Clint Eastwood as a…you know, drug mule. It’s about another drug mule and one, we will say, that came before the honorable Clint. You may have not…
Napoleon Dynamite
Hello movie friends, and welcome to an episode of A Little Independent, that will hopefully either compliment your elated mood from the Super Bowl, bring you back from the brink of seemingly incurabl…
Psycho Goreman
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 delightf…
Open Water
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 …
Repo! The Genetic Opera
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 gonn…
The Way
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 …
Repo Man
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 tim…
Rust Creek
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 hav…
Zombeavers
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 t…
Butter
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-ca…
Creep
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 so…
Scotland, PA.
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 o…
The Bronze
Here we have an episode that we believe so far is the only film we’ve done our Producer has actually watched. We move from Pageants to…competitive gymnastics; that aren’t competing in a world where …
Happy, Texas
In this, the eleventh episode of ALI, we take a significant turn away from the emotional heft of Wings of Desire with a look into the world of Pageant Professionals with the lovely little film, Happy…
Wings of Desire
Well, we’ve decided to experiment early with this podcast. Is it a gamble worth taking? We hope so. We have decided to go into a movie blind (both of us) and Ryan picked the heavy, German existential…
You Were Never Really Here
This episode brought to you by Capri Hammers. Not really, but we’re open to it. In this episode, Todd brings us a nice light-hearted romp of a film. That is if your interpretation of levity is murder…