Readers' reviews: today's microbudget movies, and Ryan Adams rebooted

The best of your comments on the latest films and musicTwenty years ago, a pair of films – Slacker and Straight Out of Brooklyn – began a brief and bright boom time for microbudget film-making, when several films seemingly costing peanuts and paid for on credit cards became sizable commercial hits. Last week, Ryan Gilbey set about finding what had become of that first wave of microbudget directors.Since Ryan had answered his own question, the readers embarked on a wider discussion of the mic...

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