Whiteout
Every time I leave the theater on a film like this I ask myself, “Do the people associated with this film know it is this bad?” I think more often than not many people involved with projects know they have made a lackluster film that will be forgotten just as quickly as it was made. […]
9
9 is the ambitious animated film from newcomer Shane Acker. The film is beautiful, yet is still flawed. However people who have been bored by traditional American animation, and moved onto the Japanese variety, might want to hold off on the switch. This new film along with Focus Feature’s other animated film this year, “Coraline,” […]
Gamer
Gamer Directed by: Neveldine/Taylor Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Logan Lerman Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins Rating: R Release Date: Sept 4, 2009 We have all seen movies made about video games. This movie is abstract in the sense that this type of video game does not yet exist. In this […]
Extract
The latest from Mike Judge is a big improvement over his last film, Idiocracy, but doesn’t approach the status of his most famous film, Office Space. Judge turns the limelight this time on the boss instead of the worker, and while funny we find out the working man is much funnier. Extract takes us into […]
The Final Destination (3D)
What could four mid-twenty-year-olds, Bobby Campo (Nick O’Bannon), Lori Milligan (Shantel Van Santen), Nick Zano (Hunt Wynorski), and Haley Webb (Janet Cunningham) have in common with a Security Guard (Mykelti Williamson), a Mother (Krista Allen), a Gearhead and his girlfriend (Andrew Fiscella)/ (Stephanie Honre), a Racist and his wife (Justin Welborn)/ (Lara Grice), and finally […]
Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee’s latest is his lesser effort as of late as he starts off on the right foot but slowly dissolves into a bit of a mess with no narrative to speak of for the second half. Elliot Teichberg is a want a be artist living in New York City, only to see most of […]
Play the Game
This cute little independent picture has a good idea at its core, but has a bit too much cliché and uneven work by its lead to really stand out above being an average comedy. David Mitchell is a ladies man and he has a plan and he sticks to it no matter what. Not looking […]
Streetballers
A local St. Louis production, Streetballers is a great film that really gives me hope that the St. Louis film landscape can produce just as good of films as other more film centric areas of the country like LA and New York. Streetballers follows John (writer and director Matthew Scott Krentz) a college student who […]
Shorts
The starts of this movie are, as you can tell in the title, a bunch of “shorts.” With this film, Robert Rodriguez has made the kids version of his buddy Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Shorts made the process more technical with fast forward, rewind, and pause buttons. The back and forth cutting doesn’t change the […]
Post Grad
Ryden Malby is an ambitious young woman who has a plan. She seems to have her entire life worked out to even the smallest of details. But plans change when a “sure thing” falls short, and Ryden is left trying to put the pieces of her broken plan back together. From the opening credits, Ryden […]