Restaurant Review: Fountain On Locust
Although the word is already out about this great store, it isn’t swarming with yuppie preteens or anything yet. As you might have guessed from the title this is a throwback to old style soda fountains that have all but been lost. This place is helping to form one of the cornerstones of the quickly […]
Concert Review: Vampire Weekend At Chaifetz Arena
In the age of the Internet it feels like four year old band Vampire Weekend has been around forever. With only a self titled debut album and 2010’s Contra, I felt behind the curve walking into SLU’s Chaifetz Arena having missed them live a few years back. Chaifetz is definitely not the most intimate setting […]
TV Review: Mad Men 4.11: Chinese Wall
I am not going to lie, after one viewing of this week’s episode of Mad Men, Chinese Wall; I can’t help but think that this was one of my least favorite episodes of the show yet. What’s great about Mad Men though is that the episode was still a solid hour of television even if […]
Concert Review: The National at The Pageant on September 30th, 2010
Hearing The National soundcheck, while buying Starburst at the Suite 100 store attached to the Pageant, reminded me how excited I was to see them in St. Louis. A short, but energetic, set at Lollapalooza left me hungry for full concert. Being used to performers often ignoring the actual time on the bill, it was […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Let Me In
Let Me In is one of the most successful foreign film adaptations ever and it does that by pulling from both the source novel and the film to give itself enough of its own identity to forget about the original film, Let the Right One In, if you have seen it. Reviewing Matt Reeves’ film […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “The Social Network”
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Mark Zuckerberg the disputed creator of Facebook, in what is thus far the best film of the year – The Social Network. Don’t let the subject matter fool you. While the technology is new, the story is as old as time – love, loyalty, betrayal. Set in the present day, we […]
Let Me In
Ever since this remake of the Swedish film, Let the Right One In, was announced I’ve encountered nothing but trepidation. Why? Well, because the original film was about as perfect as you can get within the genre. It had perfect tone, great acting, and beautiful visuals. Luckily, director Matt Reeves was smart enough to do […]
Jack Goes Boating
Jack Goes Boating is Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, and is based on a play of the same name by Robert Glaudini who also did the screenwriting duties for the film. The film follows Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a single overweight New York limo driver who lives in his uncle’s basement, as […]
Freakonomics
So often when I tell friends about an interesting non-fiction book, they scoff at me, and tell me to stop being so pretentious. Unfortunately, a similar reaction is garnered when I talk about an awesome documentary. (I still can’t get friends to watch Hoop Dreams.) However, when it comes to Freakonomics, just about anyone can […]