Youth in Revolt – Movie Review
Michael Cera returns as Nick Twisp in the new movie Youth In Revolt. The film, based on C. D. Payne’s 1993 cult novel of the same name, has been in development hell for over a decade. (MTV tried to turn the book into a television show in 1998 and, subsequently, held the rights for many […]
DVD Review Friday – “Ong-Bak”
Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao Tony Jaa Pumwaree Yodkamol We’ve seen this plot a thousand times. The head of a sacred statue gets stolen from a small Thai village and Ting (Tony Jaa) must go on a bone-breaking spree to get it back with the help of an ex-member of the village named […]
‘Zombieland’ Writers Attached To Write ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel and ‘Deadpool’
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are finding out what happens when you are the writers of a successful film. They have been tapped to write the spinoff of a spinoff film Deadpool, starring Ryan Reynolds. They have also apparently been tapped to write the sequel to G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Reynolds will be reprising […]
Sam Mendes Directing James Bond 23
People always ask me, “Blake, who is your favorite director?”, and I can never seem to answer. Over all the years of cinema there has been a lot of directors who have made a lot of leaps forward in the film making process. When you narrow it down to modern directors I can name off […]
Another New ‘Kick-Ass’ HD Trailer
This is another one of those movies that is making me incredibly excited about the prospects of 2010. My main worry is that the film will cover more than the comic has. It’s been almost two years since I started reading Kick-Ass, and it would kind of suck to not be able to finish the […]
First Look: ‘A-Team’ Trailer Starring Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper
The A-Team cast is basically a group of people who have transcended where they were in pop culture in the past couple years. Bradley Cooper has made his way onto the A-List with The Hangover, Liam Neeson had international hit Taken (and an unfortunate family loss), Sharlto Copely gave an eye popping performance in District […]
The Girlfriend Experience
Steven Soderbergh’s latest small budget “experimental” film is a triumph in both story telling and originality while successfully taking us into a world few of us understand while pairing it with a theme we can all relate to with the timely issue surrounding the downturn in the economy. First off, for being such a low […]
James Cameron Options “The Last Train From Hiroshima”
James Cameron at this moment might be the most powerful director in Hollywood. He is now responsible for the number one and two grossing films of all time, so what do you do next? You option projects that are a personal to you. With Cameron he has made a career out of it. His obsession […]
“Grease” is coming to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis!
IS COMING TO THE FABULOUS FOX! STARRING PLATINUM-SELLING SINGER/SONGWRITER AND “AMERICAN IDOL” WINNER TAYLOR HICKS WELCOMES NEW CAST MEMBERS ACE YOUNG, LAURA D’ANDRE, ALLISON FISCHER, JESSE JP JOHNSON AND JAMISON SCOTT The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASE™, opens in St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre for 16 performances, January […]
Youth in Revolt
Youth in Revolt might look like another run of the mill Michael Cera movie, but in actuality it is one of his best acted and broadest range shown yet in a surprisingly fun and irreverent farce about fighting for the one you love. Nick Twisp is your average teenage boy, without a girl, enthralled with […]