Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Paul
Paul is a love letter to Spielberg and Lucas of the 70’s and 80’s with more references than you can shake a stick at in what is basically a giant geek road comedy that will work for film nerds and regular folk alike. Greg Mottola takes Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s script (they also star) […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Limitless
Limitless is a visual interesting and fun movie to watch, but it feels quite thin on plot and message for such an interesting and cerebral subject matter. Neil Burger’s film follows Eddie Morra who is a struggling writer, recently dumped by his girlfriend, and has no signs of forward growth anywhere in the near or […]
“Limitless” Starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro
Low expectations can do a lot for a film. I walked into Limitless with the basic idea of a premise I found ridiculous. The fact of the matter is we do use all of our brain, not just 20% as one character states. This false premise unfortunately lowered my expectations so much that they had […]
Review – “Paul” Directed by Greg Mottola, Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have created something of a cottage industry deconstructing American genre films. The two Brits first breakthrough film was 2004’s zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead. They followed that up with 2007’s action parody, Hot Fuzz. What made both films work so exceedingly well was a palpable affection for their source […]
Movie Review – “Paul” Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Directed by Greg Mottola (“Superbad,” “Adventureland”), along with being written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz), “Paul” has a lot to live up to. Mottola’s last two films have been critical successes, the former of which did excellent at the box office as well. Pegg and Frost […]
Movie Review – “The Lincoln Lawyer” Starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good courtroom drama. The closest thing was “Conviction” last year, but that centered more around the main character becoming an attorney. In “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Matthew McConaughey plays a defense lawyer that is hard not to like. The same can be said about the film. Mick Haller […]
Videogame Review: Homefront – Multiplatform
With the rise of cinematic video games it isn’t a mystery why Homefront has garnered so much buzz. Advertised as “from the writer of Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now”, St. Louis native and Oscar nominee John Milius takes the helm of this story about a potential future in which Korea becomes the new world power […]
Movie Review: “Red Riding Hood” Starring Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman
Let the Twilight-ification of our childhoods begin! Red Riding Hood has arrived. Amanda Seyfried stars as Valerie (aka Red Riding Hood). She lives in a vaguely medieval village that’s spent the last few generations being stalked by a werewolf. Currently however the township has arrived at a détente of sorts with the lycanthrope. In exchange […]
Movie Review: “Battle Los Angeles” Starring Aaron Eckhart
It’s been about a year and a half since a good alien movie has hit the big screen. 2009’s “District 9” was a huge success, and will probably go down as one of the best of it’s kind. Fast forward to March 2011, and “Battle Los Angeles” has hit the big screen. Luckily it was […]
Movie Review: “Red Riding Hood” Starring Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman
Almost an instant classic, the only thing preventing this film from earning a Best Picture nomination is everything about it.