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Spinning Blues Into Lies: Cadillac Records can't handle the truth Spinning Blues Into Lies: Cadillac Records can't handle the truth
First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 03, 2008
Proposition Hate: Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time Proposition Hate: Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 26, 2008
Reel It In: SLIFF rolls on with a host of events before the film fest wraps on Sunday Reel It In: SLIFF rolls on with a host of events before the film fest wraps on Sunday
The St. Louis International Film Festival continues this week and wraps with a closing-night party at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room at 8 p.m. on... More>>
By Kristie McClanahan, Alison Sieloff, Matt Kasper, Annie Zaleski, Kristen Hinman and Ella Taylor
Published: November 19, 2008
Film's Rolling: The St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates its seventeenth year Film's Rolling: The St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates its seventeenth year
Now in its seventeenth year, the St. Louis International Film Festival continues to bring fresh ideas and bold story telling from all corners of... More>>
By Aimee Levitt, Kristie McClanahan, Annie Zaleski, Chuck Wilson and Alison Sieloff
Published: November 12, 2008
Big Daddies: Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie Big Daddies: Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 05, 2008
Go Ahead, Make Her Day: Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest Go Ahead, Make Her Day: Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 29, 2008
We Rent the Night: New York cop-drama holds the audience hostage We Rent the Night: New York cop-drama holds the audience hostage
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 22, 2008
The Other Sister: Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama The Other Sister: Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 22, 2008
Bush's Brain: Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares? Bush's Brain: Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 15, 2008
Buzz Kill: The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting Buzz Kill: The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting
A young woman fights off her brutal husband; a gun goes off; a marble spins on the floor where a toddler sits unattended. From B-movie... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 15, 2008
Lies We Can Believe In: Ridley Scott's latest is the post 9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve Lies We Can Believe In: Ridley Scott's latest is the post 9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 08, 2008
Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate: Bill Maher makes an adolescent case against religion Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate: Bill Maher makes an adolescent case against religion
Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher's one-man standup attack... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 01, 2008
Your Friends and Neighbors: Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace Your Friends and Neighbors: Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 17, 2008
Intolerable Cruelty: Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading Intolerable Cruelty: Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: September 10, 2008
Antibiopic: What We Do Is Secret sanitizes the Germs' punk-rock tragedy
The year 1980 wasn't a great one for musicians in legendary bands. In May, Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis, distraught over his failing marriage... More>>
By Annie Zaleski
Published: September 10, 2008
Towering Cinema: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies Towering Cinema: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 03, 2008
Hard-Knock Life: Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom Hard-Knock Life: Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 27, 2008
About a Boy: What happens when a child murderer grows up? About a Boy: What happens when a child murderer grows up?
"So fuckin' delicate, people...they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply —... More>>
By Ernest Hardy
Published: August 20, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever: Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower Apocalypse Whatever: Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 13, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites: Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest Mighty Aphrodites: Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 13, 2008
Not Quite Ripe: Send it back. Bottle Shock's corked. Not Quite Ripe: Send it back. Bottle Shock's corked.
Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 06, 2008
Change You Can't Believe In: Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote Change You Can't Believe In: Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 30, 2008
Men Will Be Boys: With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that. Men Will Be Boys: With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 23, 2008
Shooting Stars: St. Louis and homegrown hoopsters shine in Streetballers Shooting Stars: St. Louis and homegrown hoopsters shine in Streetballers
Streetballers bills itself as an "Irish-urban drama" exploring the lives of two junior-college basketball players and their struggles within a... More>>
By Chad Garrison
Published: July 16, 2008
Dark Night: This kingdom is built on sneaky filming in the Florida Keys
For part of the production of Mosquito Kingdom, the cast and crew traveled to an island in the Florida Keys and shot the film without permits on... More>>
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: July 16, 2008
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