You know those SNL skits that go on much longer then they should? That’d be the best way to describe MacGruber. Based on the recurring SNL sketch parodying MacGyver, MacGruber stars Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, and Val Kilmer. The film opens 10 years following the murder of MacGruber’s (Will Forte) fiancée Casey (Maya …
Robert Downey Jr. and Actor/Director Jon Favreau make a great team. Favreau is a great story teller that involves himself into his films, and its clear, all of them are made with love and passion. And Downey? Hell, he’s someone who I would watch in just about anything, and I mean that, it could be …
The world of Jean-Pierre Jeunet has gotten a little big larger. After the original closing night film for the 2010 IFFB was pulled, organizers scrambled to find a replacement. And with Jeunet’s latest offering, it was the perfect and quirky choice. As the movie opens, a young boy named Bazil finds himself without a father …
Sometimes, I just want to use just a few words in a movie review. Maybe that’ll land me in the Guinness Book of World Records for shortest film review ever. If I could do that for ‘The Parking Lot Movie,’ I’d make my review either, “See this,” or perhaps I’d write the even briefer review…”Awesome!” …
‘Erasing David’ is a compelling and quite frightening documentary that brings to light the reality that even if you wanted to, it would be impossible to erase your digital foot print. The director and the main focus of ‘Erasing David,’ David Bond, set out to find out just how much information about him is out …
‘Teenage Paparazzo’ is a great documentary from actor Adrian Grenier about 14 year old Austin Visschedyk, a young paparazzo. Going into the film, I wasn’t sure what I was going to see, I’m familiar with Grenier as an actor, but as far as his directing skills, I was curious to see what he’d done with …
In 2008, as the Democratic party assembled in Denver, Colorado to nominate Barack Obama as their candidate, everything seemed to run smoothly. Or did it? AJ Schnack’s “Convention,” is the behind-the-scenes look at the convention, offering viewpoints as varied as the mayor’s office, a newly christened reporter on the political beat and a couple of …
Winter’s Bone is a chilling (no pun intended) adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel. Described as country noir, the film was masterfully adapted by director and co-writer Debra Granki, and stars Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes. The film opens in a cold setting, on a small house in the Ozarks. Ree (Jennifer Lawrence), a young 17-year …
‘Cyrus’ is the latest film from The Duplass Brothers, one of the groups behind an indie film movement called mumblecore. If you’re not familiar with the genre, its basically ultra-low budget films that foucs on relationships, using improvised scripts, and non-professioanl actors. Working up the ladder with films like ‘The Puffy Chair’ (which played at …
‘Perrier’s Bounty’ from Irish Director Ian Fitzgibbon is an intense, darkly funny thriller set in Dublin. The cast is excellent, starring the very talented Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Jodie Whittaker, and Brendan Gleeson. The film opens with Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy) passed out on a coach, and an ominous narrator (Gabriel Byrne) setting the scene …