AltWeeklies Wire
New Kurt Cobain Doc Creates a Mixtape for His Lifenew
Director AJ Schnack tells Cobain's story by using music that influenced his career and personality, not Nirvana's biggest hits.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
09-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: AJ Schnack, About A Son
Horse & Scissorsnew

Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson's attempt to quit heroin cold-turkey is the subject of an hourlong documentary that elicits tears, cheers and laughs.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Scholle, Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, Curtis Elliott and Ben Scholle, Great Smoky Mountains, HairKutt, Maurice Reese Bradley, St. Louis International Film Festival., top documentary feature honors at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmaker Showcase
Pick Your Brainnew
Missouri-made zombie comedies gnaw their way through flyover country.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Apocalypse Nownew
Up until four years ago, Chris Metzler was only vaguely familiar with the Salton Sea. But the area's sordid rep intrigued Metzler, a Missouri-bred filmmaker who, at that time, earned his keep editing "awful American B-movies" and music videos in Los Angeles.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
06-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Too Good To Be Truenew
When Paul Sturtz and David Wilson debuted their True-False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri last February, their goal was to become the premier documentary film festival in the Midwest. Mission accomplished.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
02-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Multiple, True/False Film Festival
Mindy Cohn's Diarynew
While playing plus-sized Natalie on "The Facts of Life," Cohn was, in short, an insightful, ebullient everywoman who was there for, well, every other woman on the show. A cursory glance at the text of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones books reveals that this is just the sort of woman Bridget is supposed to be.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-17-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews