AltWeeklies Wire
Striker's Guiltnew
St. Louis-area writer Paul Guyot feels isolated from his fellow picketers in Hollywood.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
12-14-2007 |
Movies
Julie Delpy's '2 Days in Paris' Explores the Hard Parts of Romancenew
Delpy's zippy romantic comedy is all entanglement: It's what happens when you’ve spent the past few days in Venice with explosive diarrhea, and the next 48 hours brings only language barriers, close quarters with the parents, and a virtual Yellow Pages of ex-lovers.
Riverfront Times |
Jim Ridley |
09-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
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
What Does a Munchkin Have to Do to Land on the St. Louis Walk of Fame?new
Mickey Carroll is one of just nine surviving Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, who were inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week -- no similar honor awaits Carroll in his hometown of St. Louis, but it's not for lack of trying.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
06-29-2007 |
Movies
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
Queasy Piecesnew
Three . . . Extremes is a trilogy of short films that root around in the dark regions of the psyche and conclude that human behavior is pretty appalling.
Riverfront Times |
Bill Gallo |
11-02-2005 |
Reviews
Pick Your Brainnew
Missouri-made zombie comedies gnaw their way through flyover country.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bent Out of Shapenew
This gay slasher flick probably won't scare many in the audience aside from misplaced Southern Baptists.
Riverfront Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-25-2005 |
Reviews
Inspiration for the Strongnew
Released in the same year as Citizen Kane (1941), this account of an English professor who falls hard for two unavailable men is actually the superior film.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
09-06-2005 |
Reviews
Bears Are Usnew
This baseball film is both a spot-on 1970s period piece and a spectacularly irreverent movie for kids whose parents let them curse at will.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
07-26-2005 |
Reviews
A Boy-Man Love Storynew
Fauntleroy's pro-gay DNA is well-established in this 1936 film.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
07-20-2005 |
Reviews
Dark Alleysnew
A documentary shows what appears to be left of the sport of bowling: a touching combination of brave striving, low comedy and back-street tragedy.
Riverfront Times |
Bill Gallo |
07-12-2005 |
Reviews
The Wedding Stingernew
A young Turkish/German woman controlled by her strict Muslim family decides that marriage to a self-destructive alcoholic is her only way out.
Riverfront Times |
Melissa Levine |
07-06-2005 |
Reviews
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
Hut, Hut, Hurl!new
Burt Reynolds' new football film is sure to offend special-interest groups representing ethnic minorities, women, homos and individuals with genetic mutations, such as retards and giants.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
05-26-2005 |
Reviews
