Hollywood's He-Man And His Formidable Feet Of Clay
Our Film Admissions subject for the month of November is the athletic, adventurous, animated Burt Lancaster. ...
Things Are Heavy On November 21, 2015
November 21, 2015. We’re a month out from “Back to the Future Day”, that occasion that inspired so many revival screening...
Are You Or Have You Ever Been A Party To Condescending Biopics?
DIRECTOR: JAY ROACH/2015
“Liberal claptrap!”
That’s how the late film critic Joe Williams...
Documentary Brings The Indispensable Book To Life
DIRECTOR: KENT JONES/2015
“It’s just a pile of paper.”
That’s what filmmaker Wes Anderson says about th...
Goodbye, Mr. Bond?
DIRECTOR: SAM MENDES/2015
JIM TUDOR: A major ghost from 007’s past is back to haunt him in Spectre, the latest entry in the monumentally ...
Director of SAVING SHILOH, ALICE UPSIDE DOWN, and the new drama EVAN'S CRIME
Filmmaker Sandy Tung has had a long and respectable career in independent filmmaki...
Small Transgressions Yield Major Fallout
DIRECTED BY SANDY TUNG/2015
Shot in Baton Rogue on a small budget in a short amount of time, the somber new film Evan...
Otherwise Clever Zombie Film Falls Prey To Crassness Overkill
DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LANDON/2015
There’s a long history of teens setting out into the woods...
Hail To The "Genre Queen" Who's No Alien To Drama And Comedy
Before Sigourney Weaver was so abruptly attacked by her ghoulishly possessed appartment, and there ...
Spielberg and Hanks Reunite For Cold War Thriller
DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG/2015
Although he’s tried and tried to convince us otherwise, Steven Spielberg ma...
Jim co-founded ZekeFilm in 2011. He's been writing about films since 2003 for outlets such as ScreenAnarchy. He is the current President of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, and an adjunct instructor of film studies at Webster University. He's also worked as video editor and Art Director for professional film and video productions. He also co-hosted the long-running comedy podcast, The Wonder Show. He is a life-long St. Louisian living with his wife and four children.
