	Movies The Invention of Lying I Cannot Tell a Lie... By Martin Malloy (Oct 1, 2009) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Ricky Gervais rose to fame first playing the awkwardly hilarious David Brent in "The Office" and then the pathetically brilliant Andy Millman in "Extras". His brand of embarrassing, self-deprecating humor immediately won audiences in the UK and created him as a cult figure in America. With The Invention of Lying Gervais intends to finally take the States by storm and establish himself as a true artist in the process. More
	Movies Surrogates The Virtual Life is Not Worth Living By Mel Valentin (Sep 25, 2009) Rating: 2 out of 5 stars. Surrogates is undermined by genre clichés, shallow characters, and flaccid, unimaginative set pieces. Simply put, it is one graphic novel adaptation that fails on every level. More
	Movies The Burning Plain Love Can Be Messy By Martin Malloy (Sep 25, 2009) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. The Burning Plain is ambitious. Coming from the Guillermo Arriaga, writer of Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros, that’s a given, though. However, this is Arriaga’s directorial debut, having broken the tie with collaborator/director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Ironically, it’s not the direction that hinders The Burning Plain but the writing. It’s merely a great idea that he wasn’t fully able to realize. More
	Movies Love Happens …And So Do Bad Movies By Martin Malloy (Sep 18, 2009) Rating: 2 out of 5 stars. If you want a girl crying on your shoulder this weekend, take her to Love Happens. If you want to be entertained, stay clear. It’s the same romantic story that’s been rehashed since the creation of the medium, and to far better results. More
	Movies No Impact Man Engrossing Environmentally Themed Documentary By Mel Valentin (Sep 18, 2009) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Few documentaries are as enlightening, educational and engrossing as No Impact Man, a “fly-on-the-wall” documentary nimbly directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. No Impact Man follows environmentalist, activist, author, teacher, and blogger Colin Beavan as he takes radical steps to minimize or eliminate his impact on the environment over the course of an entire year. He hopes to “reduce, reuse, and recycle” his way to eliminating (or radically decreasing) his carbon footprint. More
	Movies Jennifer’s Body All Body, No Brains By Martin Malloy (Sep 18, 2009) Rating: 1 out of 5 stars. Since Juno introduced Diablo Cody to the world and garnered her an Oscar for best original screenplay, she wasn't completely welcomed with open arms. While the film started out as the underdog, it soon swept the nation and caused just as hefty a backlash. Whether or not one agrees with the praise bestowed on the film, at worst it was a charming, quirky indie comedy built upon a solid script. Naturally, the new "it" girl has a lot riding on her sophomore script and unfortunately for Cody, Jennifer's Body won't be the film that silences her detractors. More
	Movies The Informant! A Compelling and Frustrating Film By Mel Valentin (Sep 18, 2009) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. With the summer blockbuster season already a distant memory, the Academy Awards season unofficially kicks off with The Informant!, a comedy-drama directed by Steven Soderbergh (Che, Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13, Erin Brockovich) and starring Matt Damon as the “informant” of the title, Mark Whitacre, an executive-turned-whistleblower instrumental in bringing down Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), an agri-business corporation, for food additive price-fixing in the mid-90s. An occasionally compelling, sometimes frustrating film, The Informant! falls short of Oscar-worthiness. More
	Movies Whiteout Snow Job By Rossiter Drake (Sep 11, 2009) Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars. Kate Beckinsale’s latest chiller, set around an Antarctica research station and inspired by a series of graphic novels by Greg Rucka, shows little regard for logic. More
	Movies 9 Leading the Charge Against Technology By Rossiter Drake (Sep 11, 2009) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. There is no denying the technical wizardry of 9, Shane Acker’s feature-length reimagining of his own Oscar-nominated short from 2005. Backed by producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), the young director has assembled a superior voice cast, led by the wonderfully expressive Christopher Plummer, to breathe life into a familiar post-apocalyptic fable distinguished by its exquisite artistry. More
	Movies The Baader Meinhof Complex Engrossing Political-Historical Drama By Mel Valentin (Sep 4, 2009) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. Engrossing, fascinating, and compelling, The Baader Meinhof Complex offers a clear-eyed, unromantic look at the pitfalls of how rigid, dogmatic ideology becomes the justification for political violence and not just political action. More

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