2011

SXSW 2011 is underway and contributor George Hickman is filing his reports each day as the festival and its several world premiere movie events and panels continue. In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut feature “Moon,” a film that dragged science fiction kicking and screaming back into the […]

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KTKA film critic Eric Melin reviews Love and Other Drugs and Four Lions on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Our intrepid Austin, TX freelancer George Hickman is at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival for the next week and will be providing us with daily content. One film I thought looked interesting is Sebastian Gutierrez’s GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR. The movie stars Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett, Rosario Dawson, and Robert […]

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Eric Melin’s review of the new movie “Red Riding Hood” from KTKA-49.

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Movie review of “Family Instinct” : a shocking, emotionally intense work directed by Andris Gauja.

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Usually the goal of Insomniac Movie Theater is to highlight an established cult classic or classic train wreck through the lens of exhaustion and all of the fun side effects that come with it (halucinations, iritability, etc.), but this week’s entry is a little different. Rather than write about an established failure or a little-known, […]

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Topher Grace is interviewed by Scene-Stealers editor Eric Melin about “Take Me Home Tonight”

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Beyond the fairly funny opening sketch where hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway go into Alec Baldwin’s dreams “Inception”-style, and another pre-taped segment of auto-tuned 2010 movies, this year’s Academy Awards were pretty lackluster. Thank God Hollywood legend and 94-year-old stroke survivor Kirk Douglas was on hand to lend the hosts a hand and bring […]

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Movie Review: Hall Pass

by Eric Melin on February 25, 2011

in Video Reviews

Review of the new Farrelly brothers comedy “Hall Pass” with Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis.

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The 83rd Academy Awards are this Sunday evening and in the running for the night’s top awards are some of the best performances of the year. The acting categories are particularly strong this year, and if you want to be prepared to make predictions in your office Oscar pool, there are some performances you need […]

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Do you like free movie schwag? We sure do and we’ll have plenty of it to give away this Sunday night at the Crosstown Station in Kansas City for the people who predict the most winners in this year’s event. Scene-Stealers is sponsoring the 2011 Oscar Watch Party Potluck Sunday night February 27 at 6pm. […]

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“Cedar Rapids” (2011) straddles the line between vulgarity and sweetness—often times in the same moment. Ed Helms stars as a wide-eyed insurance agent from Wisconsin who graduates to the big leagues when he attends a national conference in an Iowa hotel.

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Movie Review: Unknown

by Alan Rapp on February 18, 2011

in Print Reviews

Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, a scientist from the United States who arrives in Germany with his wife (January Jones) for a medical conference, only to find his very life stolen from him in the space of four days. After a car accident leaves him in a coma, Martin awakes days later to […]

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Sunday Feb. 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm the Red Carpet entrances start at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards… And that’s the time that we begin the festivities at Kansas City’s Crosstown Station for the Scene-Stealers Oscars Watch Party! Scene-Stealers editor-in-chief Eric Melin (that’s me) will be co-hosting with Matt Larson and a panel of special […]

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Despite being too young to even remember the 80s, I have to admit to feeling nostalgic about it a lot of the time. Cinematically, there wasn’t a lot going on, but its seemingly inexhaustible supply of “One man, one mission,” forgettable action movies is something I occasionally long for nowadays, if only because we never […]

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