Is This The Most Fun "Hard-Science" Film You've Been Waiting For?
DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT/2015
Jim Tudor: With NASA essentially grounded, we’re a long, lon...
Plenty Of Shades Of Grey In This French Gender Drama
DIRECTED BY FRANCIOS OZON/FRENCH/2015
It’s tempting to approach a film such as The New Girlfriend by wa...
Great Actor. Great Movies?
Welcome to the special Peter Sellers edition of “Film Admissions”, a regular feature at ZekeFilm where the contributing writers are ...
The Satanic Rites Of Whitey Bulger?
DIRECTED BY SCOTT COOPER/2015
Warner Brothers is a studio long known for its “ripped from the headlines” crime dramas. Whe...
IMAX Provides The Gorgeous Scenery, But Is Everest Worth The Climb?
DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR/2015
JIM TUDOR: Note to self: Do NOT ever set out to climb...
Get To Know Marlon Brando - In His Own Words
DIRECTED BY STEVAN RILEY/2015
Marlon Brando is fraying. A digital image on a screen, emoting a deep run of pain, ...
Scream-maker Dead at 76
This past weekend, not just the horror film community but the popular culture and world proper lost a good one. Many might not associat...
A Screwball Comedy For The Delusional Drifter
DIRECTED BY NOAH BAUMBACH/2015
Ennui, ennui, ennui, ennui, ennui.
A little ennui by itself is, of course, b...
Buckley v. Vidal, 1968: What Hath It Wrought??
DIRECTED BY ROBERT GORDON, MORGAN NEVILLE/2015
Political discourse. We yell, we shout, we take sides. We get ...
Ultra Violent, Yet Ultra Forgettable
DIRECTED BY NIMA NOURIZADEH/2015
We‘ve seen a lot of Americans at the movies in the past decade or so. American Beauty,...
Jim has been reviewing films since 2003 for outlets such as ScreenAnarchy (formerly TwitchFilm, both as Featured Critic), ImagineDat, and KTRS 550 AM. He co-founded ZekeFilm in 2011. He is Director of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, and works as video editor and Art Director for professional film and video productions. He also co-hosts the long-running comedy podcast, The Wonder Show. He is a life-long St. Louisian living with his wife and four children. He loves Star Wars, Queen, and the band Daniel Amos.
