The Informers, a Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki script directed by Gregor Jordan, is a weak B-movie. Ellis, writer of the amazing Rules of Attraction failed on this adaptation of his wack book depicting 80’s excess and vampires. A great cast was assembled for this film including Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Jon Foster and Amber Heard but despite great acting performances they could not save me from boredom. Jordan definitely plays up the sex and drugs with lots of nudity, sex, threesomes, pot and blow. The film shows no shame baring everything for the audience, including homoerotic relationships among friends and the onset of the great 80’s culture issues of AIDS and addiction. (more…)

Greg Mottola got his start at the Slamdance Film Festival in 1996, when he won their Grand Jury Prize for his debut film Daytrippers.  Since then, he stuck with television for several years and got to know Judd Apatow during his 3 episode stint as a director for Arrested Development.  He made it big behind the wheels of the Apatow-produced and critically acclaimed raunchy teen-sex comedy blockbuster Superbad.

Now he’s back at the festival that snubbed his first flick, with one of the most anticipated premieres of Sundance 2009: Adventureland, a semi-autobiographical 80’s nostalgia piece about a recent college grad who lands a lame summer job and has the best time of his life.  The film will have its world premiere in Sundance’s massive Eccles theater, January 19th.  At least one of us is sure to see it and let you know what we think — it probably won’t be me, since I usually try to avoid seeing films at Sundance that I know I could see a few months later in the local theaters, and this one definitely fits that bill.  For those who can’t wait, or who want to whet their appetite for our review, take a look at a few of the following clips of the film, freshly picked from the web: (more…)