Back Seat Producers

We Don’t Make Movies, But We’ll Let You Know What Is and Isn’t Working in Hollywood.

Back Seat Producers header image 4

Movie Review: 9 Songs

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Remove the live concert footage and the nonessential (I hesitate to call them gratuitous) sex scenes, and 9 Songs ceases to be a movie and becomes a film short.  There’s not a lot of story here.  I can’t even call it a character study, because we barely learn anything about Matt and Lisa, the couple [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: DVD Review · Text Reviews

Theatrical Review: The Informant!

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments

In the early 90s, a transnational corporation ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) was investigated by the FBI into matters of price-fixing around the world (primarily around the use of the amino acid lysine in food production) and all of that came about through one very big whistle-blower by the name of Mark Whitacre, a very big [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Text Reviews · Theatrical Review