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Screengrab Review: “Infestation”

It’s a simple question we all have to ask ourselves sooner or later: Am I the sort of person who enjoys a good ol’ fashioned icky-fun movie about giant bugs? Go ahead and ask yourself. I’ll wait here.

Is the answer yes? Good, because that’s exactly what Infestation intends to be, and for the most part, it delivers. Chris Marquette (Fanboys) stars as Cooper, a fun-loving slacker who is about to be fired from his latest dead-end office job when…something happens.

SXSW Review: "My Suicide"

Imagine all the worst case scenarios you might associate with the term "indie film," and you'll find most of them on display in David Lee Miller's intolerable feature My Suicide. Overbearing, in-your-face mixed media visuals? Check. Facile approach to "edgy" subject matter? Check. Record label-approved hipster band soundtrack slathered over every scene? Check. Photogenic young cast sure to meet the approval of The Hills demographic? Check. Any sort of heart or insight or recognizable human behavior? Nowhere to be found.

Screengrab Review: "Sherman's Way"

Functioning like a sitcom variation on last year’s uneven Humboldt County, Craig M. Saavedra’s Sherman’s Way charts the contrived awakenings of two caricatures. New York City native Sherman (Michael Shulman) has no interest spending the summer in California with his girlfriend (Lacey Chabert), since it would get in the way of the choice law internship that he’s nabbed – like everything else in his Yale-educated, Richie-rich life – thanks to his famous lawyer mom (Donna Murphy). Sherman can’t drive, likes to espouse the preeminent importance of money, and carefully pre-plan his every step, making him the type of dreadfully smug, conceited snob that no one – including the out-of-his-league Chabert – would be able to stand for two minutes. Motivated by claims that he’s not spontaneous enough, Sherman ditches his professional gig and heads out West, where he discovers that his girlfriend has a new beau, a situation that leads him to abruptly hitch a ride with Palmer “The Bomber,” (James LeGros), a bearded, aviator sunglasses-wearing former Olympic alpine skier who’s just finished making an ignominious appearance at a car dealership and, upon not being compensated, stolen as payment a ’75 MG roadster.