Gimme the Loot News

While we wait for various summer movie series to begin, Austin still has lots of interesting alternative film choices this week.

Gimme the Loot doesn't do any wonders for New York City tourism; in fact, it may convince people who assume the city to be a festering cesspool of crime they were right to never set foot there.

Director Adam Leon's debut feature Gimme the Loot is what I so often want small, low budget indie films to be - and they so rarely are.

A big winner at last year's SXSW , Gimme the Loot is a pocket-size Bronx indie with the wispiest of narrative ideas: A couple of teen graffiti bombers decide to gain fame by tagging the Mets' Home Run Apple.

The indie A'Gimme the Loot,A' featuring Tashiana Washington, left, and Ty Hickson, opens Friday at the Osio Cinema in Monterey.

Rather more lively than most low-budget independent mumblecore movies, Adam Leon's promising debut has a storyline that follows two foul-mouthed teenage African-American graffiti artists, Malcolm and Sofia, around New York for two hot summer days.

Shot on the streets of New York in a loose, freeform style, this lively comedy-drama feels somewhat underdeveloped, leaving us doubtful about its realism.

A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

Pedro Almodvar's airborne comedy; smart young director Adam Leon's shaggy Bronx movie; a sentimental simian documentary; and more Beware of film-makers who labour to explain their own films.

There is something crushingly genuine about Gimme the Loot . In part, it's the playful simplicity of the plot: Two Bronx teens try to rise to graffiti infamy by tagging a giant plastic apple that pops from the stands every time the Mets hit a home run, a feat that graffiti artists have attempted and failed to achieve for 20 years.

Director Mike Leigh, who begins shooting his film about the artist JMW Turner next month.

"[In] Jeff Nichols's richly observed coming-of-age fable, McConaughey injects a note of danger into a bayou noir story of youthful adA venA ture that manages to be lyrical and sobering at the same time." - Ann Hornaday " The Big Wedding " "Sadly, superior talent can propel a movie only so far.