Snipes

Though hardly Antonioni and entirely too long, this hip-hop driven reworking of BLOW-UP, written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Rich Murray, boasts spunk, imagination and a strong performance from Smallville's very talented Sam Jones III. Seventeen-year-old Erik Triggs (Jones) is what's known in the record business as a "sniper," a foot soldier in the industry's guerrilla marketing army, drafted to surreptitiously plaster promotional posters for upcoming releases all over the city. Erik works at Ill Wax, the hip-hop label owned and operated by the shady Bobby Starr (Dean Winters), and he's one of the most audacious snipers in Philadelphia; Erik e...