Tag: The Lovely Bones

Blake’s 2010 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture and More!

Posted: March 7, 2010 at 1:12 pm   /   Film, Local, Opinion

Best Picture “Avatar” “The Blind Side” “District 9” “An Education” “The Hurt Locker” “Inglourious Basterds” “Precious” “A Serious Man” “Up” “Up in the Air” Who will win? The Hurt Locker. Who should win? The Hurt Locker. Everyone knows that this is a race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker. At one point at the end […]

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Best Supporting Actor Nominatons – Stanely Tucci “The Lovely Bones” – 2010 Academy Awards

Posted: March 7, 2010 at 2:41 am   /   Film, Local

Stanley Tucci has had his ups and downs this year, he enjoyed critical favored roles in both The Lovely Bones and Julie & Julia. Although, not all has been good for the versatile actor, whose wife died last April after a fight with breast cancer. Tucci plays the main villain in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of […]

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List of 2010 BAFTA Award Winners

Posted: February 21, 2010 at 5:41 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Once again The Hurt Locker claims the top prize, which ones again shows it is the favorite going into the Oscar race. Here is a full list of nominees and winners from the 2010 BAFTAs (winners are in bold): BEST FILM AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau AN EDUCATION – Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey THE […]

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The Lovely Bones – Movie Review

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 8:41 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Based on the runaway bestselling novel, The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year old girl murdered in the early ‘70s.  Susie narrates her story from beyond the grave, not as a ghost story per se, but as an ethereal onlooker; trapped between this life and the next in a […]

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The Lovely Bones

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 12:01 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Peter Jackson’s latest adaptation is visually stunning but feels like a cliff notes version of the novel and on its own right doesn’t go deep enough into these characters relationships and feelings to connect us as emotionally as possible with the rich material. The story follows the path of Susie Salmon a 14 year old […]

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Win Passes to “The Lovely Bones” at the St. Louis Advance Screening

Posted: January 7, 2010 at 12:11 pm   /   Contests, Local

ReviewSTL invites you to enter to win passes to the St. Louis advance screening of “The Lovely Bones” Enter for your chance to win a pass good for two! OPENS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY, JANUARY 15TH Synopsis: Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family — and her killer — from heaven. […]

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‘Hobbit’ begins casting this week!

Posted: December 8, 2009 at 12:49 pm   /   Book Reviews, Local, Movie News

I’m sure the wait is killing many of you. It is hard to believe it has been six years since the last Tolkien film. I had fully expected The Hobbit to be rolling into theaters by this time. Although lawsuits and busy directors have set it back. So, unfortunately we have another couple years to […]

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Mark Wahlberg talks a possible ‘Entourage’ film

Posted: December 4, 2009 at 5:34 pm   /   Local, Movie News, Television

I’m really on the fence about this. Entourage is one of my guilty pleasures. I can’t find a reason why I like it, but I do. The storylines are a bit contrived, and the constant stream of guest stars was great at first, but some of them have been plain awful. Not to mention the […]

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The Lovely Bones – HD Trailer

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 12:03 pm   /   Local, Movie Trailers

Well, here is Peter Jackson’s next project finally coming to fruition. It centers around the murder of a young girl who is caught in between this world and the next as she watches her family struggle with her death and their quest to find her murderer. It based on the Oprah book of the month […]

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