Theater Around Town “Curtain’s Up Theater Company” is a community theater company that performs shows primarily in Madison County, Collinsville, and Edwardsville. This weekend they bring audiences another excellent show with Fiddler on the Roof showing September 2-5. In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to instill in his five daughters […]
Going into the weekend, I thought The Expendables might be able to hang on to the top spot. I definitely underestimated this weekend’s releases. If estimates hold true, The Last Exorcism barely edged out Takers for the top spot by just $200,000. Both films beat The Expendables pretty easily by about $12 million. Inception actually […]
Tom Cruise has struggled in finding an audience in his past couple of films. You can probably contribute that to his personal hijinks (aka he is nuts), but his last few films, Lions for Lambs, Valkyrie, Knight and Day, did not exactly blow people away. So what’s a man to do? Turn to his most […]
When I first saw the trailer for The Last Exorcism, a film that hits theaters this Friday, I was intrigued. I like the idea, and while it may be on the whole “hand held, documentary style” bandwagon, I think it works for a film like this. By far the best moment in the trailer is […]
There are many great foreign language films that have come out over the years. The films that immediately come to mind are “House of Flying Daggers,” “Let the Right One In” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” just to name a few. But with so many films to come out yearly, it’s easy for films to slip under […]
I went into Nanny McPhee Returns with a negative attitude. I will admit it. I never saw the first one because I thought it looked like a dumb, cheesy kid’s film. So I assumed this would be the same. Secondly, and more importantly, I was under the impression that Emma Thompson had declined to reprise […]
I went into the theater for The Expendables with mixed ideas. I read bad reviews. I read good reviews. I liked certain actors and hated others. I wasn’t really a big fan of the trailers. I thought that it was a film trying to be something that didn’t really exist on the big screen anymore. […]
This week’s film, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, is a film I fell in love with as soon as I saw the trailer. I instantly bought it when it came out and watched it with my brother. I’m not going to lie, the first time I saw it I thought it was […]
This past Tuesday we saw the release of three major studio films and a myriad of other Blu-ray releases. I personally have only seen one of these three so I will try my best to offer up some information on the other two. “Date Night” was a film that I was very excited about. Both […]
This week Scott Pilgrim vs. the World comes out with much excitement and fanboy support. In the movie, there are several obvious nods to the world of video games. It got me thinking about my personal history with video games. As a result, this week’s top five will be my favorite video games growing up […]
