Restaurant Review – The Melting Pot
‘Tis the Season for Family, Friends and Fondue! The Melting Pot is one of my favorite restaurants to visit for celebrations of all sorts! I recently visited to celebrate my birthday, and The Melting Pot lived up to all my previous expectations. With two locations in St. Louis – Town & Country and the Loop, there’s a […]
Brothers – Movie Review
Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal play brothers in the aptly titled new film Brothers. They are, respectively, Sam and Tommy Cahill. The brothers, as cinematic siblings tend to be, are polar opposites. Sam is an upstanding overachieving military man with a wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and two daughters. Tommy is an ex-con fresh out of […]
Armored
Ty (Columbus Short), a rookie armored truck security guard, reluctantly accepts an offer from his fellow guards to rob their trucks of $42 million. Everything goes 100% according to plan and everyone lives happily ever after. Ok, maybe the last part was wrong. I believe nothing went right and a whole slew of problems ensued. […]
Brothers
If you are going to see “Brothers” because you want to see a movie full of happiness around the holidays, you are looking in the wrong place. With that being said, the film is one which is full of actuality and truthfulness. The movie tells the story of more things that are going on in […]
Hunger
Steve McQueen’s directorial debut is a triumphant first picture that has such sure of itself directing and acting it is a great start to a promising career told through a remarkable tale of political sacrifice. The film is based on events surrounding the hunger strike of Bobby Sands in protest of Ireland’s ongoing struggles with […]
Christmas Deals – DVDs and Blu-Rays
We here at ReviewSTL love a good deal. Both Kevin and I’s DVD collections are bursting at the seams. Luckily this time of year everyone is slashing their prices on DVDs and Blu-Rays. Here are some of the deals that Amazon.com has to offer this Black Friday. If you went out today hope you had […]
Old Dogs
It isn’t very often I go see a film and can’t find a single redeeming quality about a film. I’ve seen some stinkers this year, but none of them top the sheer stupidity of Old Dogs. When you first glance at Old Dogs you might think, “Oh, Robin Williams and John Travolta in a comedy […]
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson returns to the screen with a film that fits into his little world only this time with a bunch of talking animals from the wonderful fable by Roald Dahl. Mr. Fox was always a daring individual, and stole live stock for a living before he met Mrs. Fox and was planning on having […]