Review: PARIS IS IN HARLEM (Slamdance Film Festival)
There is a lot to unpeel in Christina Kallas’ Paris Is in Harlem. Screening as part of the 2022 Slamdance Film festival, this emotionally powerful and crisply paced film uses the cultural tapestry of Harlem as the backdrop for exploring multiculturalism. Structured like a jazz composition this fine example of socially conscious cinema piles layers […]
Theatre Review: THE PROM Has Audiences Dancing at The Fabulous Fox
Being a kid is tough enough with trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do with the rest of your life. Throw in your peers looking at you differently, and a closed-minded community that wants to stop a person from just being themselves, and navigating high school just got even […]
Photos: Royal Rumble at The Dome at America’s Center
WWE brought the Royal Rumble to St. Louis on Saturday, January 29. The event featured a men’s and women’s 30-competitor rumble. Brock Lesnar won the men’s, while Ronda Rousey won the women’s. Roman Reigns, Randy Orton, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch were also on the card.
Photos: Smackdown in Kansas City
On Friday night, ReviewSTL headed up I-70 to Kansas City to check out WWE Smackdown at T-Mobile Arena. Stars such as Charlotte Flair, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Sasha Banks appeared. The main event featured a six-man tag match with Reigns and The Usos against Rollins and The Viking Raiders. Check out all the photos.
Review: The St. Louis Symphony and John Adams Save the Best for First
Although he cut his teeth in the minimalist traditions of Steve Reich and John Cage, John Adams has established himself as an American composer whose genre-bending classical pieces and operas (Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic) have made him the country’s most prolific composer. Creating a body of work rooted in language […]
Interview: Fortune Feimster
The funny and fabulous Fortune Feimster is returning to St. Louis this Friday, January 28th at The Factory. Before her show, Fortune spoke with ReviewSTL discussing her upcoming standup event. After the tour had been postponed, Feimster is excited to be back on the road again. With all brand new material and a whole new […]
Review: ‘Scream,’ starring Neve Campbell, Melissa Barrera
Many horror-movie fans, including myself, consider Wes Craven to be one of the greatest horror directors of all-time and rightfully so. With a catalog consisting of Last House on the Left, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and Scream are just a few of his masterpieces. After Craven passed away, I figured the […]
Interview: Vinnie Dombroski, Lead Singer of ’90s Alt-Rock Band Sponge
Sponge has been a fixture on the alternative rock music scene since 1992. The Detroit-based band is led by front man Vinnie Dombroski. Sponge burst onto the scene with the debut-album ‘Rotting Pinata,’ a record that sold over 1 million copies. The band followed up ‘Pinata’ with ‘Wax Ecstatic,’ a darker and harder hitting effort […]
Review: THE 355 Starring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz
Writer-director Simon Kinberg follows up his feature directorial debut (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) with a star-studded, yet sloppily-executed spy/thriller that never quite delivers on its potential. CIA agents “Mace” Brown (Jessica Chastain) and Nick Fowler (Sebastian Stan) are working to track down a weapon that can control any type of technology – a dangerous McGuffin in […]
Movie Review: ‘American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story’
I can vividly remember sitting at the TWA Dome for the first preseason game of the 1999 St. Louis Rams season. So much hype around a team that had been lousy for so long. We had Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Orlando Pace to go along with a cast of solid players. All were […]
