Tag: Brad Pitt

Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt

Posted: July 25, 2019 at 6:56 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews, Reviews

Quentin Tarantino has went and done it again. The director has created yet another masterpiece with his new film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt steal the show as longtime friends. DiCaprio is a longtime Western film actor who is struggling with the fact that his best acting days may […]

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64: ‘Fury’ Starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman

Posted: October 23, 2014 at 2:43 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

This week we take on Fury the latest from Brad Pitt. Set in the waning days of World War II, Pitt leads a battle-hardened tank crew (plus one newbie) into battle with a gritty take on “The Great War”. Great discussion abounds as we talk about the amoral depiction of U.S. soldiers, some of the […]

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Movie Review: ’12 Years a Slave’ Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o, and Michael Fassbender

Posted: November 1, 2013 at 8:24 am   /   Film, Local, Movie Reviews

It’s hard to pin Best Picture frontrunners at this point in the year.  The end of the year bonanza of films is sure to throw a wrench into the awards plans of some of the superb films of early 2013, but it’s hard to imagine that 12 Years a Slave won’t be in contention. Director […]

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2: ‘World War Z’ Starring Brad Pitt – Production Problems and Alternate Ending

Posted: July 1, 2013 at 7:26 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

Brad Pitt’s notoriously troubled production, World War Z, finally hit theaters a couple of weeks ago. Problems between Pitt and the director, Marc Forster, along with an out of control budget and extensive re-shoots all made the film look like a disaster. But luckily things turned out alright, as the film opened with a $66.4 […]

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6 Movies That Were Made to Launch Franchises, In Honor of ‘World War Z’ Starring Brad Pitt

Posted: June 22, 2013 at 9:56 am   /   Film, Local

World War Z opens this weekend. It’s a movie that Brad Pitt desperately hopes to turn into a franchise. It was notoriously troubled production and while it might not quite reach the heights that they hoped for it fares way better than any movie that came in $50 million over budget has any right to. […]

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Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ Starring Brad Pitt

Posted: June 21, 2013 at 9:54 am   /   Featured, Film, Local, Movie Reviews

Vampires, werewolves, zombies. These classic horror subjects, which used to primarily appeal to hardcore fans of the genre, have become mainstream in today’s world of movies and television. Romero’s classic zombie movies used to be the thing of cult classics and horror buffs, but with 28 Days (2000) and Zack Snyder’s remake of Dawn of […]

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Brad Pitt Stars in Adaptation of Max Brooks’ ‘World War Z’ (Review)

Posted: June 21, 2013 at 9:34 am   /   Books, Featured, Local, Movie News

After long delay, I write my first review in months. Competing against a weekend with my favorite superhero Superman and seeing Man of Steel twice last week, “World War Z” was a rough sell in my book. However, I really wanted to see this film as soon as possible. I am a HUGE zombie fan […]

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Movie Review: ‘Happy Feet Two’ Starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 9:20 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Going into a film like Happy Feet Two, you pretty much know what you can expect. It is not uncommon for sequels to kid’s animated movies to be lackluster in comparison to their predecessors, and in this case that is exactly what this film does. When a movie about singing and dancing penguins doesn’t have […]

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HAPPY FEET TWO Opens Friday, November 18th!‏ Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 11:01 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a family 4-pack of passes! Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. […]

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Review: ‘Moneyball’ Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 1:10 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Easily one of the strongest films so far this year, Moneyball tells the story (based on actual events) of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), General Manager of the perennially underfunded Oakland A’s. When Beane finds his team poached of its best players at the end of the 2001 season, he decides to take a radically different […]

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