Tag: catherine keener

BEGIN AGAIN opens July 2! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 17, 2014 at 10:52 am   /   Film, Local

Enter for your chance to receive a pair of passes to a special advance screening! The latest film from writer-director John Carney (ONCE), BEGIN AGAIN is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful music together. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and […]

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‘Captain Phillips’ opens October 11! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: October 1, 2013 at 10:36 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pass for two! Columbia Pictures’ action-thriller Captain Phillips stars two-time Oscar® winner Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. The film is directed […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Croods’ Starring Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Nicolas Cage

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 12:56 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

How to Train Your Dragon‘s co-director and writer Chris Sanders is back in the director’s seat for Dreamworks’ latest animated feature – The Croods. He is joined by Kirk De Micco to tell the story of the first prehistoric family, and their struggle to adapt in the rapidly evolving world around them. Eep (Emma Stone) […]

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‘The Croods’ Opens March 22! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 1:30 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a family 4-pack of passes! The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled […]

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Movie Review: ‘A Late Quartet’ Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener

Posted: November 30, 2012 at 8:11 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Synopsis: When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life-changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond […]

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‘A Late Quartet’ is Now Playing at Landmark Plaza Frontenac. Interview With Director Yaron Zilberman.

Posted: November 28, 2012 at 10:17 am   /   Interviews, Local

Synopsis: When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life-changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond […]

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PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING Opens June 8 in St. Louis! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!

Posted: May 31, 2012 at 3:32 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pair of passes! For uptight Manhattan lawyer Diane, crazy means driving her teenage son Jake and adult daughter Zoe to visit their grandmother Grace. The crazy part is that the kids have never met Grace. In fact, Diane hasn’t spoken to her mother in twenty years. Grace is the epitome of […]

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“Waiting For Superman” and “Winter’s Bone” Big Winners at 2010 Gotham Awards

Posted: November 30, 2010 at 1:57 am   /   Local, Movie News

While they might not have as big of an impact as the Independent Spirit Awards, the 20th Gotham Awards still have a significant stance in the New York and independent film scene.  They are among the first to give out their awards, and many of their winners have gone on to win big from critics […]

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Movie Review

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 8:20 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Heavy is the head that seeks the Harry Potter crown.  So it is for the cumbersomely titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.  With visions of franchise-driven dollar signs dancing in his head Chris Columbus, director of the first two Potter films, attempts to bring another popular “kid lit” fantasy epic to the […]

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 2:24 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Percy Jackson has the unfortunate pleasure of being compared to Harry Potter. The coincidences are many. They are both different takes of the monomyth or the hero’s journey that takes place in so many other stories such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and The Matrix.  Complicating matters for the new Percy Jackson films […]

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