Tag: Chris Cooper

LIVE BY NIGHT opens Friday, January 13! Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: January 3, 2017 at 4:39 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to receive a pass for two to a special advance screening! “Live by Night” is set in the roaring ’20s, when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and […]

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Review: The Muppets (2011) Starring Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 11:42 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

In 2008 Jason Segel was fresh off the success of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. As both the writer and star of the film he was being courted by numerous studios when he took a meeting with Disney. Upon offering him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted Disney execs were stunned when he immediately began pitching […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Muppets’ Starring Jason Segal, Amy Adams, Kermit the Frog

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 5:54 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Growing up, who didn’t watch the Muppets? For half a century, Jim Henson’s creations filled our living rooms with joy and laughter – but recently ceased to exist.  Fortunately for us, enough time has passed where it seemed fit for a revival. And even better, it was executed perfectly. MANAMANA. Walter (Peter Linz) and Gary (Jason Segel) […]

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THE MUPPETS‏ Opens November 23! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Company Men

Posted: January 29, 2011 at 2:16 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

The Company Men is a fine little drama that rings very true and features a bevy of fine performances that help elevate this modern tale of job loss despair. Our story follows Bobby Walker who is a rising future executive type at GTX, a transportation company that gets laid off when the recession kicks into […]

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Jason Segel’s “The Muppets” Gets More Star Studded With Additions of Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis and more!

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 1:25 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Jason Segal’s new Muppet movie sure is becoming quite the Hollywood affair.  The film, which hits theaters Christmas 2011, has just added the all star caliber silver screen comedians, Jack Black and Zach Galifianakis. This is an addition to the recent news that Alan Arkin, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Billy Crystal will be appearing in […]

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New Images from Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest”

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 4:20 pm   /   Local, Movie News

One thing that you can almost take for granted with a Julie Taymor film is that the visuals will be stunning. Both Frida and Across the Universe had stunning visuals, with clear and bright cinematography. It looks as if her next film based upon the William Shakespeare play, The Tempest, is going to be cut […]

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The Town

Posted: September 17, 2010 at 2:51 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

In the past decade Ben Affleck went from being an on the rise A-lister, only to see his stock fall with a quick succession of films that included Daredevil, Jersey Girl, and most infamous of all, Gigli.  His high profile relationship with Jennifer Lopez seemed to doom him, while the meteoric rise continued for best […]

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Another Take By Zac: “The Town”

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 11:55 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

Ben Affleck’s second directorial effort is as strong as his first, Gone Baby Gone, and is a very good crime/bank robbery movie that is tough to complain about. The film follows Doug MacRay, a bank robber, and his team as they run through a series of jobs which lead to Doug wanting to finally get […]

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Aarti Reviews “The Town,” Starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 11:16 pm   /   Film, Local

The Town is Ben Affleck’s second effort as a director, and I think I may like him better directing than acting.   The Town is a story of four friends from Charlestown who are bank robbers.  Affleck is Doug MacRay, the lead in the movie, and the leader of the robbers.  His best friend, James […]

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