Tag: chris rock

Grown Ups

Posted: June 25, 2010 at 7:17 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Grown Ups tells the story of five friends who were inseparable growing up, but have drifted apart over the years. Unfortunately, it feels more like an SNL cast member reunion show than a solid film, and lacks any serious focus. The film opens with a flashback of a championship grade school basketball game. The team […]

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GROWN UPS Opens June 25! Win FREE Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screenings!

Posted: June 21, 2010 at 7:06 am   /   Film, Local, Movie Screenings

GROWN UP Opens Nationwide June 25 Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house […]

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“Grown Ups” HD Movie Trailer – Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade

Posted: June 6, 2010 at 3:36 pm   /   Local, Movie Trailers

‘ Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing […]

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Roger Qbert Reviews “Death at a Funeral” starring Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 8:37 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence head up an all-star cast in Death at a Funeral. Rock and Lawrence play Aaron and Ryan, squabbling brothers whose father has just died. Aaron has spent the days since his father’s passing planning (and bankrolling) the elaborate funeral and he is frustrated with his brother, a celebrity author, popping […]

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Death at a Funeral

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 2:59 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This new version of Death at a Funeral changes little from its British forbearer while still delivering the big laughs and hitting all the big notes it just drags a bit at times and rarely finds a consistent stride. The premise is simple, a family comes together for the main character’s father’s funeral and many […]

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Win FREE Passes to “Death at a Funeral” at the St. Louis Advance Screening

Posted: April 12, 2010 at 10:07 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

ReviewSTL invites you to enter to win passes to the St. Louis advance screening of “Death at a Funeral” Enter for your chance to win a pass good for two! Synopsis: A day in the life of an American family who come together to put a beloved husband and father to rest. As mourners gather […]

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Get Your Own Personal Eulogy From Chris Rock – Death at a Funeral is Coming Soon!

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 3:19 pm   /   Film, Local

Ever want to have your own personal eulogy read by none other than famous comedian and actor Chris Rock!? If you have, it’s your lucky day! Check out the new site dielaughingnow.com – in honor of Rock’s new movie, “Death at a Funeral.” At the site, you can customize your own personal eulogy for friends […]

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Chris Rock Remaking France’s ‘First Star’

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 2:25 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Chris Rock has caught a little flack for remaking 2007’s Death at a Funeral, since the original is only a couple years old, and was critically very well received.  No one could really understand why anyone would want to remake a film so new already in English. At least this remake that he is planning […]

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‘Grown Ups’ Teaser Trailer starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James, and Rob Schneider

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 2:31 pm   /   Local, Movie News

This feels like an early 90s reunion of SNL, with the exception of Kevin James. It is hard to believe that Rock and Sandler once worked together on the popular sketch show, and even harder to believe they were let go. Now, both Rock and Sandler are two of the biggest names in comedy. Spade […]

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Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” Trailer

Posted: October 10, 2009 at 9:09 pm   /   Local, Movie Trailers

  When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head. Rock visits hair […]

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