Tag: Disney

Movie Review: ‘Maleficent’ Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning

Posted: May 30, 2014 at 9:03 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Perspective is a powerful tool. Oftentimes marred by a person’s opinion or emotions, differing perspectives can be deleterious. The inability to maintain the same interpretation of events or words can pit former allies against each other and bring down powerful entities. On the other hand, being able to view the world from another person’s point […]

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Marvel Begins Search for “Dr. Strange” Director

Posted: February 20, 2014 at 11:49 pm   /   Comic Books, Film, Local

There’s been all kinds of Marvel movie in the last week.  With the release of the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer coupled with the announcement of  the cast for the Fantastic Four reboot, one must ask, what else  could Marvel Films have up their sleeves?  Why not start pre-production work on the long talked about Dr. […]

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Movie Review: Disney’s FROZEN Starring Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad

Posted: November 27, 2013 at 1:46 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Disney returns to true form with Frozen, a story inspired by The Snow Queen (1845) by Hans Christian Andersen. Where recent films have felt like something was missing, longing for a new classic to put next to the likes of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, the film rediscovers the Disney magic […]

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Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Arrives Tonight at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis (Nov. 1 – 3)

Posted: November 1, 2013 at 12:56 pm   /   Live Theater, Local, St. Louis Events

This weekend only, the award-winning Broadway musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast returns to the Fabulous Fox! The limited engagement is a part of the 2013-2014 U.S. Bank Broadway Series. Opening night (Nov. 1) is also “Kids Night at the Fox,” which means a free childs’ ticket is available with the purchase of each adult […]

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Movie Review: Disney’s ‘The Lone Ranger’ Starring Johhny Depp, Armie Hammer

Posted: July 3, 2013 at 9:11 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer try to capture the same magic of 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, with a fresh take on a classic character – The Lone Ranger. Unfortunately we have seen what has happened to the swashbuckling franchise after three mediocre sequels, each one worse than […]

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Movie Review: Disney-Pixar’s ‘Monsters University’ Starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman

Posted: June 21, 2013 at 8:51 am   /   Featured, Film, Local, Movie Reviews

It has been nearly 12 years since Monsters Inc. hit theaters. It was only Pixar’s fourth film, following the first and second Toy Story movie, as well as A Bugs Life. Although Pixar didn’t seem fond sequels at first, with Cars 2 being the only exception to the rule, we are getting a Finding Nemo […]

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Disney-Pixar’s MONSTERS UNIVERSITY World Premiere Tailgate Party at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood

Posted: June 19, 2013 at 6:07 am   /   Film, Local

It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly 12 years since Monsters Inc. hit theaters. It was only Pixar’s fourth feature, releasing fresh off the success of Toy Story 2. By that time the young company had already made a name for itself, and it seemed they could do no wrong. It scored a […]

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Disney-Pixar’s ‘Monsters University’ Opens June 21! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 11, 2013 at 3:04 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Invites you to enter for your chance to win a family four pack of passes to a 3D advance “screaming” of Disney*Pixar’s MONSTERS UNIVERSITY! Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. Monsters University […]

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‘Finding Dory,’ Sequel to ‘Finding Nemo’ Announced by Disney-Pixar for 2015

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 12:14 pm   /   Local, Movie News

This week Disney-Pixar announced that they are working on a feature-length sequel to the 2003 Oscar award winning Finding Nemo. The film will not revolve around Nemo and his father Marlin however, but rather their forgetful companion Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres). Director Andrew Stanton returns to direct, this time without co-director Lee Unkrich (Toy […]

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Alternate Versions of Oz, In Honor of Disney’s ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 6:03 pm   /   Film, Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews, Top Original Content

Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful hits theaters today. The film serves as a prequel (of sorts) the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz. I say “of sorts” because Warner Brothers currently holds the rights to the film but not the books (which are in the public domain). As blasphemous as tinkering with a legendary […]

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