Film Review: ‘Leap!’ Starring Elle Fanning, Nat Wolff, Carly Rae Jepsen
Leap! (known as Ballerina internationally) has made its way to the US market a year later and after several delays, and is the story of Félicie (Elle Fanning), an orphan girl with big dreams of becoming a dancer. Several times, her and her best friend Victor (Nat Wolff) have tried to escape from the orphanage […]
The Beguiled (2017)
[embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_FSRbuZ9Y[/embedyt] The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous […]
LIVE BY NIGHT opens Friday, January 13! Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
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 […]
45: ‘Maleficent’ Starring Angelina Jolie
This week we discuss Maleficent and, since we’re discussing a Disney movie, we brought in a Disney expert – Jim Hill. Jim runs one of the premiere Disney sites on the web – JimHillMedia.com (covering theme parks, films and projects that almost were), a treasure trove of Disney past, present and future with a dash of […]
Movie Review: ‘Maleficent’ Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning
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 […]
MALEFICENT opens May 30! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter for your chance to receive a pair of passes to a special advance screening! From Disney comes “Maleficent”—the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic “Sleeping Beauty.” A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading […]
Angelina Jolie’s “Maleficent” May Have Found Its Sleeping Beauty
You can say the fad beginning. And I don’t like it one bit. Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” made $334 million. Obviously, that kind of number is going to make studios turn their heads and look. So now we have our recent fad of fairy tale stories retold. Currently we have “Grimm” and “Once Upon […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Super 8
Super 8 is a fun and fine looking homage to Spielberg, as is intended. However, I can’t help but feel it could have been more, given a bit better characterization and fully engaging some of its really interesting ideas surrounding the secret of the film. There is no need to get into plot here because […]
Movie Review: SUPER 8 Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler
Over a year ago when I first saw the teaser for SUPER 8, I immediately got a huge grin on my face. I was so excited. I wanted to know why the truck crashed into the train. I wanted to know why the train was traveling across the country. I wanted to know what was […]
“Super 8” Opens June 10! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to […]
