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Film Review: ‘Sherlock Gnomes’ Starring James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mary J. Blige, Johnny Depp

Posted: March 23, 2018 at 8:41 am   /   Movie Reviews

This must be the week for unnecessary sequels. Who would have thought the cute 2011 animated feature Gnomeo & Juliet, which tells the story of (you guessed it!) Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet through the lives of garden gnomes, would have ever spawned a sequel seven years later? Certainly not this guy. Sherlock Gnomes is the […]

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Review: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Starring Brenton Thwaites, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem

Posted: May 25, 2017 at 6:29 pm   /   Movie Reviews

If the fifth installment of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series has proven anything, it’s that this dead franchise should tell no more tales. It all should have ended with At World’s End. Back in 2007, the third Pirates movie brought each of its central storylines to a seeming conclusion: multicultural pirates reclaimed the seas […]

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Preview: Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’

Posted: May 12, 2017 at 8:26 am   /   Film

It’s been 14 years since Captain Jack Sparrow dramatically sailed into Port Royal on a sinking dingy, instantly becoming one of the most iconic characters in cinema history and garnering actor Johnny Depp a Best Actor nomination. Three sequels and $3.8 billion later, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is anticipating favorable winds with the […]

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120: ‘Black Mass’ Starring Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton

Posted: September 23, 2015 at 2:01 pm   /   Film, Reel Spoilers

This week we tackle Black Mass starting first and foremost with…why the hell is this thing called Black Mass? We also talk about the career of Johnny Depp, how breast implants helped bring down the Winter Hill Gang and Joe reveals just exactly what used to go on in the backroom of Blockbuster. (Hint: Netflix […]

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119: ‘Black Mass’ Box Office Report (9/18 – 9/20)

Posted: September 22, 2015 at 1:54 pm   /   Film, Reel Spoilers

Kevin and Blake are out this week so Colin Jeffery from KTRS joins us. But fear not! Dan has Kevin’s abacus so we forge ahead. We get some new iTunes reviews to discuss (at long last). We also talk about the new Star Wars re-release (which is actually an old Star Wars re-release), the Heroes […]

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75: ‘Into the Woods’ Starring Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Emily Blunt

Posted: December 30, 2014 at 5:49 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

This week Vic Porcelli joins us in the War Room to discuss Into the Woods. If you live in St. Louis then you probably recognize Vic as a staple of local radio who currently co-hosts the morning show on Fresh 102.5. What you might not know is that Vic is also an Into the Woods […]

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41: ‘Transcendence’ Starring Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall

Posted: April 29, 2014 at 8:49 am   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

This week on the show we back up (and run over) Transcendence. We took a week off for Easter (some of us love Jesus, some of us love candy, some of us love plastic grass). We also touch briefly on The Other Woman and Brick Mansions. Dan is out this week. He failed our weekly […]

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Movie Review: ‘Transcendence’ Starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany

Posted: April 18, 2014 at 7:55 am   /   Film, Local

“Yesterday Dr. Will Caster Was Only Human.” Chronologically, we have The Dark Knight Rises, Moneyball, Inception, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Italian Job, Insomnia, Memento. Those are some very impressive credits. Although Transcendence director wasn’t at the helm for the aforementioned films, he was the cinematographer – and very influential on how […]

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TRANSCENDENCE opens April 18! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: April 8, 2014 at 12:08 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to receive a pair of passes to a special advance screening! Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have […]

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3: ‘The Lone Ranger’ Starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer

Posted: July 8, 2013 at 3:09 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer team up once again with Johnny Depp for The Lone Ranger, in an attempt to capture the magic of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Unfortunately for the $215 million dollar summer blockbuster, lightning didn’t strike twice. The film opened over the five-day holiday weekend with an unimpressive $48.7 […]

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