Review: ‘Game Night’ Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons
A traditional game night is a night in which friends get together and compete in challenging games of luck and skill. Finger foods are picked over throughout the night and adult beverages can be and often are guzzled down. It doesn’t, however, traditionally include someone getting beat up and kidnapped which leads to a night […]
Watch Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Trailer Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
In just over 24 hours, the official trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street has received over 1.2 million hits on YouTube. The film, based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort (the real “Wolf of Wall Street), stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey as stock brokers who have more money than […]
Movie Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ A Triumph
If you’re going to make a movie for which the audience already knows the ending, you damn well better make it a good one. Sounds obvious, right? It’s surprising, though, how many times a film can manage to screw this up. When it’s done right, though, a film whose ending is a foregone conclusion can […]
Movie Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
If you have seen Academy Award-winning best picture The Hurt Locker, you know that Kathryn Bigelow is no stranger to slow-building tension. Somewhere between Point Break and 2008, the Oscar-winning director went from being good to great. And her streak certainly continues with Zero Dark Thirty. Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a young CIA agent who’s […]
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Opens January 11 in St. Louis! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pair of passes! For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar(R) winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt […]
‘Argo’ Opens October 12! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pair of passes! Based on true events, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and GK Films’ dramatic thriller “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis–the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck (“The […]
Scorcese, DiCaprio, Dujardin Team Up For Drama ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
The director of my favorite film of last year is reuniting with my favorite actor of the last decade and is being joined by one of the most charismatic actors to break out in recent years. Let me rewrite that so it may be a little more clear for some people. Martin Scorsese, director of […]
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 […]