Tag: Olivia Williams

Movie Review: ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ Starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney

Posted: December 14, 2012 at 5:32 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Depending on how you look at it, Hyde Park on Hudson could read as relevant or redundant, so close as its release to the phenomenon of The King’s Speech is. Along with being just as handsomely innocuous as 2010’s Oscar victor, this multi-tonal, 1939-set costume dramedy features Samuel West as the stammering King George VI, […]

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‘Anna Karenina’ Opens November 21 in St. Louis! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 8:41 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pair of passes! The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement,” is a bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s timeless novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Hanna

Posted: April 8, 2011 at 12:05 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Joe Wright’s latest, Hanna, is an assassin picture on the surface but at its heart is a film of self discovery after being trapped in isolation your whole life.  It all works really well, but after one viewing I feel like it is missing that special something to make it incredible. The film is fun, […]

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“Hanna” Opens April 8! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 12:50 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: Raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna’s upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the […]

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The Ghost Writer

Posted: March 5, 2010 at 1:06 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

It is hard to separate Roman Polanski the film director, and Roman Polanski the man of scandal. I want to make it clear first, that I am reviewing one of his movies, and I am not condoning any of his actions. I had many reservations going into to this film due to Mr. Polanski’s crimes, […]

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An Education

Posted: November 9, 2009 at 7:15 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

An Education is one of those little treasures of a film that sneaks up on you in not only the quality of the overall film but by the incredible turn by its star Carey Mulligan. Jenny is a seventeen year old school girl in 1960’s England and is set on getting into Oxford for seemingly […]

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