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Book Review: ‘The Red Pyramid’ by Rick Riordan

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 9:00 am   /   Book Reviews, Local

Rick Riordan is an author of young adult novels. He is better known for the Percy Jackson series, which follows a boy and the gods and goddesses of Greek Mythology.  Riordan’s love of mythology has led to two other series: The Heroes of Olympus (which focuses of Greek and Roman mythology) and The Kane Chronicles […]

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“Spider-Man” Casting Rumors False, No Logan Lerman

Posted: March 5, 2010 at 1:58 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Ever since the announcement back in January that Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire would not be back webslinging, the internet has obsessed over who would play the next wisecracking spectacular Spider-man. All kinds of names have been thrown around such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Zac Efron. None has gained more traction than Percy Jackon […]

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“Incarceron” Rights Picked Up By FOX

Posted: March 1, 2010 at 11:09 am   /   Local, Movie News

Ever since the Harry Potter series debuted, studios have been looking for their own cash cow. A series that has a group of sustained users, and the ability to have a huge market draw. The Potter series had all of this in spades, and since it is possibly the biggest book series of the last […]

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“Shutter Island” Lands On Top With $40 Million

Posted: February 21, 2010 at 2:51 pm   /   Local, Movie News

I will be one of the first to admit that I was someone who thought it was a mistake to move Shutter Island from October to February, but it seems to have paid off. The Martin Scorsese psychological thriller came on top on the weekend with an estimated $40.2 million. This marks Leonardo DiCaprio and […]

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“Clash of the Titans” Featurette

Posted: February 19, 2010 at 1:27 pm   /   Local, Movie News

I’ve mentioned it before, but I think that it is funny that within a month of each other there will be two films based in Greek mythological characters, both starring a hero named Perseus. I’ve now seen Percy Jackson, and it wasn’t great, but it was worth watching. I’m hoping that Clash of the Titans […]

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Win Passes to “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” at the St. Louis Advance Screening

Posted: February 4, 2010 at 4:11 pm   /   Contests, Local

ReviewSTL invites you to enter to win passes to the St. Louis advance screening of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” Enter for your chance to win a pass good for two! Synopsis: It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student […]

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“Percy Jackson” Star Logan Lerman In Talks To Play “Spider-Man” Lead Role, Peter Parker

Posted: February 4, 2010 at 4:00 pm   /   Local, Movie News

For those of you who don’t already know Sony and Marvel are going to be rebooting the successful Spider-Man series, and leave the old series to end at the trilogy mark. The new series is said be based around the popular “Ultimate Spider-Man” series, which is an alternate universe version of the popular Spider-man, who […]

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