Tag: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Steve Kelley Reviews “Moneyball” Starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 1:32 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

“It’s hard not to romanticize baseball.” Anyone who’s played baseball and/or has a passion for the game can understand the sentiment voiced by Billy Beane in Moneyball. Other films such as Field of Dreams have done so with tremendous success. Moneyball, on the other hand, doesn’t do so. Based on the novel by Michael Lewis, the […]

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MONEYBALL Opens September 23! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: September 12, 2011 at 8:51 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Based on the true story of Billy Beane – once a would-be baseball superstar who turned his fiercely competitive nature to management. STARRING: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Pratt, Kathryn Morris, Tammy Blanchard, Glenn Morshower DIRECTED BY: Bennett Miller […]

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‘The Ides of March’ Trailer Starring George Clooney, Ryan Gossling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 2:01 pm   /   Coming Soon, Local, Movie Trailers

Synopsis: An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon. It stars George Clooney, Ryan Gossling, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Max Minghella, Jefferey Wright Director: George Clooney Genre: Drama […]

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Jack Goes Boating

Posted: October 1, 2010 at 1:48 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Jack Goes Boating is Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, and is based on a play of the same name by Robert Glaudini who also did the screenwriting duties for the film. The film follows Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a single overweight New York limo driver who lives in his uncle’s basement, as […]

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PTA Lining Up Next With Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted: December 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Variety is reporting that Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) is close to turning in his new script which will be a religiously fueled affair: “a period drama to star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s…The drama does not so much scrutinize self-started […]

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Enter to Win Passes to ‘PIRATE RADIO’ at the St. Louis Advance Screening

Posted: November 4, 2009 at 10:29 am   /   Contests, Local

ReviewSTL invites you to enter to win passes to the St. Louis advance screening of “Pirate Radio” Enter for your chance to win a pass good for two! OPENS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH Synopsis: In the 1960s a group of 8 rogue DJs on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock […]

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PIRATE RADIO looks amazing! Watch the latest trailer in HD

Posted: October 3, 2009 at 7:42 pm   /   Local, Movie News

    Pirate Radio Running Time: 2 hrs. 14 min. Release Date: November 13, 2009 MPAA Rating: R for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh Directed by: Richard Curtis Formerly market as “The Boat That Rocks,” PIRATE RADIO looks like […]

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The Savages

Posted: January 20, 2008 at 5:53 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This wonderful little film from Tamara Jenkins is a look at the guilt that surroundings putting a loved one in a nursing home surrounding a couple of characters that are right out of a Wes Anderson/Noah Baumbach film. While the sister/brother combo in this film isn’t as eccentric as some of the characters in those […]

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Charlie Wilson’s War

Posted: December 27, 2007 at 8:45 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Mike Nichols new film is a great piece of history through film with a story that few people probably have heard of or know much about in the first place.Tom Hanks stars as the title character; a congressman from a small district in Texas that you would think didn’t have much power, but has a […]

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Before the Devil Knows Your Dead

Posted: December 3, 2007 at 9:31 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews

Sidney Lumet’s new film is an interesting take on the crime drama, by taking a small simple crime and examining the consequences of what can happen if everything went wrong. The movie is a very intimate look into the lives of everyone involved and can be even more intimate than most crime films due to […]

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