Movie Review: ‘Suspiria’ Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick
Dancing in the dark. In 2016, I took a class covering the historical and cultural influence of the horror genre in cinema. Among the films showed in said class as examples of the various styles to come forth throughout the evolvement the genre was Suspiria, horror maestro Dario Argento’s 1977 splicing of the Giallo filmmaking […]
Review: ‘Okja’ starring Tilda Swinton, Ahn Seo-hyun, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano
The first great film of 2017 has arrived. Okja is everything a movie should be. The film will make you laugh, cry, and think. For those of you who don’t know about Okja, it’s a new film from Netflix. To think that Netflix could have a film that could contend for an Oscar for Best […]
Movie Review: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Ain’t it grand? Wes Anderson has a toy box. And in this toy box, Anderson has a camera – some might find it frustrating, while others find it magical – that frames almost every scene perfectly symmetrically. Sometimes this camera, from a fixed spot, will rotate left or right 90°, even 180° (and once in […]
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL opens March 21 in St. Louis! Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pass for two! THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustava, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle […]
Movie Review: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Starring Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis
Bottle Rocket. Rushmore. The Royal Tenenbaums. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The Darjeeling Limited. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Writer and director Wes Anderson has made a series of films that are every bit his own. In watching any of these films, it’s easy to see Anderson’s hand crafting the scenes and dialogue. As a result, […]
MOONRISE KINGDOM Opens June 8 in St. Louis! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!
Enter to win a pair of passes! Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent […]
This Week On Blu-Ray / DVD: ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin,’ ‘Gone,’ ‘Man on a Ledge’ and More
We Need To Talk About Kevin – One of the more unsettling flicks I saw last year, “Kevin” makes me never want to have kids. Sure it’s a small percentage chance, but what if your child grows up to despise you and terrorizes you just for the fun of it. The performances are outstanding from […]
Willis, Norton, Murray in Talks to Star in Wes Anderson’s Newest
There is no denying that director Wes Anderson’s films are some of the quirkiest to be released in recent years. While his films may not be for everybody (Fantastic Mr. Fox is the only one I really loved), there is one consistent component of all of his films: star power. Some of the actors he […]
