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“TRON: Legacy” Opens DECEMBER 17! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

TRON: LEGACY OPENS DECEMBER 17 NATIONWIDE. Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: “TRON: Legacy” is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father […]

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Movie Review: Disney’s “Tangled” Starring Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Brad Garrett

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 9:23 am   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Don’t let the title fool you. Tangled is really Rapunzel in “tween-boy targeted” clothing. The film marks, with surprisingly little fanfare I might add, Disney Studio’s 50th animated feature. Mandy Moore stars as our formerly-titular hero while Zachary Levi plays Flynn Ryder, a charming ne’re-do-well who stumbles upon the tower in which she’s been imprisoned […]

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The Hidden Gem – “Anastasia”

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 12:42 pm   /   Film, Local

This week’s film that is featured will forever be ingrained in my memory forever. First, I love the film, and second, for the story I’m about to tell you. When I was in fourth grade, I was unpopular (which isn’t really a surprise since I was a movie nerd then). I was sitting at the […]

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Guillermo del Toro Attached to Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion” Reboot

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 4:28 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Anyone who remembers 2003’s The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy would question Disney’s sanity in wanting to reboot the attempted series so soon.  Although, things look a lot less bleak when you take in account that Disney has signed on Pan’s Labyrinth mastermind Guillermo del Toro to produce and write the new film. In a […]

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Alice in Wonderland – Movie Review

Posted: March 5, 2010 at 7:00 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

Walt Disney once famously said, “I hope we never lose sight of one thing.  That it all started with a mouse.”  While that’s a great quote, truth be told it all started with The Alice Comedies, the Disney clan’s first commercially successful foray into the world of animation.  Walt Disney (and the relatively unsung Ub […]

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Walt and El Grupo

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 1:03 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

There has always been an American fascination with Walt Disney and his creations. However, few people know that Disney along with a hand picked group of animators, film makers, and businessmen were part of the U.S. State Department program, Good Neighbor policy. This documentary is the story about Disney and his group, dubbed ‘El Grupo’, […]

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Walt Disney and Robert Zemeckis Will Remake Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine”

Posted: September 12, 2009 at 6:30 am   /   Local, Movie News

It was announced yesterday afternoon at the D23 Expo that Walt Disney Studios will be working with director Robert Zemeckis to create a remake of the 1968 Beatles film “Yellow Submarine.” Zemeckis, the director of Disney’s upcoming “A Christmas Carol” coming out this November said, “’Yellow Submarine’ is one of the greatest fantasy films of […]

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Watch the “TRON LEGACY” HD Trailer from Comic-Con 2009

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 9:48 am   /   Local, Movie News

Check out the new HD footage of “TRON LEGACY,” the sequel to the Disney classic. Attendees of this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego were able to get the first glimpse at the footage. In the movie… Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into […]

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Willem Dafoe Casted in Andrew Stanton’s JOHN CARTER OF MARS

Posted: July 16, 2009 at 7:02 am   /   Local, Movie News

Willem Dafoe has been cast in the upcoming Walt Disney film JOHN CARTER OF MARS, directed by none other than Andrew Stanton – the director of Wall-E. The character that Dafoe is playing is a martian named Tars Tarkas, who is out of place in his warrior race, due to his unusual affinity for love. […]

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Walt Disney Steps Up To The Plate With MLB

Posted: April 22, 2009 at 4:26 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Major League Baseball is teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures to give away free tickets to see “G-FORCE.” The first one million fans to enter the sweepstakes will win the tickets if a grand slam is hit during the MLB® All-Star Game. “G-FORCE,” is the newest 3-D animated adventure from Walt Disney […]

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