Pop culture comes to life in St. Louis this weeekend! It’s the Wizard World Comic Con April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at America’s Center downtown (701 Convention Plaza – St. Louis, Mo 63101), and boy oh boy, do they have an amazing line-up of guests!
Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, cosplay, comics, television, sci-fi, toys, video gaming, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. St. Louis show hours are Friday, April 1st, 3-8 p.m.; Saturday, April 2nd, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, April 3rd, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wizard World Comic Con St. Louis is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor...
Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, cosplay, comics, television, sci-fi, toys, video gaming, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. St. Louis show hours are Friday, April 1st, 3-8 p.m.; Saturday, April 2nd, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, April 3rd, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wizard World Comic Con St. Louis is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor...
- 4/1/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
★★★☆☆ When T.S. Eliot consented to an adaptation of his 1935 verse drama Murder in the Cathedral, his vision of the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, he predicted a "very unusual film". He wasn't wrong. George Hoellering's picture is a cold, austere vision, full of linguistic poetry; undeniably stagy but also packing in moral crises that remind of Ingmar Bergman and the Carl Theodor Dreyer. Murder in the Cathedral, despite its incantation-like verse structure, delivers a strangely ethereal quality on screen.
- 12/8/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Dan Jones in The Plantagenets from Acorn Media Rlj Entertainment
By Kieran Kinsella
Heraldic dramas like Game of Thrones and The White Queen serve to whet your appetite but nothing beats a healthy dose of historical skullduggery. Athena deliver just that with the DVD release of Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets.
Long before the house of Windsor burst onto the scene, the Plantagenets sat on the throne of England. French speaking descendants of William the Conqueror, their dynasty lasted for just over three hundred years and spawned some of histories grizzliest scandals. Do you remember Ts Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral when the Archishop of Canterbury was killed by the King’s knights? The King in question was Henry II — a Plantagenet. How about Bad King John of Robin Hood fame? He was a Plantagenet too as was Richard III who achieved notoriety for killing off the young princes in the tower.
By Kieran Kinsella
Heraldic dramas like Game of Thrones and The White Queen serve to whet your appetite but nothing beats a healthy dose of historical skullduggery. Athena deliver just that with the DVD release of Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets.
Long before the house of Windsor burst onto the scene, the Plantagenets sat on the throne of England. French speaking descendants of William the Conqueror, their dynasty lasted for just over three hundred years and spawned some of histories grizzliest scandals. Do you remember Ts Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral when the Archishop of Canterbury was killed by the King’s knights? The King in question was Henry II — a Plantagenet. How about Bad King John of Robin Hood fame? He was a Plantagenet too as was Richard III who achieved notoriety for killing off the young princes in the tower.
- 5/19/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist? The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
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10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
- 11/22/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stage
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
- 10/15/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Matthew Newton's oldest acquaintances have spoken out about his troubled past. The Australian actor and son of entertainers Bert and Patti, who has been in and out of a psychiatric clinic since attacking former girlfriend Rachael Taylor last year, reportedly suffered from anger management issues even as a child. An old schoolmate told the Herald Sun that Matthew lost his temper shortly before going on stage for a production of Murder in the Cathedral in 1993, saying: "I was shaking like a leaf. But when Matthew was nervous or embarrassed his way of coping was to lash out at those around him. He was full of himself - the son of a legend who was not often told 'no'." Another childhood friend remembers Matthew speaking rudely to his mother on regular occasions, saying: "You don't let a 12-year-old speak badly (more)...
- 8/8/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
In the life of a man, never/ The same time returns", said Thomas à Becket in Murder in the Cathedral. But Becket was about 700 years too early for the cinema, where a man may experience the same time returning over and over. You only have to think of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day rushing into a restaurant every night, just in time to smack the heaving back of a man who's started to choke on a bone. His life has been reduced to a sequence of immaculately timed tricks, like a magician's, or a god's.
- 3/31/2011
- The Independent - Film
A profound and immaculately acted movie explores the eternal questions of faith and human strengths and weaknesses
Interestingly, though perhaps not coincidentally, the major prizes at this year's Cannes festival went to two remarkable movies on religious themes, set in politically troubled areas in different parts of the world. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mysterious and mystical Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the Palme d'Or, centres around a Buddhist from war-torn northern Thailand where the government has done battle with local dissidents. He's dying of kidney disease and is prepared for death and the afterlife by the ghost of his long-dead wife.
By contrast, Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men, recipient of the Grand Jury prize, is almost a documentary in style. It's inspired by, indeed is very closely based on, the story of the French Cistercian monks who in 1996 were abducted from their monastery at...
Interestingly, though perhaps not coincidentally, the major prizes at this year's Cannes festival went to two remarkable movies on religious themes, set in politically troubled areas in different parts of the world. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mysterious and mystical Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the Palme d'Or, centres around a Buddhist from war-torn northern Thailand where the government has done battle with local dissidents. He's dying of kidney disease and is prepared for death and the afterlife by the ghost of his long-dead wife.
By contrast, Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men, recipient of the Grand Jury prize, is almost a documentary in style. It's inspired by, indeed is very closely based on, the story of the French Cistercian monks who in 1996 were abducted from their monastery at...
- 12/5/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
It's slow-moving and meditative, but Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois, won the Grand Prix at Cannes, is tipped for an Oscar and has drawn in more than 3 million cinemagoers
Nine monks eat supper around a refectory table. Wordlessly, they sip from unaccustomed glasses of red wine as a cassette player fills the room with the soaring strings of Swan Lake. Some of them weep. They all know they will soon be dead.
This piercingly simple, lengthy scene is at the core of director Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men, a powerful yet reflective French film which is now in strong contention for the title of most unexpected box-office hit ever.
Released in Britain this Friday, it tells the fictionalised story of real-life Cistercian monks who in 1996 held out in their hillside abbey in Algeria, enduring near siege conditions as the country descended into factional violence. The...
Nine monks eat supper around a refectory table. Wordlessly, they sip from unaccustomed glasses of red wine as a cassette player fills the room with the soaring strings of Swan Lake. Some of them weep. They all know they will soon be dead.
This piercingly simple, lengthy scene is at the core of director Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men, a powerful yet reflective French film which is now in strong contention for the title of most unexpected box-office hit ever.
Released in Britain this Friday, it tells the fictionalised story of real-life Cistercian monks who in 1996 held out in their hillside abbey in Algeria, enduring near siege conditions as the country descended into factional violence. The...
- 11/28/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Director and Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan is going from sinners to saints, well one saint, in his latest project. London Boulevard opens in the UK from 26th November but his follow up movie, Becket, is a decidedly more epic and medieval affair.
Thomas Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose murder by four knights of the realm in the cathedral on 29th December, 1170, became one of the greatest scandals in the medieval world. Becket was seen by Henry II as an avaricious, jumped up troublemaker but when he died they found a hairshirt crawling with all kinds of scummy shit proving the man was a bloody saint.
Henry II whose famous quote, “won’t somebody rid me of this troublesome priest”, lived to regret his actions to his dying day. The film, already made into an Oscar-winning adaptation in the early 1960s, is based on Jean Anouilh’s play.
It is a story of friendship,...
Thomas Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose murder by four knights of the realm in the cathedral on 29th December, 1170, became one of the greatest scandals in the medieval world. Becket was seen by Henry II as an avaricious, jumped up troublemaker but when he died they found a hairshirt crawling with all kinds of scummy shit proving the man was a bloody saint.
Henry II whose famous quote, “won’t somebody rid me of this troublesome priest”, lived to regret his actions to his dying day. The film, already made into an Oscar-winning adaptation in the early 1960s, is based on Jean Anouilh’s play.
It is a story of friendship,...
- 11/15/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It’ll actually be more of an adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, produced in 1959, than a remake of the 1964 film starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole as Thomas a’ Becket and King Henry II, respectively. That film earned 11 Oscar noms, including a win for Best Writing.
Speaking of writing Oscars, scribe William Monahan, who’ll write/direct the new Becket film, has been pretty much shaping his career the way he wants to following his win for The Departed a few years back. He’s got his directorial debut London Boulevard, starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, coming out in the UK in a few weeks and the U.S. this February.
Here’s what he had to say about his Becket:
“It’s an adaptation, or re-invigoration, of an older play, which has already been a brilliant film…For me, it’s a chance to take...
Speaking of writing Oscars, scribe William Monahan, who’ll write/direct the new Becket film, has been pretty much shaping his career the way he wants to following his win for The Departed a few years back. He’s got his directorial debut London Boulevard, starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, coming out in the UK in a few weeks and the U.S. this February.
Here’s what he had to say about his Becket:
“It’s an adaptation, or re-invigoration, of an older play, which has already been a brilliant film…For me, it’s a chance to take...
- 11/12/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
The consensus seems to be that Cannes 2010 was far from a stellar year. But the competition produced a bewitching Palme d'Or winner, there were frequent gems elsewhere, and flashes of real social engagement from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Lucy Walker
• Peter Bradshaw's full review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Cannes 2010 may have been a non-vintage year in many ways, but it yielded a glorious Palme d'Or winner in the form of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, an utterly beguiling film, bewitchingly mysterious and strange in his distinctive manner, and unselfconsciously yet unapologetically spiritual – a spirituality that the director quietly offers as an alternative to the belligerent nationalism and factious politics for which Thailand is now in the news.
It is a compassionate film that combines gentle comedy with fantasy and offers a transcendental vision of love,...
• Peter Bradshaw's full review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Cannes 2010 may have been a non-vintage year in many ways, but it yielded a glorious Palme d'Or winner in the form of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, an utterly beguiling film, bewitchingly mysterious and strange in his distinctive manner, and unselfconsciously yet unapologetically spiritual – a spirituality that the director quietly offers as an alternative to the belligerent nationalism and factious politics for which Thailand is now in the news.
It is a compassionate film that combines gentle comedy with fantasy and offers a transcendental vision of love,...
- 5/24/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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