Beloved Kirkwood Children's Chorale to Perform This Weekend
The choirs of the Kirkwood Children's Chorale will present their spring concert Sunday at 3 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Movie Reviews: '21 and Over' a Real Clunker; 'Giant Slayer' Nice on the Eyes, But Not Much Else
Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters in the St. Louis area.
Are you a movie buff or fanatic? Or maybe you just enjoy the occasional dinner and a movie date? Either way, Patch would be thrilled to have you on board as a movie blogger! It's free, quick and easy to do so! All you have to do is shoot a quick email to Brian Feldt at brianf@patch.com. Jack the Giant Slayer Mark Glass, Patch blogger: ** Here’s yet another fairy tale stretched into a somewhat more adult action-adventure flick following what Hollywood has done lately to Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, and perhaps a couple of others. These stem from a couple of irresistible temptations - the ease of creating fanciful worlds and creatures with today’s computer graphics, and the perceived box-office advantage of offering…
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Movie Reviews: Patch Movie Blogger Rates Snitch and Bless Me, Ultima
Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Creve Coeur, Chesterfield, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Des Peres, Ladue, Frontenac and St. Louis, MO.
Are you a movie buff or fanatic? Or maybe you just enjoy the occasional dinner and a movie date? Either way, Patch would be thrilled to have you on board as a movie blogger! It's free, quick and easy to do so! All you have to do is shoot a quick email to Brian Feldt at brianf@patch.com. Snitch Mark Glass, Patch blogger: ** Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tries his hand at more realistic dramatic fare in this supposedly fact-inspired tale of a father trying to save his son from a long prison stretch on a shaky rap as a drug dealer. The kid is caught with a bag of pills. He’s been set up by his pal, who made him the fall guy when he was busted. All this one needs to do is find someone else to finger, or face a ridiculously harsh 10-year minimum …
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Movie Reviews: Safe Haven, A Good Day to Die Hard and More
Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters in and around West St. Louis County.
Editor's Note: Some reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Save Haven Mark Glass, Patch blogger: **½ The quiet drama, based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, plods along as its inevitable romance blossoms, with some helpful advice from her other new friend - an attractive neighbor (Cobie Smulders), who seems nearly as secretive about her own backstory as our leading lady on the lam. We like Hough’s character, and hope she’s not really the perp of the pursuit, but don’t discover the truth of why she landed there for longer than the plot requires. Expect more focus on finding love than solving crimes as the tale unfolds. The action eventually picks up for a rather farfetched climax, with a welcome little perk at the end. If you find…
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Movie Reviews: Identity Thief, Side Effects, Stand Up Guys and More
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Editor's Note: Some reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Identity Thief Mark Glass, Patch blogger: * This lame-brained comedy might actually be funnier that this rating indicates, though wasting gifted actors like Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy calls for consequences. Identity theft is a serious problem. That doesn’t preclude milking laughs from a hyperbolized example, but the script has to serve the cast and concept far better than this one does. Bateman plays a corporate financial drone with a lovely family and nice little life in Denver. McCarthy not only runs up huge bills and a DUI under his name in Florida, but does so just when he’s starting a great new job that will vanish within a week if he can’t clear the …
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Coffeehouse Open Mic Inspires New Project for St. Louis Writer
Kirkwood resident Kimberley Hughes hosts "Saturday Night Live" at Wired Coffee in Sunset Hills. See singers, musicians, poets, and other spoken word performers.
Director and producer Kimberley Hughes had been back in Kirkwood for roughly five years before she decided to get hands-on with performers again—though not in the way she expected, she said. Hughes recently started hosting a new open mic series at Wired Coffee in Sunset Hills called “Saturday Night Live.” In addition to giving area performers a few moments in the spotlight, Hughes prepares a special end-of-the-night ensemble scene, based on that evening’s performances. Starting this Saturday, these sequences will be recorded. “I’m trying to see what happens. I’m hoping to develop a show out of this. Because I’m a director-producer, that’s just where I go,” she said. Previous coverage: Wired Coffee Launches Open Mic Series With a Twist …
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Movie Reviews: Stand Up Guys, Amour, Hansel and Gretel and More
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in the St. Louis, MO, area.
Editor's Note: Some reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Stand Up Guys Mark Glass, Patch blogger: **½ It’s almost always a treat to watch old pros play to their strength in familiar waters. This crime drama with generous doses of humor and sentimentality serves up Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Alan Arkin in one last walk on the wild side. Pacino is fresh out of jail after 28 years for a robbery that went bad; partnerWalken kept in touch, and greets him at the gates. Arkin was their wheel man, now in a nursing home from end-stage emphysema, making one of the geezers a wheezer, too. These guys were small timers, with little to show for their careers. Even worse, the Big Boss expects Walken to whack Pacino, because one of …
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Renowned Artist to Visit Kirkwood High
The work of William Curtis will be on display during African American History Month.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Movie Reviews: Hansel & Gretel, Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty and Parker
Looking to catch a movie this weekend? We have all the details, including showtimes, for movies around Kirkwood and St. Louis, MO.
Editor's Note: Some reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Mark Glass, Patch blogger: Of all the classic fairy tales stretched or twisted into feature films, this is one of the least likely...and less successful. H & G (Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton) survived the witch and her candy-coated honey trap of a hovel, then grew up to become itinerant witch slayers in a vaguely Medieval era. They are summoned to one imperiled hamlet after nearly a dozen children have been abducted. They soon realize that a coven or two of evildoers is apparently massing in the adjacent forbidding forest for some major event. So much for the plot. The rest is all about the f/x, as H & G do their thing with an arsenal …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Movie Reviews: Broken City, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty and More
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Maryland Heights and St. Louis, MO.
Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. - - - - - Broken City Mark Glass, Patch blogger: This urban political/crime drama is surprisingly well-scripted, with more than its fair share of twists and turns. Mark Wahlberg plays a hardnosed New York cop, who is stripped of his badge early in the film over a controversy about his shooting an alleged rapist. Although the mayor (Russell Crowe) understands and approves of what he did, public outrage over what may have been excessive force compels The Brass to throw Wahlberg under the proverbial bus. Brian Tucker’s script is particularly impressive for a rookie. Director Allen Hughes’ experience in the genre helps, with the pacing and mostly non-glamorous settings well…
