Ann Lemons Pollack
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Shame
Adolescent boys have little on their minds except sex. Brandon Sullivan is no longer a teenager, but he has nothing on his mind except sex. Something is quite wrong with the man, and that’s the story of “Shame,” another Michael Fassbender-Steve McQueen collaboration that opens today and leaves a feeling of dissatisfaction. Fassbender is a
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Nuremberg
At the end of World War II, coming up on 66 years ago, Nazi leaders were put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, charged with a variety of war crimes. The U. S. government commissioned Stuart Schulberg, a screenwriter and brother of Budd Schulberg, to shoot a documentary film of the trial, called, simply, “:Nuremberg.” A
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Count on post-viewing arguments after watching “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” a tear-jerker that counts on reactions to 9/11 as a starting place, with one’s feelings toward amazingly precocious children serving as kindling. We have Thomas Horn as 9-year-old Oskar Schell, only child of Thomas (Tom Hanks) and Linda (Sandra Bullock). Thomas dies on the
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Pariah
As if high school years weren't difficult without any extra baggage, Alike (Adepero Oduye) is trying to deal with her growing knowledge that she is a lesbian. That's the premise of "Pariah," the well-made little film that is Dee Rees' debut as a writer and director. The taut movie opens today. Oduye, who was born
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Red Tails
It’s a comic strip, but that isn’t all bad. George Lucas is involved, and Lucas loves the aerial warfare of World War II, when P-41s and P-47s and P-51s did battle with Stukas and Messerschmitts and Zeros, and our fliers outflew their fliers and shot them out of the sky in flaming crashes and huge
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Bond. James Bond.
Three Sean Connerys and one Roger Moore — that's the 007 lineup for a four-night extravaganza of James Bond movies running Jan. 19-22 as part of the Webster Film Series. They all begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Winifred Moore Auditorium on the Webster University campus. "Dr. No" (1962) opens on Thursday, with "Goldfinger" (1964),
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Faraci Pizza
The heyday of the pizza parlor is long past, but sometimes nostalgia rears its handsomely graying head. The Faraci family has been serving pizza to St. Louisans since 1968, first in Ferguson and now in Ellisville. (The original location has been sold but remains in operation.) While we’re sure the take-out business is good, there’s
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Space Junk
Human beings certainly have a single, and single-minded, excellence at one thing , They certainly can screw things up in terms of how they live. They have practically despoiled their home planet — water and air are polluted, and getting worse. Crops are loaded with chemicals; fish and animals are being destroyed. And now we're
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The Iron Lady
If there’s a sure thing in the Academy Awards competition, it’s Meryl Streep as Best Actress for “The Iron Lady,” a biographical tale of Margaret Thatcher, long-time conservative prime minister of England. Once again, Streep depicts a real person, as she did with Julia Child in “Julia and Julia,” and once again she simply nails
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Battledrum
Leave it to the Metro Theater Company to find a new and intelligent — and still entertaining — approach to a very sticky subject. "Battledrum," which opened a January run yesterday at the Missouri History Museum, is about drummer boys during the Civil War, and it's strongly anti-war, even if it's set within one of