Ann Lemons Pollack

  • I’m Still Here

    Maybe "I'm Still Here," is an elaborate hoax, aimed at bringing Joaquin Phoenix back to center stage, back to the limelight and the spotlight. Maybe it's a true, and very sad story where Phoenix decided to explain his life and (on one level, anyway) incipient death in a film directed by his brother-in-law, Casey Affleck.

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  • Everyone Else

    Gitti and Chris are a handsome young German couple, vacationing in the Sardinian sun. They're in the rather early stages of a relationship, finding more enjoyment in each other's bodies than their minds, though that begins to change a little as writer-director Maren Ade's film moves along. Birgit Minichmayr is Gitti, Lars Eidinger her lover

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  • Legends of Flight

    Except for a few scenes depicting the grand old DC-3, there's nothing legendary about "Legends of Flight," the new IMAX movie that opens at the St. Louis Science Center today, offering a commercial-style advertising pitch for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," without discussing why the plane is several years late in coming off an assembly line. Mostly,

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  • Robust

    We visited Robust the evening that the Rep opened its season. Things were humming. Who would have thought that a wine bar would thrive in what the theater itself once described as "the quiet little village of Webster Groves"? But it has, and while it may call itself a wine bar, , it's far more,

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  • Splendid Ice Cream

    Salty caramel ice cream? We're talking about it here for St. Louis Magazine.

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  • Shrek The Musical

    Gaudy, sometimes slightly bawdy, colorful as Fourth of July fireworks and with a charmingly iconoclastic attitude toward the fairy tales that gave it birth, "Shrek the Musical" opened a two-week run at the Fox Theatre last night, with Eric Petersen, in the title role, following Kermit the Frog in discovering that it isn't easy being

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  • Aya Sofia: Brunch

    Brunch at a Turkish restaurant? Well, okay, why not? We hadn't been to Aya Sofia in a good while, and finding something different on brunch menus is always fun (if, too often, a challenge). As the weather cools, there are plenty of tables outside for those who prefer sunshine with their meal, but the pleasant

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  • Equus

    It begins with a terrible moment in a stable, grows until the stable becomes a self-contained world where everything lives. From one point of view, God is fighting the Devil. From another, a psychiatrist is fighting a patient. From a third, a boy is fighting his father and also trying to understand a struggle between

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  • You Can’t Take It With You

    The setup lines are familiar, the surprises few. And yet, "You Can't Take It With You" proves that theatrical classics, with the style of the Energizer Bunny, just keep running and running. Even dozens of bad school productions (except for our kids, of course), and worse, ego-driven amateur productions cannot spoil the hope and warmth

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  • Breathless

    The re-release of the classic film, "Breathless," for its 50th anniversary, marks a lot more than the passage of a half-century and a startling message of aging for some of us. The movie makes us look at changing tastes, and values, but it remains a great, ground-breaking film while it reminds us that classic story-telling

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