Ann Lemons Pollack

  • Corman

    Roger Corman, long known as "the king of the B's," for hundreds of shlocky movies that he produced and/or directed, and which filled drive-ins and grind houses for decades, was noted for the many people who got their start with him and went on to fame and fortune. Of course, they were young and eager

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  • Rampart

    The tale of the sadistic, psychotic policeman is not a new one, but Woody Harrelson is fierce and frightening as a rogue in “Rampart,” a police district in Los Angeles, its own, real history rabid enough to earn its own movie. Harrelson, his face a series of reddish-tan angles sticking out from behind aviator sunglasses.

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  • Declaration of War

    The use of the word "war" may be a touch of hyperbole, but when a mother discovers there's something wrong with her child, she's quick to go into warrior mode against whatever and whoever is keeping him from being the icon of perfection she demands. So it is with Valerie Donzelli, director, co-writer and star

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  • New York City: Nice Matin

    Nice Matin, named for the largest newspaper in the South of France, sits, sidewalk tables at the ready, on a corner of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Part of a Manhattan restaurant group called Tour de France, each featuring a regional French cuisine, its menu sings of Provence and the Riviera. And so does its interior,

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  • Cry-Baby

    Were some of the music different, it might have been Mickey and Judy out there — yep, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland — singing and dancing, she the nice girl from the right side of the tracks, he the boy who used words like "swell," and sometimes "damn." The good kids and the ruffians were

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  • The Glass Menagerie

    Tennessee Williams’ famed “memory play” about his days at the International Shoe Company warehouse on 15th Street in downtown St. Louis, “The Glass Menagerie,” is a searing look at the playwright’s family. It’s made even harsher by the fact that while he wrote, looking backward a decade or so, his anger seemed to grow. The

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  • Miss Representation

    No wonder women are angry. . . . They are barred from testifying before Congress on legislation vital to their interests, they still are seen as sex symbols and generally as second-class citizens, as pointed out strongly in "Miss Representation," a documentary that runs tonight as part of the Webster University Film Series. Jennifer Siebel

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  • Tim and Eric’s Billion-Dollar Movie

    There are lots of bad movies out there. Every day, in every way, people make ever-dumber, ever-more absurd, ever-less entertaining movies. The latest ridiculous example, "Tim and Eric's Billion-Dollar Movie" opens here today, as among the worst movies I've ever been privileged to see. Tim Heidecker and Erkic Wareheim wrote, directed and starred in this

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  • Yen Ching

    Forty years ago, as a rookie Post-Dispatch writer on the restaurant beat, my first piece about Chinese food began, "Beware the peppers!" It hailed Yen Ching, a new Brentwood Boulevard establishment, as a ground-breaker, a pioneer in introducing the spicy cooking of Hunan and Peking to St. Louisans. It became a member of my Class

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  • The Conquest

    Having watched Republican candidates through this never-ending primary campaign was the perfect preparation for looking at "The Conquest," a tale of Nicolas Sarkozy and his lengthy, vicious campaign to become president of France. All politicians are nuts! Watching Sarkozy destroy his rivals, ridicule his predecessors and supposed colleagues, leap from bed to bed and totally

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