Theater/Film Reviews
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Dirty Blonde
Mae West probably achieved more success with less talent than anyone in entertainment history. When it came to acting, singing or dancing, her grades were low. But she was brash and buxom and practically fearless, and she led the league in flaunting her sexuality at a time when it either angered or appalled people, making
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Higher Ground
Doubt stands victorious! That's the best part of "Higher Ground," the latest in a flurry of movies with religious themes that are arriving like the falling leaves of the season. Vera Farmiga, who garnered a lot of notice when she played opposite George Clooney in "Up in the Air," returns as writer, director and star,
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Anselm Kiefer is a German-born artist who lives in France. In 1993, on an 85-acre site near Barjac, in southern France, he began creating his own little universe, filled with buildings, statues, monuments, underground galleries and corridors and dozens of pieces of the art that marks, maybe defines, his life. "Over Your Cities Grass Will
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Circumstance
Maryam Keshavarz is a young Iranian-American filmmaker, born and reared in the United States but with some education in Iran. Like most young people, she has a strong desire for freedom and uses her film, "Circumstance," to make her case. Unfortunately, she makes her case far-reaching and over-ambitious, so instead of campaigning for, say, the
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Roving Mars
Combining the amazing skills of NASA and Walt Disney Pictures should provide a movie that is something special, and “Roving Mars,” on which the two collaborated, is exactly that. It opens today at the St. Louis Science Center, where the IMAX projection makes it even more amazing. The cynical curmudgeonly part of me realizes that
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Griff the Invisible
There are times when the soul yearns for silly. And Leon Ford, an Australian writer-director, is here to provide with "Griff the Invisible," a mockery of super-hero movies with Ryan Kwanten just perfect as our title character, who checks the sky regularly in case the police commissioner is looking for him. In real life, Griff
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Victor/Victoria
In some respects, Kirkwood celebrated a "coming out" party at the Robert Reim Theatre last night, where Stages St. Louis opened "Victor/Victoria," a mostly tuneful tale of a soprano who poses as a man impersonating a woman, and uses the gimmick to get a singing job in a Paris nightclub in the 1930s. It's based
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The Winners
It’s not an uncommon male fantasy, inviting a comely, curvy young woman to share the marriage bed with him and his wife, fulfilling their sexual ideas, kissing and touching and and holding and becoming excited. It’s certainly one Cassie and Kurt talk about in “The Winners,” which is in its world premiere run at Hot
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Red
It's a veritable gullywasher, a torrent of words from Bryan Dykstra and Matthew Carlson. They're John Logan's words, and they pour from the stage in brilliant, mesmerizing style in "Red," which opened the 2011-12 season of the Repertory Theatre last night at the Loretto-Hilton Center. "Red," which won a Tony Award in 2010, is a
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End Days
Apocalypse not now. . . .Apocalypse when. . . . Apocalypse on Wednesday. . . . Whenever. . . . "End Days," a comedy about the end of the world, the Rapture and all sorts of semi-religious situations, is a funny play with serious overtones. It opened as the New Jewish Theatre began its 15th