Movie Reviews

By Sandra Olmsted With so many of the Oscar worthy films opening in December, filmgoers who yearn to see as all Oscar nominated films struggle with what to see. Since…

By Sandra Olmsted While some highly anticipated films are opening in time for the Thanksgiving weekend, many more are slated for later in December. Here’s a heads up on what’s…

By Sandra Olmsted Director James Marsh’s adapts Traveling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen, the book by the first Mrs. Stephen Hawking, in The Theory of Everything and reveals a…

By Sandra Olmsted In an unspecified future, the world has been changed by a blight, which resembles the 1930s Dust Bowl, although America’s breadbasket still grows enough food to keep…

By Sandra Olmsted In an unusual move, the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) opens with a film made locally and by St. Louis native Matt Amato, who returned to…

By Sandra Olmsted In Big Hero 6, Hiro Hamada (voice of Ryan Potter) wastes his days illegally fighting robots, and his brother Tadashi (voice of Daniel Henney) wishes his whiz-kid brother,…

By Sandra Olmsted Although co-directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski’s over the top John Wick hypes up every troupe in the revenge-thriller genre, they make the film enjoyable because of…

By Sandra Olmsted Just as Network and Broadcast News indicted news media of their day, Nightcrawler revels in the underbelly of news-ertainment and its desire to win rates over reporting…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children chronicles what changes smartphones and constant connections done ot not to modern life. However, the changes feel like the 1960s…

By Sandra Olmsted Historically, any war film serves a number of functions: inspire the home front, revisit past victories and times of national spirit, honor the sacrifice and the men,…