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Ring Leader: Wrestling legend gets the big-screen treatment

January 10, 2025

Feature·Movies·On Screen·Special Showings

Words by Shelton Hull Queen of the Ring is a new film about the late great Mildred Burke (1915-1989), who was the first great female star in professional wrestling. It’s scheduled for official release on March 7, nationally, but local audiences will be among the first in the world to see the finished product when it screens as part

Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

A COLLECTION OF MY BRILLIANTLY WITTY, SUPREMELY CREATIVE, DELIGHTFULLY AMUSING MOVIE REVIEWS AS SOMEONE WHO IS EXTREMELY HUMBLE AND MODEST AND IS BUT A LOWLY VIEWER WHO’S FAVORITE MOVIE HAS TWO STARS ON LETTERBOXD. ENJOY.

Words by Waverly Loyd REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) -This almost made me stop taking my Ozempic. Keyword … almost. I mean, have you SEEN this waist? Me either, hmu if you find it. Watched Oct. 30, 2024 THE VANISHING (1988) This is the scariest movie Stanley Kubrick

January Theater, Dance and Film Listing

Through Jan. 5 Venardos Circus St. Augustine Amphitheatre theamp.com Jan 3-4

Film Review: Gladiator II

Words by Harry Moore Ridley Scott returns to Ancient Rome in this

“The Living Room of Jacksonville”: Residents Rage Against Sale of Five Points Theater

July 3, 2024

5 Points·Community·Entertainment·Movies·On Screen·Riverside

Words by Mallory Pace Since 2011, the Sun-Ray Cinema has been a landmark spot for what’s widely considered the last of historic movie theaters, bringing in residents from all corners and outskirts of Riverside, providing a feeling of nostalgia for when times were simpler, people were friendlier, and movie concessions

July 2024 Film Reviews

July 2, 2024

Entertainment·Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

INSIDE OUT 2 Pixar’s “Inside Out” explored our feelings by taking us inside the mind of a young girl named Riley where we see the personified emotions Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust working together in a control room to guide her through life’s ups and downs. The sequel picks

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

June 26, 2024

Entertainment·Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

Words by Harry Moore After being stolen from her home, a young woman comes of age in a savage, post-apocalyptic wasteland and becomes caught amid two dueling warlords as she attempts to chart her way home. Director George Miller returns to the mad world he created to tell an

June Film Reviews: Challengers, The Fall Guy

June 6, 2024

Entertainment·Feature·Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

Words by Harry Moore The Fall Guy When an A-list movie star goes missing from the set of his latest film, his lowly stunt double is tasked with tracking him down and saving the movie. The newest film from stuntman turned director David Leitch is an ode to

May Film Reviews

May 29, 2024

Feature·Movie Reviews·Movies

Words by Harry Moore Civil War A near-future United States is engulfed in a civil war after an authoritarian president begins a third term in office in this dystopian cautionary tale from writer-director Alex Garland. “Civil War” focuses on a small team of reporters — composed of a renowned war

May Film Reviews — Civil War & Abigail

May 1, 2024

Editorial Opinion·Feature·Movie Reviews·On Screen

Civil War A near-future United States is engulfed in a civil war after an authoritarian president begins a third term in office in this dystopian cautionary tale from writer-director Alex Garland. “Civil War” focuses on a small team of reporters — composed of a renowned war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten

April Film Reviews

April 18, 2024

Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

Words by Harry Moore Monkey Man In his directorial debut, Dev Patel unveils himself as an action star with his revenge tale set in India. Patel stars as Kid, a young man haunted by childhood trauma who scrounges together a living by fighting in an underground boxing ring whilst donning

Film Review: The Road House

March 28, 2024

Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

Road House There is an episode of “Family Guy” where Peter watches the action movie Road House starring Patrick Swayze and learns that he can solve all his problems by kicking. For a younger generation, this was the lasting cultural imprint of “Road House.” That and Swayze rips the

Dune: Part Two Review

March 19, 2024

Movie Reviews·Movies

Words by Harry Moore A totemic literary epic is granted a definitive cinematic telling as Denis Villeneuve further elevates himself as one of the premier artists of his medium. Picking up immediately after the final scenes of 2021’s “Dune,” the messianic story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) continues as he

What The Singles Are Watching This Season.

February 1, 2024

Movies·On Screen

By: Jillian Lombardo I do not know your plans for this Valentine’s season, but I plan on being in bed with my cat and a tall glass of red wine. Accompanying me is a stack of DVDs I plan to watch to get me through this wretched season. I