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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

Eagle Eye

September 26, 2008

Movies

by Rick GrantB+Rated PG-13in IMax This wild fast moving action film is the perfect genre to show off IMax to its highest potential.. Wow, the action on the gigantic screen was spectacular when I viewed the movie on AMC Regency’s new digital IMax theater. The crystal clear images combined with

Righteous Kill

September 18, 2008

Movies

by Rick GrantBRated R101 min Someone is killing bad guys and leaving poems at the scene. Two veteran detectives, Turk (Robert De Niro) and Rooster (Al Pacino) of the NYPD are on the case. Yes, in this umpteenth cop scenario written by Russell Gewirtz and directed by Jon Avnet. What

Burn After Reading

September 18, 2008

Movies

by Rick GrantB+Rated R96 min The Coen Brothers’ prime directive to the cast of Burn After Reading was, “Act like knuckleheads!” The cast was more than happy to oblige in this offbeat satire of everything doltish, which leads to hilarious misunderstandings and a spy caper so twisted, the CIA didn’t

Bangkok Dangerous

September 9, 2008

Movies

by Rick GrantB Rated R 99 min This remake of the Pang Brothers’ Oxide and Danny a 1999 Thai film, which is also helmed by the Pang Brothers using the same script. And it works. It is the story of a prolific hitman, Joe (Nicolas Cage) who gets an incredible

fall & holiday movie preview

September 7, 2008

Movies

september 5 BANGKOK DANGEROUS This adrenaline-charged action thriller stars Nicolas Cage as “Joe,” a remorseless hitman who is in Bangkok to assasinate four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of

September 7, 2008

Movies

movies now showing BABYLON A.D. A mercenary charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race. Vin Diesel muscles his way from Eastern Europe to New York City in