Kevin Costner’s no snob. In L.A. 20 years ago, I knew his personal assistant from her Mizzou days, and she dragged him to one of my keg parties. This Sunday, July 6, Costner will be in Springfield,. Mo. to preview…

The reopened Hi-Pointe theater has finally nabbed a first-run movie. “Finding Amanda,” which opens there on Friday the 4th, stars Matthew Broderick as a TV producer and problem gambler who goes to Las Vegas to rescue his niece (Brittany Snow)…

“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is one of the pleasant surprises of the summer, a family flick with a social consciousness and strong female characters.

One of those characters is played by Jordan Rackley, a 12-year-old from St. Louis who…

Gotham can keep its Batmobile. On July 4, St. Louis will temporarily lay claim to the Bat Pod motorcycle and the Bat Bunker tank, two props from the upcoming Batman flick, “The Dark Knight.”

The heavy-metal motor vehicles are on…

The venerable, single-screen Hi-Pointe Theater, which closed this spring for renovations and a mangement turnover, is now reopened for business. Through Thursday (at least), it is screening “The Counterfeiters,” the Austrian holocaust thriller that won  the Academy Award for best…

When I heard that St. Louis native Jeremy Lasky was the director of photography for the new movie “WALL-E,” my second question after “Where did he go to high school?” was “How could there be a director of photography on…

If you’re getting sick of comic-book movies–I’m looking at you, “Wanted”–don’t forget that the fine film series at Webster University continues during the summer-vacation months. Thursday through Sunday there are two films that I recommend. One’s a carnival documentary, the…

Movie theaters used to boast on their marquees that they were air conditioned. Now that many private homes have adopted that wondrous technology, the theater chains would like to remind us that they still offer a big-screen experience that can’t…

Last weekend, my colleague Charles Williams took his family to the Skyview Drive-In in Belleville. It was his first visit to an ozoner in two decades. Now he says he understands why I won’t shut up about outdoor movie screenings.…

When I graded “The Love Guru” a B-, I said that the Mike Myers comedy conjured a few grins. But almost every other review in the English-speaking world proclaimed the movie an instant turkey, and now I’m dreading that my lukewarm words…