George Clooney

David Clohessy and SNAP: Ten Years After Gaining Celebrity

Ten year's ago this month David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), was named one of the world's "25 Most Intriguing" by People magazine. Included in that 2002 class were actors and performers such as George Clooney and Britney Spears, world leaders the l ... More >>

The Nine Best Hotels in St. Louis

The 2012 Best of St. Louis issue is fast approaching. Have you voted yet? Go do it now before it's too late! Have you finished debating the finer points of the 2011 issue? We haven't, hence this list. While researching contenders for a certain Best Of category last year, we realized our town has a h ... More >>

Walrus Publishing, Making Books By St. Louisans For St. Louisans

When Lisa Miller moved to St. Louis from Jefferson City twenty years ago, she was impressed by the number of writers in town. Not the ones who moved away and got famous (though there are plenty of those), but the ones who've stuck around, formed writing groups, showed up at readings, published small ... More >>

Boys at the Bar: New Movie Features St. Louis, Played By...Salt Lake City?

Remember Up in the Air (aka the Only Thing That Happened in St. Louis in 2009 Worth Remembering)? Remember how delightful it was to see our city on the big screen? Remember how it was even more delightful to spot George Clooney roaming through our city before it appeared in the big screen? The Boys ... More >>

The Corrections Slated to Become HBO Series

image viaHowdy ho! Daily RFT hearby nominates Mr. Hankey to star in HBO's series based on The Corrections.​How much misery can you stand with your premium cable? You may get to find out soon: HBO is preparing to order the pilot episode of a new series based on The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen ... More >>

The Merry War

Praise the Lord! Concordia Publishing's Hymnal Outsells Freedom

image viaNever underestimate the selling power of a Good Book.​Perhaps Daily RFT's new favorite Tweeter, the world-domination-seeking Emperor Franzen, should take a page from Benton Park's Concordia Publishing House. Since it launched its Hymnal in Every Home campaign four years ago, Concordia ... More >>

Pure, Wild Animal Craziness

Five Hollywood Heist Movies That Resemble Yesterday's ATM Solutions Robbery In St. Louis

Image source​Several local news outlets have already donned their deerstalker hats and done their best Sherlock Holmes impressions by connecting the robbery of ATM Solutions Inc. in Midtown yesterday with two other similar burglaries of armored cars in 1999 and 1992.In the heist yesterday, four ma ... More >>

Look! Up on the Wall!

Shocking Revelations in MovieMaker Magazine's List of Top 10 Cities for Filmmakers

Surely the people behind a magazine called MovieMaker would have seen Up in the Air. Surely those same people, if they were compiling a list of the ten best cities in the U.S. for moviemakers (or MovieMakers), would have taken note of how well St. Louis plays Omaha and several other middle-American ... More >>

After Disappointing Awards Show Weekend, Up in the Air's Oscar Chances Seem, Well, Up in the Air

Coming off two awards shows this past weekend, Up in the Air, the movie-with-a-message (loved ones matter more than your career) largely shot here in St. Louis, didn't fare so well.Director Jason Reitman went two-for-two in the screenplay category though, collecting awards at the Critics' Choice and ... More >>

St. Louis' 2009 Newsmakers: Mayor Slay Buries the Lede

mayorslay.comThe mayor doesn't suggest you cast a vote for him. ​Now that 2010 is afoot, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay wants your take on the biggest news-makers of 2009, a la Time magazine's "Person of the Year". In his weekly poll released today, Slay asks you to pick from his pre-fab list of las ... More >>

Up in the Air Singer-Songwriter Featured on CBS Evening News

If you went to see Up in the Air (aka The George Clooney Movie) and hung around to watch the closing credits, you would have heard St. Louis singer-songwriter Kevin Renick performing his own melancholy tune about unemployment and uncertaintyRenick, a former Riverfront Times proofreader, wrote the so ... More >>

The year's 10 best movies and more: 2009 in film!

Grounded: Up in the Air director Jason Reitman has a good sense of where he's from and where he's headed

Up in the Air Leads Golden Globe Nominees

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association released its list of nominees for the Golden Globes this morning. Up in the Air (a.k.a. The George Clooney Movie That Was Shot In St. Louis) leads the pack with six nominations: Best Drama, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and two for Best ... More >>

What a Fox: Wes Anderson brings his Wes Anderson-ness to animation — and it's a fantastic fit

What a Fox: Wes Anderson brings his Wes Anderson-ness to animation — and it's a fantastic fit

Kevin Renick's Song "Up in the Air" Makes It into Up in the Air

A few weeks ago, we reported that Kevin Renick's song "Up in the Air" was set for inclusion in the George Clooney movie Up In the Air. My colleague in LA, Randy Roberts, saw a screening of the movie, and confirmed its inclusion. Says the Daily RFT: And then there's the closing song, "Up In the Air, ... More >>

A St. Louis State of Mind: Up in the Air Screens in LA

A still for Up in the Air features Goerge Clooney at Lambert Field.​[Editor's note: As many RFT readers know, for many years Randall Roberts was a fixture at this paper, first as a freelancer, later as music editor and then as a staff writer, before he packed up his quill pen and ink bottle and hi ... More >>

Early Reviewers High on Up in the Air

flickr.com/photos/philsdarkroom​Of course St. Louisans already knew that Up in the Air, also known as The George Clooney Movie, was the film event of the year, but now the rest of the world appears to be getting wise -- especially people who have actually seen the movie instead of mere glimpses of ... More >>

Local Writer Has Song on Up in the Air Soundtrack

Congratulations to Kevin Renick, the local writer/music fan/songwriter who appears to have had a song of his included on the soundtrack to Up In the Air. (You know, the one George Clooney filmed here in St. Louis earlier this year.) Joe Williams of the Post-Dispatch has all the details on his blog, ... More >>

Top 10 Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, June 5-7

If you love summer more than any other season, the first weekend in June should mean something -- and if you find yourself having fun and spending wee amounts of green, you'll likely remember this weekend fondly while trudging through the slush of February. Here's our best attempt at directing you t ... More >>

Dining Under the Influence: Downtown sure could use a standout Mexican restaurant. Is El Borracho it?

Vote for Daily RFT's "Ass Clown of the Week"

flickr.com/photos/pomoQuite literally, an ass clown.I've been meaning to do this for awhile. Here's the idea. Each week you (the reader) and I will nominate a few lucky individuals for Daily RFT's coveted "Ass Clown of the Week" award. What's an ass clown, you ask? Urban Dictionary provides a long l ... More >>

Fish Out of (Frozen) Water: Renée Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Unreal (Tom) Waits for no one. We also talk back to the ho hatas and check in with an expatriate, cat-lovin' blogger.

Gone a-Courting

Extra! Read All About It

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Third Time's a Charm

Columbia's True/False Film Festival tops itself. Again.

Cape of Good Hope

Good Shot

Lord of War unloads one of the year's best cinema moments

Independent's Day (1998)

Is Steven Soderbergh getting the total package?

Faker's Dozen

A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand

Bar Code

Laws of Attraction is so generic, it oughta be illegal

Suth'n Comfort

Tom Hanks steals the Coens' latest by playing -- get this -- funny

Virtual Family

It's the Spy Kids in 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

Stars of David

The Jewish Film Festival of St. Louis unspools this week

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Film Openings

Week of January 22, 2003

Film Openings

Week of December 4, 2002

Ocean's Ill Heaven

The tides of Solaris tempt Clooney with life after death

Happy Ending

Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits the target: Hollywood

Ocean's Eleven, Give or Take

Soderbergh and Clooney knock over Vegas, without much to show for it

God's Gift

From the Mountain come joyous songs about life, death and redemption

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

THREE KINGS

Written and directed by David O. Russell

Listening Post