Heath Ledger

James Franco puts his mind to it in 127 Hours

Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa Talks Gaga, Van Smells, Hip-Hop and the Band's New Album

LA's Warpaint play tonight at the Luminary Center for the Arts. From left, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mogzawa, Emily Kokal(front).​The Los Angeles four-piece Warpaint crafts haunting dreampsych with iridescent harmonies and filmy reverb, but don't label them as an all-girl band ... More >>

Gonna Be One Long, Dark Night for Missouri Man Found Guilty of Movie Piracy

Image via​Sucks to be Robert Henderson. Investigators reportedly followed the Grandview man into a Lee's Summit movie theater in July 2008, watched as he slid a camcorder out of his winter parka -- yes, a parka in July (doh!) -- and proceeded to catch him taping The Dark Knight.Fast-forward to Feb ... More >>

Claire "The Joker" McCaskill

Hours before the U.S. Senate vote on health care late last night, Heath Ledger-esque posters of Senator Claire McCaskill went up on telephone poles and lampposts across the metro region. Blogger GatewayPundit is curating sight'ems. www.gatewaypundit.firstthings.com​Similar caricatures of President ... More >>

Bat-Signal Over Soulard

M/M Good? Unreal tries out some man-on-man romance novel action

Critical Mass: The best movies of 2008

The Wanderers: Michelle Williams finds a safe haven with outsider director Kelly Reichardt on Wendy and Lucy

Last Night: Stand-Up Comic Daniel Tosh at the Pageant

Heart of Darkness: Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

VVM Film Writer Nathan Lee on the Death of Heath Ledger

One of Us Must Know

The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There.

Letters to Cleo's Kay Hanley and Folks from American Hi-Fi with Hannah Montana

Tomorrow's Misery Today

Children of Men

Film Openings

Week of December 14, 2006

Don't Know Smack

Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick.

SLIFF Redux

Highlights from the second week of the St. Louis International Film Festival.

Heath in Heat

Ledger plays it straight as Casanova's lustful lead

Holiday Feast

Our critics chew on the film trends of '05

Homo on the Range

Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

Queries

Unreal finds an angry blogger with a lot to say (most of it not suitable for work), gets expert analyses of Wash. U. students' attractiveness and gives a pop quiz to potential padres

Black Forest

Terry Gilliam returns, with no one but himself to blame

Film Openings

Week of August 24, 2005

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, 05 may be a pleasant surprise.

His Guy Friday

A gay movie buff takes tips from Cary Grant

Fixin' to Die

My Life Without Me strums lively chords in the face of death

Film Openings

Week of September 3, 2003

Coward's Quest

The boy-to-man adventure of The Four Feathers returns for a new generation

Banging Bigotry

A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

A Hard Day's Knight

As promised, Brian Helgeland's new movie rocks

The Product

Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in a hurry?

You Will Love It

Josie doesn't pussyfoot around: You're being brainwashed by pop

The Patriot

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Grand Illusion