Jack Black

Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie

DJ: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

Tenacious D is Coming to the Pageant

Tenacious D has just announced a show at the Pageant. It's July 23, or roughly a month after the release of the band's third album, Rize of the Fenix. Tickets are $39.50 for general admission or $44.50 for reserved balcony seats. They go on sale this Friday, March 30 at 10 a.m., but there's a Face ... More >>

The Muppets and Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium

​Walter grew up in Smalltown, USA, the kind of place whose population number (literally) flips every time a vehicle rolls into or out of town. He's the adorable felt brother and best friend of Gary (Jason Segel) who, after stumbling across old episodes of The Muppet Show, becomes enchanted with th ... More >>

Seth Rogen schlubs it up as The Green Hornet's masked man

​Walter grew up in Smalltown, USA, the kind of place whose population number (literally) flips every time a vehicle rolls into or out of town. He's the adorable felt brother and best friend of Gary (Jason Segel) who, after stumbling across old episodes of The Muppet Show, becomes enchanted with th ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Carlos Ruiz Isn't a Pretentious Record Store Guy -- He Just Draws a Comic About One

Jon Scorfina​The "pretentious record store guy" has long been the bane of the record shop. Despite their wealth of archaic knowledge, music lovers were never sure whether these pompous clerks were an asset or a plague to their shopping experience. Local comic artist and graphic designer Carlos ... More >>

Rush Documentary Screening at Ronnies in June

If Rush's August show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater won't have enough air-drumming dudes and epic prog breakdowns for you, fear not: Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary on the band directed by the men behind Iron Maiden: Flight 666, is screening in St. Louis on June 10. Says a press ... More >>

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Gladys Knight & the Pips, "Midnight Train to Georgia"

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Coming (at You) Soon: Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Apocalypse Whatever: Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Last Night: Jargon Opens at Mad Art Gallery

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Laughing Pains

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

Test My Balls of Fury

Lazy review or lazy movie?

Gentleman Auction House Recording an Album at Silver Sonya Studios

Lazy review or lazy movie?

Weed Killer

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Nothing But the Truth

Columbia's True/False Festival is the coolest four-year-old in Missouri.

Film Openings

Week of December 7, 2006

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers.

Film Openings

Week of November 23, 2006

Long Live Rock School

Hey kids! Dave Simon's music academy can transform you from a painfully shy teen to a guitar-slinging badass! Even your parents will approve!

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

What's the deal with Mexicans and their fear of banks?

Week of July 13, 2006

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which ain't sayin much

Get Inside!

A round-up of summer's surefire hits (and definite duds)

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Swindled Art

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Excess Hollywood

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

Geeks Gone Wild

If you can't get laid at a science-fiction convention, you can't get laid!

Film Openings

Week of September 29, 2004

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Film Openings

Week of April 28, 2004

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Come Poop With Me (Warner Bros.)

Stag Party

Radar Station discovers obscure link between rock music and alcohol

Living for Cinema

Art reflects life at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival

It's a Black Thing

The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock

Film Openings

Week of March 26, 2003

Guilty Pleasures

Nobody has the right to judge you for your secret musical kinks -- but everyone will

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Film Openings

Week of January 9, 2002

Weezer with Tenacious D and Jimmy Eat World

Thursday, Nov. 29; Family Arena

Film Openings

Week of November 7, 2001

Beyond Salvation

Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you lose all hope

Jesus' Son

Directed by Alison Maclean

High Fidelity

Directed by Stephen Frears

The Eyes Have It

Directed by Stephen Frears