Jack Nicholson

Cuckoo For Theater Buffs

Learning to say what you mean and mean what you say in How Do You Know?

Joaquin Phoenix implodes to prove a point in I'm Still Here

Anton Corbijn turns the tried-and-true thriller inward in The American

Head Trip

Tennessee Williams Writes Like ... H.P. Lovecraft? WTF?

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Lovely Sorts of Death

We at the Daily RFT will admit to being suckers for the latest Internet craze, whatever it happens to be. Foursquare? We're on it. *%&^! My Dad Says? We read it every day back when it was just a stream on Twitter.We do not write like Stephenie Meyer. We do not write like Stephenie Meyer.​So la ... More >>

Feel the Fear

We at the Daily RFT will admit to being suckers for the latest Internet craze, whatever it happens to be. Foursquare? We're on it. *%&^! My Dad Says? We read it every day back when it was just a stream on Twitter.We do not write like Stephenie Meyer. We do not write like Stephenie Meyer.​So la ... More >>

Big Funny: Founder Bill Chott and his fellow improv tricksters aim to bring back the glory days of St. Louis sketch comedy

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A Day In the Life of Stewart Cink

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Rabbit At Rest: Novelist John Updike Dead at 76

John Updike passed away today from lung cancer. Updike wrote more than 50 books in his career and won countless literary awards, including two Pulitzers for his novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's latest novel revisited his popular 1984 book "Witches of Eastwick" that was turned i ... More >>

Mickey Rourke climbs back in the ring with The Wrestler

John Updike passed away today from lung cancer. Updike wrote more than 50 books in his career and won countless literary awards, including two Pulitzers for his novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's latest novel revisited his popular 1984 book "Witches of Eastwick" that was turned i ... More >>

Kubrick, Brick by Brick

John Updike passed away today from lung cancer. Updike wrote more than 50 books in his career and won countless literary awards, including two Pulitzers for his novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's latest novel revisited his popular 1984 book "Witches of Eastwick" that was turned i ... More >>

Wookiee Mistake

John Updike passed away today from lung cancer. Updike wrote more than 50 books in his career and won countless literary awards, including two Pulitzers for his novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's latest novel revisited his popular 1984 book "Witches of Eastwick" that was turned i ... More >>

The Kids Were Alright

John Updike passed away today from lung cancer. Updike wrote more than 50 books in his career and won countless literary awards, including two Pulitzers for his novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's latest novel revisited his popular 1984 book "Witches of Eastwick" that was turned i ... More >>

Flirty Versus Filthy

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

Get Your Shine On

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

Holocaust Revisited

A Ballwin neighborhood continues to boil over Lewis Greenberg's art project: a remembrance of Nazi atrocities.

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 28:

A Ballwin neighborhood continues to boil over Lewis Greenberg's art project: a remembrance of Nazi atrocities.

Saying Goodbye To Two Giants of Cinema

A Ballwin neighborhood continues to boil over Lewis Greenberg's art project: a remembrance of Nazi atrocities.

Date My Mom

Diane Keaton subjects herself to more indignities in Michael Lehmann's latest vapid comedy.

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to.

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers.

Took a Shot

American Dreamz

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment.

Beach Bum Blonde

Clark Street Grill, 811 Spruce Street, 314-621-2000.

Film Openings

Week of November 30, 2005

Slice of Life

Jon Feraro's Jersey-style pies are the real thing

Diner for Two

Looking for love in a greasy spoon

The Wizard of Ozz

Behold the Great Black Sabbath Cinematic Experience

Film Openings

Week of December 10, 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of October 29, 2003

Film Openings

Week of April 9, 2003

Grand Dames

The big-screen gals of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Schmidt Happens

Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

Series/Festivals

Week of September 18, 2002

Riders on the Storm

Fontbonne University chronicles the beginning of the end for the old way of filmmaking in a new series

Say "Cheese"

Movie producer Robert Evans preserves his golden myth in The Kid Stays in the Picture

Series/Festivals

Week of May 22, 2002

Film Openings

Week of May 1, 2002

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Sam I Slam

Sean Penn plays retarded for Oscar, and audiences aren't rewarded

Shut Up and Watch!

If you didn't like this year's movies, you didn't look hard enough. The RFT's film critics weigh in on their faves of the year.

Porn Again

Once a national sensation, Marilyn Chambers is finally ready to retire from the porn business

Penn Is Mightier

Nicholson makes a Pledge to find a killer, if there is one

Who Plays the Most Convincing Psycho in the Movies, Past or Present?

Street Talk published the week of June 28-July 4, 2000

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

SLEEPY HOLLOW

Directed by Tim Burton

Views of the Weird

A look at the ghosts of Alton -- and the people who believe in them