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Lawsuit: "Notorious Overseas Oligarch" Trying To Buy Rare Earth Mine in Missouri

Ahti Vilppula made his millions in media and metals in Europe.​It reads like the plot to a James Bond flick. New complaints added to a federal lawsuit in St. Louis suggest that a Finnish businessman with alleged ties to organized crime in Europe and the Middle East is attempting to gain control of ... More >>

Can You Tell Real St. Louis Symphony Pops Concert Gimmicks From Fakes?

​The St. Louis Symphony has announced a handful of new shows for its 2011-2012 Live at Powell series. They are unapologetically pop-centric, which is nothing new for this series or indeed for symphony orchestras nationwide. As it gets harder and harder to attract audiences to classical music, ... More >>

Corle2da's "Digital" Video Finally Drops: "The Internet's the New Streets"

Corle2da's video for "Digital," his second single, is finally online. The zeitgeisty track namechecks everything from Facebook to ADHD. Appropriately, the video opens on a tricked-out Honda NSX (that car is sex), and follows Corle through a James Bond-style mission in a real live computer mainframe. ... More >>

J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2010

Corle2da's video for "Digital," his second single, is finally online. The zeitgeisty track namechecks everything from Facebook to ADHD. Appropriately, the video opens on a tricked-out Honda NSX (that car is sex), and follows Corle through a James Bond-style mission in a real live computer mainframe. ... More >>

"Diverging Diamond" Interchange at Dorsett and 270 Has Motorist Driving in "Wrong" Lane

The Double Diamond let's you drive British -- if only for a couple hundred feet.​This weekend MoDOT officially opened its fancy, schmancy new interchange at Interstate 270 and Dorsett Road. The intersection is called a "Diverging Diamond" -- a name presumably stolen from a 007 book that never was. ... More >>

Arnold, Missouri Makes a Cameo in "Top Secret America"

Big Brother lives in Arnold, MO​The investigative report "Top Secret America" published early last week by The Washington Post offers a startling peak into the mysterious world inhabited Big Brother. The authors describe how the NSA intercepts billions of phone calls, emails and text messages each ... More >>

St. Louis Exotic Car Dealer Busted for Going 150 m.p.h. in Lamborghini, Putting Videos on YouTube

​Okay, folks. One more time. When you're breaking the law, don't videotape yourself doing it and then upload the clips to YouTube. Why? 'Cause it always comes back to bite you in the ass. As a local auto dealer recently discovered, this rule applies even if -- like James Bond -- you have an exotic ... More >>

Back From the Edge? Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge with a semi-successful vigilante flick

​Okay, folks. One more time. When you're breaking the law, don't videotape yourself doing it and then upload the clips to YouTube. Why? 'Cause it always comes back to bite you in the ass. As a local auto dealer recently discovered, this rule applies even if -- like James Bond -- you have an exotic ... More >>

Pale Divine: What Have They Been Up to in 2009?

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

A Wicked Good Time

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

Warp Factor Ten: J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: proof that a franchise can live long and prosper

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

Going Down: Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

Siouxsie

Mantaray
(Universal)

Franchise Player

Casino Royale

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 14

Casino Royale

Film Openings

Week of November 16, 2006

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces.

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 7:

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces.

Future Imperfect

Renaissance is black and white and a little dead all over

Kitty Litter

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

Film Openings

Week of January 19, 2006

Various Artists

Run the Road (Vice Records)

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Super, Ordinary

These heroes may be Incredibles, but they're also normal

The Spy Who Wasn't

Unreal dabbles in espionage and gets motivated with Ed McMahon; plus, breaking news from the Department of Not Quite Getting It

Banzai Beat

Takeshi Kitano masterfully revives the legend of Zatôichi

Film Openings

Week of July 28, 2004

Thunder Rolls

A '60s British TV series gets an extreme makeover

Monster Smash

Van Helsing explodes monster-movie legends with hip upgrades

Bar Code

Laws of Attraction is so generic, it oughta be illegal

Gettin' Windy in the City

The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

Lucky in Love

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale

The Radar Station That Loved Me

Our hero hits Nelly's birthday party James Bond-style

Film Openings

Week of March 12, 2003

Hi, Jinx!

Berry helps Brosnan get his Irish up in Die Another Day

Film Openings

Week of August 7, 2002

Film Openings

Week of February 6, 2002

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

Mayhem All the Way

In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder

Letters

Week of May 9-15, 2001

Spies Unlike Us

Boorman and Le Carré bombard Panama with lies and lust but only a modicum of laughter

Brain Freeze

Too many shocks numb the senses in Vertical Limit

The Final Frontier

Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

SOLDIER'S JOY

Beating the drum for the Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival

PRINCESS MONONOKE

Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Playing with Fire

The RFT interviews sampler extraordinaire Moby

Breaking the Waves

The RFT interviews sampler extraordinaire Moby