Meryl Streep

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Stacie Passon's Superb Concussion Is Why We Have a Sundance in the First Place

Glitch Mob, Twangfest and Clownvis Presley Lead This Week's New Show Announcements

wikimedia commons​Huzzahs all around for dub fans and dance music devotees -- the Glitch Mob returns! Plus: Israeli grime slinger Borgore. It's been a minute since we heard from Clownvis Presley, but the STL ex-pat will stomp through one of his old haunts, Off Broadway, on July 1. Meryl Streep ... More >>

Who's That Guy?

Who's That Guy?

Tyler Perry mangles Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls

Pure, Wild Animal Craziness

The World Cup trophy is pretty darn ugly. But nothing says balls like the Golden Cup!

Best of the Decade: Our film reviewers recap their favorites of the last ten years

Something's Gotta Give: Nancy Meyers can't keep making the same movie over and over again

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

Fashion Victim: The September Issue captures Vogue's lioness at her peak. Goodbye to all of that!

How Joy Grew in St. Louis

flickr.com/photos/cromelyJulia-schmulia. Here's St. Louis' cookbook star.​By now, everybody knows all about Julie & Julia, even those who have no intention of seeing the movie. (A theory on the ridiculous amount of media coverage: Nora Ephron's got the goods on every movie and food writer in N ... More >>

What Do Bess and Stephen Colbert Have in Common?

​RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Like every other food blogger in St. Louis and probably the country, I went to see Julie & Julia over the weekend. (It was mandatory. There was a memo and everything.) I enjoyed it. A cat played a minor but alm ... More >>

Julie & Julia, the RFT Review

​As you are probably aware, Julie & Julia, the Nora Ephron film, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, inspired by the lives of super-chef Julia Child and the blogger she inspired, Julie Powell, opens in St. Louis this weekend. Robert Wilonsky reviewed Julie & Julia for Riverfront Times and ... More >>

Top Chef: In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia

Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.

Wild Rides: Sometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the hybrid Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure.

Buyer Beware: Bush and Confessions agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)

J'Accuse!

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

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

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Robert Redford and the American façade.

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

Unreal News Challenge 2006

Week of December 21, 2006

Farce of a Champion

Talladega Nights

The Delightful Dud

Film Openings

Week of July 26, 2006

The Metamorphosis

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor

The Long Goodbye

Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

Get Inside!

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

Film Openings

Week of October 26, 2005

Slice of Life

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

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Summer Camp

Demme's Candidate overhaul goes for the knowing giggle

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

Farrelly Mediocre

The idiots what brung you Dumb and Dumber ain't funny no more

Film Openings

Week of January 15, 2003

Adapt This

If being Charlie Kaufman is no fun, watching Charlie Kaufman is a real drag

Sideshow Attraction

Part-time geek Matt Hely explains the lure of the circus life

People Who Need People

St. Louis ain't no cow town but it still produces its share of BS

Sharp Cookie

Song of Songs