Subject: Mickey Rourke

• Fear and Loathing in Collinsville: In Search of the "Real" Randy 'The Ram' Robinson

  In the movie The Wrestler, Necro Butcher memorably assaults his opponent Randy "The Ram" Robinson (played by actor Mickey Rourke) with a staple gun, barbed wire and plate-glass window.  And while Rourke is no longer manhandling "heels" inside the square circle, Butcher remains a very real wrestler (well, as "real" as you get in the choreographed world of pro rasslin') with the underground outfit known as Ring of Honor. Last Friday the wrestling franchise pulled into Collinsville and I had t

  March 17, 2009

• Victory with Honor

  March 11, 2009

• Mickey Rourke climbs back in the ring with The Wrestler

  December 24, 2008

• Behind the Metal: Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil

  April 22, 2009

• New releases available this week

  September 14, 2005

• Unreal News Challenge 2006

  December 20, 2006

• Get Inside!

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

  May 24, 2006

• Love the Sin

  December 14, 2005

• Keira Get Your Gun

  Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

  October 12, 2005

• Film Openings

  Week of March 30, 2005

  March 30, 2005

• Color Bind

  What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

  March 30, 2005

• Without Sin

  It isn't the movie you may think it is, but Hostage will get your attention

  March 9, 2005

• Blatant Localism

  Joe Herbert documents the skate scene

  March 2, 2005

• Scars and Bars

  Bukowski gets his in a touching, terrifying documentary

  July 28, 2004

• The Sorrow and the Pity

  In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

  December 31, 2003

• Pirates of the Refried Bean

  In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the outlaw Johnny Depp saves the day

  September 10, 2003

• Film Openings

  Week of April 16, 2003

  April 16, 2003

• Penn Is Mightier

  January 17, 2001

• The Toxic Author

  October 4, 2000

• Whipped

  August 30, 2000

• Hulk Hogan Tonight at Downtown St. Louis Library

  ​Oh yeah, brother!Terry Bollea -- a.k.a. Hulk Hogan -- will be appearing tonight at the central library downtown from 7 to 10 p.m. Read the RFT preview of the Hulk's visit.The Hulkster swings through St. Louis to support his new autobiography "Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring", and guess what? The book is actually pretty good -- especially if you grew up in the 1980s or '90s watching the good Hogan -- clad in yellow and red -- or his evil, heel-character Hollywood Hogan. The book spills pl

  November 2, 2009