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This one-screen historic St. Louis theater is located off McCausland Avenue in Richmond Heights. It's the city's oldest continuously operating theater, and features midnight movie and classic film screenings in addition to first runs, as well as a snack bar that serves concessions and beer and wine.
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet he's curiously absent, detached in a Zenlike way from the whole affair. The nakedness that defines his... More »
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet he's curiously absent, detached in a Zenlike way from the whole affair. The nakedness that defines his best performances has become, paradoxically, a kind of mask, not unlike the sleek, airbrushed-looking one he wears as the superhero incarnation of cocky kajillionaire Tony Stark. Today, Downey could play Stark in his sleep. The jittery self-doubt, the look-at-me hubris, the Boy Scout cluelessness about women: He's become so proficient in his believability that you can hardly believe a minute of it. Maybe you don't need to believe much in Iron Man 3. This is the first in the franchise to be directed by Shane Black, and only the second picture the prolific action screenwriter has made. (The first was the marvelously nerve-jangling Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, also starring Downey.) On the plus side, Black has a puckish sense of humor, and shows a healthy resistance to the comic-booky self-seriousness of the Batman movies. The villains in Iron Man 3, for example, include the Mandarin, a pointy-bearded sage who’s half Osama bin Laden, half Ming the Merciless. He's played with bug-eyed hamminess by Ben Kingsley, and the movie is spooky, silly, or both whenever he's onscreen. But the big problems with Iron Man 3 are less specific to the movie itself than they are characteristic of the hypermalaise that's infected so many current mega-blockbusters-- too much plot, too much action, too many characters, too many pseudo-feelings. The mechanics of Iron Man 3 are complex and rambunctious, like Keystone Kops, bouncing off one another and ultimately canceling one another out. « Less
In 1949, ski instructor Warren Miller formed Warren Miller Entertainment and began producing and directing feature-length skiing films, then touring them to cities around the country. In doing so he single-handedly created the ski film as a... More »
Mels, with his orderly haircut and pressed suits, is what you would call a "square." In Russia, however, he's a valued member of the young communists party, and as such is kind of a big deal. He helps to break up a stilyagi gathering as part of... More »
Tonally, director Joe Dante's latest horror film The Hole: 3-D has a lot in common with the kinds of movies he and Spielberg used to make in the 1980s. It's a suburban adventure involving a small cast of kids, and; as in Gremlins, Dante doesn't... More »
The Hi-Pointe Theatre (10025 McCausland Avenue, Richmond Heights; 314-995-6273) hosts two late night screenings of Dario Argento's highly stylized classic, Suspiria. Fri., Aug. 3, 11:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 4, 11:30 p.m., 2012 More »
The terrifying neo-cool imagery of the '80s -- stark colors, sharp angles, chunky electronics made of black plastic -- has long been dormant. Beyond the Black Rainbow is a freak-out film described by director Panos Cosmatos as "Reagan-era fever... More »
Pretty sweet cinema. They just have one screen, but it's pretty large. Takes you way back. If you go on a Wednesday, tickets are only $5.
Didn't get to actually SEE the movie we came to see, or any movie at all! Online it was advertised "Inception" was showing, but when we arrived, hoping to pay the wonderful, Wednesday price of $5 we were disappointed to find another movie was showing and we had missed the start time for it as well. I took a ton of pictures of the interior though and hope to return. Supposedly the Riverfront Times voted their bathrooms as "Best in STL". It is the last old-fashioned, one-screen movie theater in St. Louis. There is a ton of neat memorabilia, including pictures of Humphrey Bogart and an autographed Bruce Willis picture, etc.
Back in 2001 Sony Pictures got caught putting rave quotes from a made-up movie critic on its posters for such films as A Knight's Tale and Hollow Man. The studio was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution to duped moviegoers. Sony's money would've been better spent by hiring Paul Faur and Charles Evans, manager and assistant manager, respectively, at the Hi-Pointe Theatre. Weekend in and weekend out, this pair devises the cleverest cine-centric turns of phrase since the days of Pauline... More »
If all you know about rap battles comes from a few liberally edited airings of 8 Mile on VH1, well, you need to drop the remote and head for the giant Amoco sign. Since 1998 the Hi-Pointe's Monday nights have been reserved for the weekly Open-Mic MC Battle, where from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Lamar "MC Finsta" Williams and the Midwest Avengers' John Harrington host DJs K-Nine, Smitty, Charlie Chan and others while fifteen hip-hopefuls -- up to 10 percent of them female -- get a go on the microphone.... More »
What the St. Louis cinema scene lacks in screen volume, it makes up for with character. The luxury of the Chase, the ornate majesty and scheduling ingenuity of the Tivoli, the stridently highfalutin art-house standards of Plaza Frontenac, the seamless milieu of old and new at the Esquire -- there is considerable virtue to behold and accolades to bestow around town. But none parallels the icy cool splendor of the 81-year-old Hi-Pointe Theatre. Basking in a blue glow of minimalist chic that... More »
The moment you hit the top floor of the Hi-Pointe Café, a sight appears that's so loud you have to squint. Inside the bathrooms is a caterwaul of rock & roll, the visual version: graffiti. A gusty deliverance of subcultural scribble jacksonpollocks every surface like a demented office birthday card. Graffiti sprawls in every mental and physical direction like a page torn from the diary of a schizophrenic -- an obviously troubled soul who also suffers from Tourette's syndrome, sexual... More »
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