WILL & HARPER Trailer Stars Will Ferrell and Harper Steele – See The Netflix Documentary September 27

The official trailer and poster for the highly anticipated Sundance hit documentary film WILL & HARPER debut today. 

Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman in the documentary film, WILL & HARPER. In select cinemas this September and on Netflix September 27. It also features Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Colin Jost, Will Forte, Molly Shannon, Tim Meadows, Paula Pell.

Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman.

That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at Saturday Night Live back in 1995. From that fateful first meeting in the halls of 30 Rock, Will knew he had found a match made in comedy, and their friendship and creative partnership would only continue to grow over the next 3 decades.

In this intimate, honest, and heartfelt documentary, Will and Harper hit the open road together to process this new stage of their friendship and reintroduce Harper to the country that she loves – this time, as herself. Over 16 days, the two drive from New York to LA, visiting stops that are meaningful to them, to their friendship, and to America. Through laughter, tears, and many cans of Pringles, they push past their comfort zones as they re-examine their relationships to these spaces, and to each other, in this new light.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81760197

A GOOD PERSON – Review

Florence Pugh (left) as Allison and Morgan Freeman (right) as Daniel in A GOOD PERSON, directed by Zach Braff, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Jeong Park / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Now that we’re a few days into Spring and the temps are rising and the sun’s breaking through, it’s easy to forget that for many it’s always dark, cold, and gloomy no matter what’s displayed on the calendar. Just as the movie theatres are slipping into escapist blockbusters a new drama isn’t waiting for the somber. late in the year, “award time”. It is worth seeking out as it’s a showcase for two acclaimed actors. One is a “star on the rise”, gaining a reputation for compelling work over several genres. The other is a screen veteran, an Oscar winner who has achieved iconic status over the last five decades. The story that brings them together poses an interesting and very complex question: can someone whose act of carelessness resulted in a fatality, ever possibly be thought of as A GOOD PERSON?

When we meet Allison (Florence Pugh). her future looks bright and shiny. The twenty-something is a pharmaceutical rep and a pianist/lounge singer (a “side hustle”). But she’s most excited about her upcoming nuptials to the adoring Nathan (Chinaza Uche). Soon after their engagement party, she’s driving Nathan’s sister Molly and her hubby Jesse to her wedding gown fitting. While maneuvering through construction zones on the busy highway Ally glances down at her phone, when a backhoe lurches into her lane leading to tragedy. When she awakes, Ally’s in a hospital bed with her single mom Diane (Molly Shannon) hovering over her. Before she can stop him, an over-eager state trooper bursts into the room and drops a bombshell on Ally: she’s the only survivor of the accident. Across town, Nathan and Molly’s retired policeman widowed papa Daniel (Morgan Freeman) gets the same news as he’s dropping his granddaughter Ryan (Celeste O’Connor) off at her high school. Cut to several months later as Ally now lives with her mom (the engagement crumbled) who implores her to get off the couch and get a job as they battle over Ally’s increasing reliance on prescription painkillers. When her docs “cut her off”, Ally becomes desperate to “score”. Meanwhile, Daniel is so frustrated as the caregiver to the angry rebellious Ryan that he’s about to “fall off the wagon”. When Ally finally hits “rock bottom”, she asks Diane to contact her dad about paying for a rehab facility. As he’s completely MIA, Ally bicycles to a local church to attend an addiction support meeting. Inside she’s stunned to see….Daniel, who begs her to stay. Could this chance reunion lead to defeating their inner demons and be part of the healing process, or perhaps a friendship?

After being universally praised in last year’s flawed fantasy flick DON’T WORRY DARLING, Ms. Pugh (I’m not calling her Miss Flo, as a leaked phone video call revealed during that PR mess). proves how her considerable talents can take flight with much better material. Ally is a complex, troubled figure but never a victim, as Pugh shows how her physical and emotional scars are slow to heal. We see her in the depths whether literally wrestling with her Mom over “Oxy” or degrading herself at a neighborhood pub with a cruel former classmate (a very good Alex Wolff), but Pugh conveys this as her much-needed “wake-up” call, though her heavy-lidded eyes show us that she’s not out of the fog quite yet. With her new support team, Ally goes past the “survivor” role to real maturity and self-reliance. A big part of that is her initially hesitant relationship with Daniel, and could Pugh ask for a more compelling scene partner than the forever fantastic Freeman? After dropping in for cameos in too many forgettable action flicks, it’s great to see him sink his teeth into this “meaty meal” of a man, reminding us of his deserved regard amongst his acting peers. Freeman does bring some humor to the grizzled ex-cop, especially in dealing with a modern team (loved his “crate” gag), but Daniel has his own challenges as he tries to push through the ever-closing walls of regret and remorse. Like Ally, he must contend with the damage he’s inflicted on others, particularly his son Nathan. Uche is superb as the young man whose grief over the loss of his sister is acerbated by the horrors of his past, still bearing the never-healed cruelty of his father. But he shows how his healing may start with the ending or at least ease the rift. Speaking of parent/sibling squabbles, how great is it to see the comedy powerhouse Shannon flexing her dramatic muscles as Ally’s often flighty (Her “Etsy” plan is hilarious), but steely strong mother Diane? Often wearing her “work duds” (company logo shirt and khakis), she goes from “walking on eggshells” to firmly giving her kin a “kick in the keister”. Kudos also to O’Connor as the often exasperating furious Ryan and Zoe Lister-Jones as the support group’s compassionate but tough (she has a keen BS radar) Simona AKA “Mama”.

It seems logical that this impressive stellar cast would be brought together by another actor, as Zach Braff steps behind the camera to guide them through his screenplay. Making expert use of the New Jersey locations, Braff captures the gritty working-class spirit of the area’s neighborhoods. Though a brutal accident puts the story in motion, he prefers to treat it as bursts or snippets of a waking nightmare for Ally, effectively illustrating how the brain reacts to such intense trauma. Plus he allows the characters to frustrate us, to let their interactions get ugly and often “messy”, as they sometimes fall into old destructive patterns. Save for a convoluted near-catastrophe in the city which brings most of the characters careening together (and violence threatens), Braff avoids the melodrama, opting to show how time can really heal (perhaps the third act is too reliant on montages). He’s made a solid foundation, but it’s the ensemble led by the inspired pairing of Pugh and Freeman that is the real strength of A GOOD PERSON.

3.5 Out of 4

A GOOD PERSON is now playing in select theatres.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA Premieres Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video January 14th

Drac and the Pack are back, like you’ve never seen them before in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. Reunite with your favorite monsters for an all-new adventure that presents Drac (Brian Hull) with his most terrifying task yet. When Van Helsing’s (Jim Gaffigan) mysterious invention, the ‘Monsterification Ray,’ goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny (Andy Samberg) becomes a monster! In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis (Selena Gomez) and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent. The film also features the voices of Kathryn Hahn (Ericka), Steve Buscemi (Wayne), Molly Shannon (Wanda), David Spade (Griffin the Invisible Man), Keegan-Michael Key (Murray), Fran Drescher (Eunice), Brad Abrell (Frank), and Asher Blinkoff (Dennis). 

For the final chapter of the Hotel Transylvania film series, franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns as one of the screenwriters and executive producers. Selena Gomez will also serve as an executive producer, while reprising her role as Drac’s daughter, Mavis, alongside Andy Samberg, returning as Johnny. Directed by Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska, the film is produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone and executive produced by Tartakovsky, Michelle Murdocca, and Gomez. The story is by Genndy Tartakovsky with a screenplay by Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo and Genndy Tartakovsky.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA stars Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Brian Hull, Fran Drescher, Brad Abrell, and Asher Blinkoff

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA First Trailer Is Here And There Are Some MONSTER Changes!

Drac and the pack are back, like you’ve never seen them before in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA. Reunite with your favorite monsters for an all-new adventure that presents Drac with his most terrifying task yet.

When Van Helsing’s mysterious invention, the ‘Monsterfication Ray,” goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster! In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy. With help from Mavis and the hilariously human Drac Pack, the heat is on to find a way to switch themselves back before their transformations become permanent.

The voice-cast includes Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Brian Hull, Asher Blinkoff, Brad Abrell, Fran Drescher, Jim Gaffigan, and Molly Shannon.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA will be the final chapter of the successful franchise from Sony Pictures Animation, with the first three installments grossing over $1.3 billion at the global box office. Franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns as screenwriter and executive producer, alongside Michelle Murdocca and Selena Gomez, who will also reprise her role as Dracula’s daughter, Mavis. Directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, and produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone, the film will hit theatres July 23, 2021.

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WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Kicks Off ‘Camp Arkadin’ July 1st at The Heavy Anchor in St. Louis

“McKinley, there are some lower campers stuck in the ropes course. I meant to tell you about that yesterday, but could you get to it now?”

The Arkadin Cinema, a local independent theater scheduled to open soon, presents ‘Camp Arkadin’, an outdoor film series that will take place in the back lot at The Heavy Anchor (5226 Gravois Ave in St. Louis). WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Kicks Off ‘Camp Arkadin’ July 1st. Showtime is 8:30. Enter through the front of The Heavy Anchor. Admission is $8. Bring your own chair. First come, first served. Seating is limited. Food and drinks and available there at The Heavy Anchor. This is a 21+ event, so leave the kids home. A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE. The Arkadin Cinema’s site can be found HERE

Here’s the ‘Camp Arkadin’ schedule for the next couple of months:

July 15th: DO THE RIGHT THING

July 29th: SLEEPAWAY CAMP

August 12th: THE BAD NEWS BEARS

26th: MOONRISE KINGDOM

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER from 2001, is a comedy about summer camp, a spoof of movies about summer camp, a grab bag of random absurdity and a collection filmmakers and now-familiar actors hamming it up as hard as they can. It didn’t make much of a splash when it premiered 14 years ago (I don’t think it even played theatrically here in St. Louis, but I could be wrong about that), but it’s developed such a cult following over the past 19 years that Netflix made a sequel series, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER – FIRST DAY OF CAMP.

It’s the last day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981 and pretty much every stock summer camp storyline is trotted out for derision and mockery in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER. There’s the love triangle between the geek camp counselor, the hot girl who treats him like her pet and the teen rebel she’s really hot for. There’s the desperate virgin counselor trying to make it with the camp slut. There’s the lonely, divorced arts-and-crafts teacher, the weird camp cook, the kids stuck on a raft approaching the raging rapids, the big talent show, the big game against the kids from the “evil camp” and the outcast kids who come together to save the day. There’s also a talking can of vegetables that boasts of his sexual prowess, a gay subplot that seems to have wandered in from another movie, the old space station Skylab, the worst motorcycle chase in film history, some generic 80s allusions and the charm of a bunch of people who clearly had a great time making this thing.

Filmmakers David Wain and Michael Showalter took a scattershot approach in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, throwing joke after joke against the wall to see what sticks. On one hand, they’ll do a running gag about the kid at camp who never takes a shower all summer, which could come from any number of traditional comedies about this subject. On the other hand, they’ll do a lot of parodies of summer camp movies, like having a kid actually drown while two 30-something teenage counselors French kiss with abandon (my personal favorite scene). They’ll just throw out some odd gag about something like Kenyan marathoners. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but the movie moves along quickly enough that when a joke bombs, the smell doesn’t linger.

As far as the acting goes, well, Marguerite Moreau as the camp hotty is the only one in the whole cast doing any real acting (and, ironically, the one whose post-WET HOT career went mostly nowhere) . Everyone else, including David Hyde Pierce as a college professor and Janeane Garofolo as the camp director, mug shamelessly for the camera. Again, that results in some moments that are funny as hell, like Paul Rudd’s portrayal of slothful adolescent defiance. But there are also moments that fail to make any sense, like Garafolo riffing on Jewish surnames, but it’s all so weird and off-the-wall, there’s never a dull moment. Also look for Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper.

Relive Summer Camp 1981 when WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER screens at ‘Camp Arkadin’ July 1st at The Heavy Anchor

WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY – Review

Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson in WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.

Molly Shannon is spot-on in the serio-comic WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, a completely different take on the personal life of poet Emily Dickinson, portraying her as a sharp-witted woman in a lifelong romantic relationship with her sister-in-law Susan, played by Susan Ziegler. This is not how we usually think of the reclusive poet.

Writer/director Madeleine Olnek drew on Dickinson’s own personal letters to craft a film portrait of Dickinson that is strongly feminist and LGBTQ but also just plain fun and unexpectedly entertaining. The key to that is Molly Shannon. Shannon runs with the idea with comic glee. She is a lot of fun to watch, upending Victorian conventions just out of view, in her signature style, with Susan Ziegler providing a good foil to her wilder moments. Olnek also adds an ironic, comic touch with Mabel Loomis Todd (Amy Seimetz), who published the poet’s work after her death, set herself up as an authority on her, crafting the recluse myth while covering up evidence of Dickinson’s real love life, even though she never met Emily face-to-face.

Emily Dickinson seems to be having kind of a moment. In the 2016 biopic A QUIET PASSION, she was played by Cynthia Nixon. Both films take on the image of the poet as a recluse while highlighting her razor-sharp intelligence, and also detail the way male hostility to women writers limited publication of her work. But the more comic, at times even light-hearted WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY focuses more of Emily Dickinson’s love life.

Using Dickinson’s personal letters, writer/director Olnek creates an eccentric, highly-entertaining tale about a woman with a most buttoned-down image, aided by Molly Shannon’s wonderful slightly loopy performance. Living next door to each other in Amherst, Emily and Susan shuttle back and forth constantly, largely ignoring Emily’s comically clueless brother Austin (Kevin Seal), Susan’s husband.

While WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY is a lot of fun, it makes serious points about Dickinson and the era in which she lived. The film delves into how Dickinson’s love life was covered up and the recluse myth created to conform with Victorian sensibilities after her death, and also the considerable obstacles male-dominated society placed before female authors, particularly a bold, challenging poet like Dickinson. The film includes periodic excerpts from her letters and poems, sure to delight fans.

Dana Melanie plays the young Emily Dickinson, while Sasha Frolova plays young Susan. Jackie Monahan plays Emily’s sister Lavinia and Brett Gelman plays Colonel Thomas Higginson, the editor who was Emily’s purported friend but did little to publish her work.

WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY is a surprising, engaging romp with the delightful Molly Shannon, with informative insights on the life of the beloved poet. WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY opens Friday, April 26, at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac Cinema.

RATING: 4 out of 5 stars

Check Out the New Red Band Trailer for THE LITTLE HOURS

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THE LITTLE HOURS is writtten and Directed by Jeff Baena  and based on “The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio. It stars Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Adam Pally and Nick Offerman. THE LITTLE HOURS opens in select cities on June 30th, followed by a national rollout.

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Check out this new red band trailer:

Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Midnights This Weekend at The Moolah

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“Well guys, we’ve made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers. “

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER screens midnights this weekend (August 28th and 29th) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5

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WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER from 2001, is a comedy about summer camp, a spoof of movies about summer camp, a grab bag of random absurdity and a collection filmmakers and now-familiar actors hamming it up as hard as they can. It didn’t make much of a splash when it premiered 14 years ago (I don’t think it even played theatrically here in St. Louis, but I could be wrong about that), but it’s developed such a cult following over the past 14 years that Netflix has made a sequel series, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER – FIRST DAY OF CAMP.

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It’s the last day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981 and pretty much every stock summer camp storyline is trotted out for derision and mockery in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER. There’s the love triangle between the geek camp counselor, the hot girl who treats him like her pet and the teen rebel she’s really hot for. There’s the desperate virgin counselor trying to make it with the camp slut. There’s the lonely, divorced arts-and-crafts teacher, the weird camp cook, the kids stuck on a raft approaching the raging rapids, the big talent show, the big game against the kids from the “evil camp” and the outcast kids who come together to save the day. There’s also a talking can of vegetables that boasts of his sexual prowess, a gay subplot that seems to have wandered in from another movie, the old space station Skylab, the worst motorcycle chase in film history, some generic 80s allusions and the charm of a bunch of people who clearly had a great time making this thing.

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Filmmakers David Wain and Michael Showalter took a scattershot approach in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, throwing joke after joke against the wall to see what sticks. On one hand, they’ll do a running gag about the kid at camp who never takes a shower all summer, which could come from any number of traditional comedies about this subject. On the other hand, they’ll do a lot of parodies of summer camp movies, like having a kid actually drown while two 30-something teenage counselors French kiss with abandon (my personal favorite scene). They’ll just throw out some odd gag about something like Kenyan marathoners. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but the movie moves along quickly enough that when a joke bombs, the smell doesn’t linger.

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As far as the acting goes, well, Marguerite Moreau as the camp hotty is the only one in the whole cast doing any real acting (and, ironically, the one whose post-WET HOT career went mostly nowhere) . Everyone else, including David Hyde Pierce as a college professor and Janeane Garofolo as the camp director, mug shamelessly for the camera. Again, that results in some moments that are funny as hell, like Paul Rudd’s portrayal of slothful adolescent defiance. But there are also moments that fail to make any sense, like Garafolo riffing on Jewish surnames, but it’s all so weird and off-the-wall, there’s never a dull moment. Also look for Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper.

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Relive Summer Camp 1981 when WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER screens midnights this weekend (August 28th and 29th) at The Moolah Theater (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO). Admission is only $5

A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/994576237229576/

The Moolah will also be screening all 8 episodes of the new Netflix prequel series, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, for FREE in the Mini-Moolah starting at 7pm both days. Come out early for the critically-acclaimed Netflix series and stay late for the original cult classic movie!

Local comedians will perform a brief stand-up set and host Wet Hot American Summer trivia before each night’s screening. Comedians Ryan Dalton & Milly Naeger will be performing on Friday night and Emily Hickner & Andrew Mihalevich will be performing on Saturday night.

Here’s The Moolah’s upcoming midnight schedule:

September 4th and 5th: GREASE (sing-along version)

September 24th and 26th: AFTER HOURS

October 9th and 10th: THE EVIL DEAD

October 20th, 23rd, and 24th: BACK TO THE FUTURE Part 2

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WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Screens in St. Louis Next Thursday at THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

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“Well guys, we’ve made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers. “

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WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER plays Thursday, October 2nd at 7pm and 10pm the MX Theater downtown (618 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63101) as part of THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL. Admission is FREE!

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WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER is the feel-good hit of the summer of 1981. Members of the incredibly funny comedy troupe, “The State”, did this parody film in 2001 of hits like PORKYS and MEATBALLS by over-cliché-ifying (yes, I made up that word) situations such as the nerdy-guy-gets-the-girl (sort of), and a-camp-counselor-saves-the day. Everything seems normal enough in WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER at first. One of the counselors turns out to be gay, one of the kids has a chance to lose his virginity, the nerd guy likes the hot girl with the jerk boyfriend., etc, but once the kids make a trip to town, this entire movie gets truly bizarre. It starts off kinda normal with the counselors drinking and smoking cigarettes. Then smoking pot. Then all of a sudden they attack an old woman, steal her money, and use it to buy cocaine and heroin. From that point on, the movie makes no sense. But I think the randomness is pretty funny. If you’re not in or of the right frame of mind, the movie might just seem “dumb.” However, the performances of Chris Meloni, Amy Poehler, Michael Ian Black, Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, and Elizabeth Banks are hilarious, mixing a dark and twisted sense humor and nostalgia for the early Eighties.

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St. Louis-area film fans will have the chance to see WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER on the big screen when it plays Thursday, October 2nd at 7pm and 10pm the MX Theater downtown (618 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63101) as part of THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL. Admission is FREE!

All of the details about the THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL can be found HERE

http://mxfilmfest.com/

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This is a special screening sponsored by Sham Fest, a celebration of mockery, spoofs, and satire which will take place October 24th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (for details on that film fest, go HERE) http://shamfilmfestival.com/

THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL is aimed at local, independent filmmakers and features the best of what St. Louis screenwriters, directors, and actors have to offer. THE MX INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL is dedicated to making the film festival experience as accessible as possible for both filmmaker and audiences alike. Taking a minimalist approach they collect no submission fees and the majority of  festival events are free. However no expenses are spared when it comes to filmmaker recognition, with trophies offered for both audience and jury awards. The awards ceremony will be held on October 4th starting at 9:00p in the MX Bar Lounge with free beer provided by Urban Chestnut.

 

 

 

 

Aubrey Plaza & Dane DeHaan Star In LIFE AFTER BETH Trailer

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“Zombies Eat Guys!”

Check out A24’s new trailer and posters from their zombie rom-com hit from Sundance this year, LIFE AFTER BETH releasing on directTV exclusively July 17th and in limited theaters August 15th.

From writer/director Jeff Baena in his feature debut, the film stars Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and Anna Kendrick.

Aubrey Plaza continues to be an utter delight! If you aren’t familiar with her other films, search out and find SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD and THE TO DO LIST, as well as her upcoming film ABOUT ALEX (Aug 8,) before you watch LIFE AFTER BETH.

Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before.

However, the newly returned Beth isn’t quite how he remembered her and, before long, Zach’s whole world takes a turn for the worse.

As a not so typical zombie-horror film, LIFE AFTER BETH excels with its impressive cast performances and hilarious view on the woes of teenage love.

Also starring John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Paul Reiser, the film is rated R for language, some horror violence, sexual content, nudity and brief drug use.

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