What do Tommy Wiseau and the Muppets have in common? If you said they’re both moth-infested hand puppets, you’d be incorrect! They’re both coming to the Tivoli midnights this summer and Mr. Wiseau will be here live and in person. THE MUPPET MOVIE and THE ROOM are just two of the films that will be showing as part of The Tivoli’s Reel Late Midnight Movie series. There are two different films shown each weekend, one in the Tivoli’s large auditorium and one on one of the smaller screens. We Are Movie Geek’s own Tom Stockman will be there each night with trivia questions about the films and always has DVDs, posters, and other cool stuff to give away. Ticket prices are $8 (except ROCKY HORROR which is $10, and THE ROOM with Tommy Wiseau live which is $15). We hope to see everyone late at night this Spring. Here’s the Reel Late Midnight schedule for June and July:

June 1 & 2:  THE MUPPET MOVIE and TREMORS

June 8 & 9: WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and DRIVE

June 15 & 16: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990) and THE ROOM

June 22 & 23: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and THE SHINING

June 29 & 30: CITIZEN KANE and 13 ASSASSINS

July 6 & 7: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and DEAD ALIVE

July 13 & 14: GHOSTBUSTERS and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

July 20 & 21: THE ROOM with writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau in preson!

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

There are different types of “Bad Movies”. It’s become sport to poke fun at bloated star vehicles such as ISHTAR, GLITTER, or GIGLI but those films are usually miserable experiences to actually sit through. There are films that are intentionally bad such as those from Troma studios (TOXIC AVENGER, POULTRYGEIST) but Troma knows its audience and anyone seeing a Troma film knows what they are getting into. Writer/director Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM belongs with the group of movies that are so bad that they can transform their own awfulness into a “comedy of errors”ť. Unlike more mundane bad films, these films develop an ardent following of fans who love them because of their poor quality, because normally, the errors (technical or artistic) or wildly contrived plots are unlikely to be seen elsewhere and they become great entertainment in spite of themselves. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is the most famous film in this category but its director, Ed Wood, made his films while cloaked in an alcoholic haze (and bra) while convinced he was making great art. I’m not sure what Tommy Wiseau’s excuse is but St. Louis-area fans of THE ROOM will have the opportunity to ask him this summer when he comes to Landmark’s Tivoli Theater here (6350 Delmar in The Loop) for midnight shows of his film the weekend of July 20 and 21st.

THE ROOM is an independently-made, self-distributed movie Wiseau wrote, directed, and starred in back in 2003 that would have been quickly forgotten if it hadn’t found new life after being discovered by some courageous Los Angeles movie fans.It began playing midnights all across the country, complete with prop-throwing, dialog-heckling, and the audience acting out scenes  and dialog like “Lisa, you’re tearing me apart!(think ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW without the bustiers).  There’s no real way of adequately describing the film’s amusements in standard critique but I will say that it really does live up (or in this case down) to its reputation. A most uncomplicated love story, THE ROOM stars Wiseau as Johnny, a long-haired banker whose trampy girlfriend Lisa (Juliette Danielle) is having an affair with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). Johnny gets upset. The End. To be sure, THE ROOM is a craptacular train wreck that will have you rolling on the floor with laughter because of its stupidity, but it is so transcendent in its dreadfulness that it actually becomes a thing of beauty. All of THE ROOMS’s cult achievement rests squarely on the awkward shoulders of Tommy Wiseau, the unlikeliest leading man ever to grace the big screen. Wiseau looks like Gene Simmons’ squat, constipated brother and has an incredibly uncomfortable screen presence. Speaking in a vague Eastern European accent (he claims he’s originally from France. He also claims to study psychology ‘as a hobby’), his every line is mumbled in the same phonetic, euro-sleaze inflection and concluded with a forced, strangled giggle. Wiseu directs himself in three long soft-core sex scenes, each one accompanied by an excruciating song and while Wiseu could have hired as his leading lady an unattractive actress who could act or a beauty who couldn’t, Juliette Danielle is both homely and untalented. I hate to be cruel but with her bad teeth, folds of fat that pop out of her lingerie, and nervous tick neck-twitch, she actually outdoes Wiseu in the lack-of-charisma department (at I first suspected she must be Wiseau’s girlfriend until I read an interview where he claims to have discovered her the day before shooting began when he spotted her stepping off a bus!).

It’s hard to explain the appeal of THE ROOM to someone who hasn’t seen it. I could describe the craziness that abounds such as the scene when the guys go outside and toss a football around from about three feet apart while reciting wretched dialog, or mention that a main character announces she has cancer halfway through, a development never again revisited, but there’s no way my descriptions can do THE ROOM’s unintentional delights justice. After all the anti-acclaim the film has received, Wiseau has backpedaled and now claims he was making a spoof. Was he? Ask him this summer when he appears at the Tivoli to sign his book on THE ROOM, sign autographs, and answer questions. Tickets are $15 each. Look for more coverage of this major upcoming cultural event here at We Are Movie Geeks.com, It doesn’t get worse than THE ROOM, and that’s a good thing.

THE ROOM’s official site can be found HERE

http://www.theroommovie.com/

The Tivoli’s site can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

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“Get your goddamn tongue out of my goddamn cousin’s mouth!”

Who’s up for a “thrill-a-minute, body-piercing, computer sex, sapphic, car-crashing extravaganza”? Then come check out the next TROMA NIGHT AT THE WAY OUT CLUB on May 18th when we’ll be showing the 1996 classic TROMEO AND JULIET. Set in New York City, the tale centers on the Ques and the Capulets. The bitter feud begins when father Capulet steals father Que’s Silky Films production company. As enemies, the two warring clans are always doing horrible things to each other. Tromeo Que is a computer nerd who spends much time fondling himself in front of his favorite sexy CD-ROMs until he falls in love with lovely Juliet and proposes to her while she sits upon a toilet. WARNING: this film features violence, considerable gore, tattooed hellions, hardcore punkers, nymphomaniacs, profanity, vulgar situations (featuring buckets of fake vomit), and the graphic depiction of body piercing. (Of course, if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be a Troma film).

Stick around for the next Troma film, the 1980 drive-in standard MOTHER’S DAY, which developed something of a cult following after its initial release, and no small amount of controversy — many feminist groups denounced its depiction of violence against women, while writer and director Charles S. Kaufman contended that he intended for the film to be viewed as a satire (those feminists have no sense of humor!). Three women find their worst nightmares have become a reality in this horror film that combines extreme violence with dark, absurdist comedy MOTHER’S DAY. Abbey (Nancy Hendrickson), Jackie (Deborah Luce), and Trina (Tiana Pierce) have been close friends since their college days, and they decide to celebrate their tenth class reunion by taking a vacation together. The women go camping in the woods of rural New Jersey; however, an idyllic few days in the great outdoors turn ugly when they’re ambushed by a pair of subnormal thugs, Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Billy Ray McQuade). Ike and Addley live in a garishly decorated hovel deep in the woods, where they gorge themselves on sugar, obsessively watch television, debate the merits of punk rock versus disco, and strictly obey the instructions of their aged Mother (Rose Ross) — a vicious psychopath who goads her boys into acts of rape and murder, with Mother shouting encouragement throughout. When one of the women is killed by Ike and Addley, the other two escape, and they plot a gruesome revenge.

ADMISSION IS FREE! The show starts at 9pm on Friday, May 18th so join us for bad films, good films, good people, gory films, Troma trivia with door prizes, lots of cold beer and drinks, and yummy Way Out pizzas available for only $8. Did we mention that ADMISSION IS FREE? See you at The Way Out (2525 Jefferson Avenue in South St. Louis)!

“That boy is about to seek revenge over the town that murdered him. He knows this, he says, because he himself is the heir apparent to that throne of terror so long held by the likes of Voorhees, Myers and Krueger. This man’s name is Leslie Vernon.”

A small-town serial killer with a curious penchant for self-promotion unleashes a blood-soaked frenzy of terror in his violent effort to become the best-known slasher in horror history in BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON, an acclaimed horror film that bypassed St. Louis theaters upon its initial release in 2006. Tomorrow night (Wednesday May 16th), St. Louis-area horror fans will get the chance to see it in all its big-screen grandeur when the guys at Destroy the Brain.com present a 9:30pm screening at The Ronnie’s 20 Cinema (5320 S. Lindbergh Blvd., Saint Louis, MO 63126) with director Scott Glosserman joining the festivities for a Q&A and an auctioning of a scythe used in the film.

The tickets will NOT be sold at the door. They can only be purchased online through GATHR. The site is HERE.

http://gathr.us/screening/164

BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON is low-budget mock-documentary about a TV crew that is following around Leslie Vernon (played by Nathan Baesel), a self-appointed heir to Jason Voorhees, Michael Meyers and Freddy Krueger. He has built a legend of himself as the deranged product of a rape who stalks a deserted farmhouse waiting for horny teenagers to party there every year on his birthday. This clever, occasionally very funny indie written by horror buffs Glosserman and David J. Stieve, made excellent use of cameos by Robert England, the late Zelda Rubinstein (the tiny shrieker from POLTERGEIST) and Scott Wilson as a retired serial killer mentor. BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON is definitely a film to check out if you’re a big fan of the classic slashers movies from the 80′s. You won’t be disappointed and you may even learn what to do next time if you’re trapped in an abandoned farmhouse with a couple of airheads, stoners, and football jocks. Just run! – run and don’t look back! Hope to see everyone at the Ronnies tomorrow night!

Cold-blooded, brutal, and stylishly directed by Billy Wilder with a dark sense of humor, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, made back in 1944, is a prime example of the film noir genre and remains highly influential in its look, attitude and storyline. Lucky St. Louis-area film buffs will have a chance to see DOUBLE INDEMNITY in all its big-screen glory when it plays this weekend at The Hi-Pointe Theater.

Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces smooth-talking insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple’s passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other’s motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff’s boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation.

Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the novel by James M. Cain and Hollywood veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. The film will be shown this Saturday, May 12th at 10:30am at the Hi-Pointe Theater, 1005 McCausland in Clayton. Don’t miss it. $5 Admission – Doors open one half hour before showtime – Classic Film Series cards available at the box office – 10 admissions for $40.00. Look for more coverage of The Hi-Pointe’s Classic Film Series here at We Are Movie Geeks.

The Hi-Pointe’s website can be found HERE

http://hi-pointetheatre.com/

The 2004 shocker THE TOOLBOX MURDERS makes its long-awaited big-screen debut (locally at least) this weekend when it plays at the Tivoli Theater in St. Louis Friday and Saturday nights at midnight as part of the Tivoli’s Reel Late series. Brent Roam, one of the film’s stars and a St. Louis native, will be attending both nights to answer questions and sign autographs.

THE TOOLBOX MURDERS tells the tale of Nell and Steven Burrows (Angela Bettis and Brent Roam), who move to Los Angeles to start a new life together. When they move into the Lusman Building, a historic Hollywood apartment complex, Nell and Steven find themselves caught into a web of terrifying evil. A ruthless killer lurks inside, somehow moving sight unseen from apartment to apartment murdering various unsuspecting victims. They are beaten to death with hammers, gored with drills, shot with nailguns, and get the top half of their heads sliced off with an electric sander. When Nell stumbles into the killer’s hidden lair, she comes face to face with supernatural horror known as……The Toolbox Killer.

The original TOOLBOX MURDERS, made in 1978 and starring Cameron Mitchell, was a lively but obvious rip-off of Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Hooper himself directed this TOOLBOX remake so it’s a case of a director remaking a knock-off of one of his own films! Hooper did a great job with TOOLBOX though (though he missed the chance to bring back a chainsaw!). It might even have been considered something of a comeback for Hooper if anyone had seen it, but it got a spotty release, never playing theatrically here in St. Louis……until now! Come see the film and meet the star this weekend! The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop.

Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Webster University film student, Tyler DePerro, will be presenting the St. Louis premiere of his senior project, the short film SPECTACLES, at Star Clipper Comics on Thursday, May 10th at 7:00 pm. Star Clipper Comics is located at 6392 Delmar Blvd in ‘The Loop’ area of St. Louis. Actually the film premiered over the weekend at the Roseland Theater in Pana , Illinois, where much of the film was shot. It played double-feature with THE AVENGERS.

SPECTACLES tells the story of a struggling actor, Clark Collins (played by Scott Joy), who gets his inspiration for his success from a pair of 3D glasses his grandfather (John Bratkowski) gives him. Once he puts on the 3D glasses he gains powers equivalent to a comic book hero and Clark is transported into three movie scenarios which bring out his talent and give him confidence.

Director Tyler DePerro will be on hand at Star Clipper to introduce the film and illustrator Marie Enger will be doing in-store drawings of audience members in a 1 of 3 movie genres styles of their choice: noir, zombie, or western. Dessert snacks will be provided by DePerro, as well as free movie posters!

Come out to Star Clipper this Thursday and support independent film!

Tyler DePerro directs Scott Joy in SPECTACLES

John Bratkowski as the mysterious Grandfather in SPECTACLES

On May 18, 2012, the battle for Earth begins at sea.

Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) directs and produces BATTLESHIP, an epic-scale action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. WAMG is giving away passes to the advance screening of BATTLESHIP, May 15th, at The Galaxy – Mega Screen –  at 7pm.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW. REAL FIRST NAME REQUIRED.

3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: Name the last Battleship to see military use.

WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED. DUPLICATE TICKETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

BATTLESHIP is rated PG13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language.

BATTLESHIP stars Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a naval weapons officer assigned to USS John Paul Jones; Alexander Skarsgĺrd as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of USS Sampson; global music superstar Rihanna, making her motion-picture debut as Petty Officer Second Class Cora Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, Hopper’s fiancée and a physical therapist specializing in the rehabilitation of military combat veterans; Tadanobu Asano, as Captain Yugi Nagata, Commanding Officer of the Japanese destroyer Myoko and Hopper’s archrival; and Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane, Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Supporting the cast are Hamish Linklater as Cal Zapata, a scientist who mans the international satellite station in Hawaii that searches the skies for signs of life; Jesse Plemons as Jimmy “Ordy” Ord, a boatswain aboard USS John Paul Jones; New Zealander John Tui as the ship’s engine room expert, Chief Petty Officer Walter “The Beast” Lynch; and, in his professional acting debut, U.S. Army Colonel Gregory D. Gadson, a battalion leader who lost both legs in Iraq in 2007. Gadson plays Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales, an Army combat veteran and double amputee who begins his recovery just as the alien attack begins.

Inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval-combat game, BATTLESHIP is produced by Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro (the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises), Scott Stuber (Safe House, Couples Retreat), Film 44’s Sarah Aubrey (The Kingdom), along with Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Perfect Storm). The action-adventure is written by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber (Red).

BATTLESHIP will be in theaters May 18!

http://www.battleshipmovie.com

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St. Louis-area DARK SHADOWS fans! Get your fangs on and head over to the Coffee Cartel in the Central West End (#2 Maryland Plaza) this Friday night, May 4th. A caricature artist will be on hand there and he wants to to a drawing of you, but in the vein of a Dark Shadows character. There will be promotional items such as DARK SHADOWS posters and “blood bags” given away as well as the chance to receive passes to an advance screening of DARK SHADOWS next week. So if you’d like a drawing of yourself looking like Barnabas, Angelique, or Willy Loomis, the excitement take place this Friday night from 6-8pm at #2 Maryland Plaza in St. Louis’ Central West End.

WAMG has passes to the May 8th screening of Johnny Depp’s latest film DARK SHADOWS. Now we’re all carrying around phones with cameras so here’s the horrific gig. In order to receive a pass you MUST send in a a “Vampire” themed photo of yourself. Please email them to michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com and we’ll post the images here as well as our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WeAreMovieGeeks.

Easy-peasy, right? Oh and be sure to read Tom Stockman’s interview with one of the stars of the original TV show, Kathryn Leigh Scott  HERE.

Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series “Dark Shadows” to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.

In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from England to start a new life in America, where they build a fishing empire in the coastal Maine town that comes to carry their name: Collinsport. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of falling in love with a beauty named Josette DuPres (Bella Heathcote) and breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death—turning him into a vampire, and then burying him…alive.

Nearly two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972, a stranger in an even stranger time. Returning to Collinwood Manor, he finds that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin, and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.

Family matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the one person Barnabas entrusts with the truth of his identity. But his rather odd and anachronistic behavior immediately raises the suspicions of the live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), who has no idea what kind of problems she’s really digging up.

As Barnabas sets out to restore his family name to its former glory, one thing stands in his way: Collinsport’s leading denizen, who goes by the name Angie…and who bears a striking resemblance to a very old acquaintance of Barnabas Collins.

Also residing in Collinwood Manor are Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gully McGrath). The longsuffering caretaker of Collinwood is Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), and new to the Collins’ employ is David’s nanny, Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote), who is, mysteriously, the mirror image of Barnabas’ one true love, Josette.

Burton directed “Dark Shadows” from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, story by John August and Grahame-Smith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis. The producers are Oscar® winner Richard D. Zanuck (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Driving Miss Daisy”), Oscar® winner Graham King, (“Rango,” “The Departed”), Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, and David Kennedy. The executive producers are Chris Lebenzon, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington, and Bruce Berman.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, Oscar®-winning production designer Rick Heinrichs (“Sleepy Hollow”), Oscar®-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Alice in Wonderland”) and editor Chris Lebenzon. The score was composed by four-time Oscar® nominee Danny Elfman (“Milk,” “Big Fish,” “Men in Black,” “Good Will Hunting”).

A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Infinitum Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company production, a Tim Burton film, “Dark Shadows” will be distributed worldwide in theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

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“They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities your tombs”

The guys at Destroy The Brain.com have a doozy in store for their monthly Late Night Grindhouse Midnight offering this weekend (May 4th and 5th) at the Hi-Pointe Theater: a 35mm print of DEMONS, one of the most absurdly entertaining films you’ll ever see. I saw DEMONS at the now-shuttered Kenrick Theater three times in one week when it first opened back in 1985 so trust me, you don’t want to miss your chance to see this jaw-dropping gorefest on the big screen. You’ll be glad you did.

Those wacky Italians. Whereas plot is not in the Italian horror vocabulary, imagery and breakneck pace certainly are and that has never been more apparent than in the crazy/gory classic DEMONS. The sketchy story concerns a group of strangers who all receive tickets to a special screening at the newly opened Metropol theater in Berlin. After arriving, they watch a horror film about a group of teens who raid Nostradamus’ tomb – finding a mask that causes the wearer to turn into a flesh eating demon, and not unlike the one on display in the lobby – one that a prostitute had put on and cut her face with earlier……uh oh! Director Lamberto Bava (son of Mario) and company never let plot or continuity get in the way of phlegmy demons, demons clawing their way out of a corpse, eye gouging, exploding lesions full of green pus, more pus oozing out of a hooker’s face, a driving heavy metal score (featuring tunes by ’80s rockers such as Billy Idol, Go West, and Saxon), and of course Tony the Pimp who, with dialog like “Son of a bitch! Shit!”, gets all the film’s best lines. Nothing makes any sense, but since when did all hell breaking loose need to be logical?

DEMONS plays as part of the Destroy the Brain monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series. It will be screened midnights in a 35mm print at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Avenue) this Friday and Saturday (May 4th and 5th). Tickets are a bargain at $6. The pre-show begins at 11:30.

The Facebook invite for Friday’s Midnight show can be found HERE
http://www.facebook.com/events/305097572894514/
The Facebook invite for Saturday’s Midnight show can be found HERE
http://www.facebook.com/events/271241982963967/

Super-8 GIANT MONSTER Movie Madness at the Way Out Club in St. Louis will be held on Tuesday May 1st from 8pm to Midnight. These are Super-8 Sound films condensed from features (they average 15 minutes in length) and will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club. Admission is only THREE BUCKS!!!!

The giant monster movies we’re showing are: WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, THE GIANT CLAW, MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, REPTILICUS, 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH, YONGARY MONSTER FROM THE DEEP, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, a Stop-Motion Trailer Reel featuring many of Ray Harryhausen’s giant beasts, and a 35 minute cut of THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION. The non-giant monster movies we’re showing May 1st are: The Marx Brothers in DUCK SOUP, Charlton Heston in BEN HUR, W C Fields in IT’S A GIFT, a Clint Eastwood Trailer Reel, and for the fourth time the Little Rascals in the Super-8 Movie Madness favorite THE KID FROM BORNEO (Yum Yum, Eat ‘em Up!).

There will be lots of posters and T-Shirts and stuff given away. The Way Out Club is located at 2525 Jefferson Avenue in South St. Louis (corner of Jefferson and Gravois). There are yummy Way-Out pizzas available for only $8.00.

QFest ends today in St. Louis with one last film, MY BEST DAY. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by TLA Releasing, a US film distribution company whose primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the final film  for the QFest:

Thursday, April 26th at 7:30pm

“The witty, wacky, multicharacter comedy “My Best Day” features a rural milieu that’s authentically American: a place where people don’t have health care, run out of gas, get places by walking the train tracks, and don’t even envy each other either….it’s about being different, and the film’s message is how people cope with it. Greenwell doesn’t need a big budget and big names to get that thought across, although the film has a consistency of tone that indicates she could do more with more. …Greenwell and d.p. Adam Benn eschew handheld or grainy textures in favor of clear, coherent high-def, leaving any unfocused chaos in the minds of the characters.”

QFest continues today in St. Louis. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by TLA Releasing, a US film distribution company whose primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the line-up for the QFest films playing today and tonight:

“Sweet, funny, clever comedy seeks crossover” would be the Craigslist come-on for “Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same,” and it may well come true via Madeleine Olnek’s wry homage to ’50s sci-fi, urban dating and interspecies romance.”Codependent” could pass as a family film, given the right family. But small arthouse and huge DVD/VOD seem more likely…. The pic’s seat-of-the-pants aesthetic recalls “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and the interplanetary paranoia of its genre; the odd-couple romance (and a scene near the Queensboro Bridge) suggests Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”; the parallel storyline of two government agents (Dennis Davis, Alex Karpovsky) is a little bit “X-Files.” But Olnek’s sensibility is singular, and the work of the cast — notably the sweetfaced Haas and the hilariously robotic Ziegler — make for a movie that seeks, and earns, affection.”

“Director Morgan Jon Fox lays out his evidence with precision and emotive clarity…a fascinating insight”

Sponsored by: Bill Donius & Jay Perez

Wednesday, April 25th at 9:15pm

FINDING ME: TRUTH (U.S., 2011, 100 min.) Directed by Roger S. Omeus Jr.

Comfortable with his gayness but saddled with self-esteem issues, sweet, bright-eyed and emotionally vulnerable Faybien (RayMartell Moore) finds his love life put into an emotional spin when his ex returns with an interest in reigniting their relationship. His friends already have their own issues: Reggie’s in love with bisexual, noncommittal Greg; high-strung queen bee Amera is certain her boyfriend is cheating on her; and the always-meddling muscle queen Jay is busy confronting his rough-trade boyfriend’s girlfriend. A memorable cast of African-American actors make this film a fast, touching and furious emotional ride.

Actor Moore will attend.

A 35-minute cut of THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION will be shown on Super-8 sound film at Super-8 GIANT MONSTER Movie Madness next Tuesday, May 1st at The Way Out Club in St. Louis.

Wisconson-based regional filmmaker Bill Rebane’s no-budget wonder THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION was a hilariously cheesy 1975 throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, a trend then enjoying a revival with films like EMPIRE OF THE ANTS and FOOD OF THE GODS. This outrageous mix of giant monster motifs and backwoods sleaze plays like a hybrid of TARANTULA and THE BLOB with its mixture of giant spiders and falling meteors. I saw THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION at the long-shuttered Ellisville Cinema in West St. Louis County (on a double bill with the David Niven vampire comedy OLD DRACULA). I recall the poster in the lobby which featured a gargantuan spider bearing down on a group of terrified people. In the air above the mega-arachnid was three helicopters and lying crumpled at the spider’s legs were burning cars as spotlights filled the sky. One of the terrorized was a busty young blonde wearing only a negligee. I was jazzed, convinced I was about to experience the greatest cinematic thrill ride of my young life. Upon purchasing my ticket, I was handed a cool 4-page full-color comic book adaption of the film (yes, I still have it).

The main character in THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, Farmer Dan Kester, is played by Robert Easton who cowrote the screenplay and looks dashing in his red longjohns. Easton (who died last year) was a grizzled character actor known for playing hillbillies and rednecks but, as a master of accents and dialects, was considered one of a Hollywood top dialect coaches. Anyway, Kester discovers his field is full of dead cattle that surround a large hole in the ground. He also stumbles upon some baseball-sized rocks (constantly referred to as “geodes”) which, when busted open, contain what appears to be diamonds. Kester’s farmhouse is white trash enchantment. His boozy wife Ev (Leslie Parrish – LIL ABNER’s Daisy Mae) is an bitchy lush, so he lusts after her jailbait little sister (Dianne Lee Hart who performed in Drive-in gems as LINDA LOVELACE FOR PRESIDENT and THE POM POM GIRLS and, despite a PG rating, is topless in THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION) and still finds time to carry on an affair with a local waitress (Christiana Schmidtmer, the warden in THE BIG DOLL HOUSE). When busting open the geodes, Kester doesn’t realize that he also exposes some spider eggs, and his home is soon crawling with furry tarantulas. In the film’s best-remembered gross-out scene, one of the crawling critters tumbles into the blender of Parrish’s Bloody Mary mix, and she unknowingly slurps down the Tarantula Smoothie. Her disgust is short-lived as she’s soon being attacked by a dog-sized spider puppet that pops out of her sock drawer which she is forced to catch and make look real.

That puppet later grows enormous, and at that point this “queen” spider is played by an altered Volkswagen Beetle dressed in a furry dark rug and eight giant hairy legs. That’s right, THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION is known as the film where the bug was played by a bug. Rebane had it made when the film’s distributor insisted that his film include creature special effects to rival the shark in JAWS, which was then in production. Rebane said in an article (at the Undead Backbrain website found HERE): “We had a VW sitting at the studio and a friend of mine said “Can we make a spider out of that?” Rebane’s friend Carl Pfantz figured it out. “Pfantz’s steel framework was covered with black Fun Fur to make the spiders both hairy and scary.” said Rebane, “The mechanical nature of the beast required seven people to be stuffed within the cramped confines of the VW floorpan – a driver and six children to work the spider’s legs.”

What’s especially charming (and awful) about the queen spider is that it is so obviously built atop a Volkswagen Beetle frame. I was 13 when I saw it and remember thinking to myself “Hey, that spider is a built atop a Volkswagen Beetle frame!”. During its nighttime rampage down the streets of Merrill, Wisconsin (actually the day for night photography switches to night for day within the same scenes), its orb-like eyes pulse with an orange glow resembling taillights (were they driving it backwards?). Really, one does have to appreciate the low-budget ingenuity, but still, the end result is less of a menace and more of a loathsomely hairy parade float. Seeing people get sucked upside down into one of these things, blood gushing and all, is a site to behold. Other veterans in the cast are Barbara Hale (“Perry Mason”) and Steve Brodie as a NASA scientists who deduce the invasion (with various scientific-sounding language) to be the result of some sort of intergalactic gateway, a plan thwarted when they simply close it off, draining the spiders of their energy and causing them to melt into puddles of disgusting but colorful sludge.

Director Rebane had MONSTER A-GO GO (co-directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis), RANA THE LEGEND OF SHADOW LAKE under his belt, and went on to make THE CAPTURE OF BIGFOOT and BLOOD HARVEST (starring Tiny Tim!) but THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION remains his most watchable film. By today’s phony, technologically dependent, CGI-enhanced, multi-billion dollar standards it’s a piece of crap, but THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, which Rebane claims only cost $250,000 to produce (one wonders where the budget went),is a whole lot of fun. It’s never for a moment dull and is the kind of movie worthy a large interactive audience (it’s a favorite of fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000, who memorably skewered it). Michael Bay has yet to outfit a Volkswagen bug with legs to make it look like a giant spider and I’d respect him more if he did.

I’ve been collecting the condensed Super-8 Sound editions of movies for about 15 years now and am always thrilled when some odd title pops up for sale that I had no idea was ever released in the format. I host the monthly Super-8 Movie Madness show at The Way Out Club here in St. Louis the first Tuesday of every month where I show about 14 of these films from my vast collection. The hard-drinking crowd of movie buffs always appreciates films with the cheesiest aesthetics and there are few movies cheesier than GIANT SPIDER INVASION. A month or so ago ago, I was perusing ebay.uk and there it was. The seller claimed the Super-8 GIANT SPIDER INVASION was a two-part, 800-foot version. 35 minutes of Giant Spider madness! I couldn’t believe it! I immediately bid on the film (and bid high – I wasn’t the only one who spotted this gem). I won, paid airmail shipping via paypal, and waited anxiously. Well, it’s arrived and it’s a beauty! The color is superb, the sound is clear, and it’s edited around all the arachnid goodness! I’ll be showing my Super-8 GIANT SPIDER INVASION at the May 1st edition of Super-8 Movie Madness, a special theme show I’m calling Super-8 GIANT MONSTER Movie Madness. I’ll also be showing the giant monster movies WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, THE GIANT CLAW, MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, REPTILICUS, 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH, YONGARY MONSTER FROM THE DEEP, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and a Stop-Motion Trailer Reel featuring many of Ray Harryhausen’s big beasts. he non-giant monster movies we’re showing May 1st are: The Marx Brothers in DUCK SOUP, Charlton Heston in BEN HUR, W C Fields in IT’S A GIFT, a Clint Eastwood Trailer Reel, and for the fourth time the Little Rascals in the Super-8 Movie Madness favorite THE KID FROM BORNEO (Yum Yum, Eat ‘em Up!).

The Way Out Club is located at 2525 Jefferson Avenue in South St. Louis (corner of Jefferson and Sydney). Admission is only 3 bucks. There will be lots of posters and T-Shirts and stuff given away. Come join me and the spiders from the geodes for a night of giant monster fun.

The facebook invite for Super-8 GIANT MONSTER Movie Madness is HERE

http://www.facebook.com/events/264301753660601/

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life – and death – in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author. When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Poe’s darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer’s mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe’s brutal stories a blood chilling reality.  A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe’s love (Alice Eve, She’s Out of My League) becomes the next target. Intrepid Pictures’ THE RAVEN also stars Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).

WAMG is giving away passes to the St. Louis screening of THE RAVEN on Thursday, April 26th.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.
2. FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW. REAL FIRST NAME REQUIRED.
3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: Name the 1961 film based on the Poe short story that was directed by Roger Corman and starred Vincent Price and Barbara Steele.

WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED.

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QFest continues today in St. Louis. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by TLA Releasing, a US film distribution company whose primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the line-up for the QFest films playing today and tonight:

Tuesday, April 24th at 5:00pm

JAN’S COMING OUT (U.K., 2011, 75 min.) Directed by Carolyn Reid

Jan Walker was married for 23 years, and while her hubby watched soccer, she discovered “The L Word.” When her husband’s infidelity and a subsequent divorce pave the way for her late adoption of lesbian life, Jan is catapulted her into a new world. Encouraged by her bemused but supportive children, Jan seeks answers from others to help establish her newfound identity. In the film, she meets a host of diverse women – including St. Louis natives Jane Ellen Ibur and Sondra Seiler – and gathers tips and anecdotes from young and old lesbians, couples and singles, and fellow “dykes in training.”

Subjects Ibur and Seiler will attend.

Shown with:

SOME THINGS ARE WORSE THAN BEING GAY (2011, U.S., 7 min.) Directed by Regine Richards

Sponsored by: Cindy Walker

Tuesday, April 24th at 9:15pm

PURPLE SEA (Italy, 2009, 105 min., Italian with English subtitles) Directed by Donatella Maiorca

Adapted from the novel “Minchia di Re” by Giacomo Pilati, “Purple Sea” chronicles the forbidden love of two young women in 19th-century Sicily. Angela isn’t like other girls her age: Fearing nothing and nobody, she refuses to hide her feelings for Sara. To maintain the relationship, Angela disguises herself as a man, and the chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear. Although newly powerful, Angela in her heart never denies her identity as a woman. Challenging the rules of society in order to be together, the women respond to a desire that’s as intense and compelling as only young love can be.

QFest continues today in St. Louis. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by TLA Releasing, a US film distribution company whose primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the line-up for the QFest films playing today and tonight:

Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm:

MARY MARIE – (U.S., 2010, 80 min.) Directed by Alexandra Roxo
In the wake of their mother’s death, sisters Mary and Marie decide to spend a final, idyllic summer in the home where they grew up. The pair is exceptionally close and content to be alone, swimming, exploring, reminiscing and re-creating the golden moments of their youth – their deeply intimate bond growing even stronger. Their insular world is soon disrupted when they meet Peter, a local handyman hired to fix the house before it is sold. Both sisters find themselves drawn to Peter, and over the course of the summer their love triangle escalates to a heartbreaking, near-fatal climax that forces the sisters to reconsider the intensity of their bond. ‘
Miranda Siegel writes in NEW YORK MAGAZINE:

“Brooklyn-based director-star Roxo’s sultry, haunting, debut feature about a pair of
elfin twenty-somethings who become entangled in a love triangle while spending
the summer in their childhood home, boasts gorgeous cinematography by Magela
Crosignani, and a rhythm that recalls Pawlikowski’s My Summer or Love.”

Director Roxo will attend.

Monday, April 23rd at 7:00pm

NORTH SEA, TEXAS – (Belgium, 2011, 96 min., Dutch with English subtitles)
Teenage boy Pim lives with his mother in a rundown house on a dead-end street on the Belgian coast. As a kid, Pim dreamt of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens, but when he turns 16, he dreams of Gino, the boy next door, instead. Ever since they were children, there has been a simmering sexual tension between them. The sensitive and lonely Pim often flees to his dream world to avoid the mockery, humiliations and tiny bits of hope that make up his life. But dreams never come true. Or do they?

Henry Barnes writes in THE GUARDIAN:

“Defurne makes a point of shunning social realism and presents lonely, horny Pim’s story through a fog of polished-to-a-glow stylishness. North Sea Texas looks beautiful, is acted brilliantly”

Sponsored by: Brad Morris & James Agnew

Monday, April 23rd at 9:15pm

GOING DOWN IN LA-LA LAND (U.S., 2011, 104 min.) Directed by Casper Andreas

In this sexy and outrageously funny look at what an actor will do to succeed as an actor in Hollywood, young, handsome and ambitious Adam moves to LA from New York to pursue his dreams of making it big. He shares an apartment with zany friend Candy, who between auditions obsesses about shoe shopping and finding a wealthy man. After a rocky start as a talent-agency receptionist, Adam lands a promising new job at a production company but he’s soon led down a slippery path filled with washed-up starlets and meth-addled directors. To make ends meet, he almost loses himself in the seamy underworld of gay porn and prostitution.

Diego Costa writes in SLANT:

“GOING DOWN IN LA-LA LAND is really a perfectly fun date movie for West Hollywood gays and their yogi fag hags, who are sure to scream in unison “That is so us!” after several scenes.”

Shown with:
REGRETS ( U.S., 2011, 11 min.) Directed by Michelle Pollino
In this short reminiscent of “The Twilight Zone,” creeping dread inexorably builds into horror on the morning after an unremembered one-night stand.

QFest opens today (Sunday April 21st) in St. Louis. QFest, the annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is celebrating it’s fifth year with a terrific line-up of films spotlighting Gay and Lesbian filmmakers and themes. QFest is a Cinema St. Louis event and this year is presented by TLA Releasing, a US film distribution company whose primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world. All films will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Blvd. in the University City Loop district). Individual tickets are $12 general admission or $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs. Advance tickets are available through the Tivoli Theatre box office or online at Landmark Theatres’ web site

Here’s the line-up for the QFest films playing today and tonight:

Sunday, April 22nd at 1:30pm.

CLOUDBURST- (Canada, 2011, 93 min.) Directed Thom Fitzgerald
In this moving comedy, Oscar-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play Stella and Dot, an aging couple together for 31 years. Now in their 70s, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dot’s prudish granddaughter decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home. In a last-gasp bid to stay together, Stella liberates Dot from the facility. They escape in a battered pickup truck and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be legally married.

Here’s what the critics are saying about CLOUDBURST:

“Dukakis and Fricker are outstanding!” – When Sally Met Sally UK

“One of the most original and compelling road movies in years, with dazzling performances and beautiful photography” – Tom Day, What Culture UK

“It’s one of the few unabashedly sentimental celebrations of love I’ve seen in quite some time.” – Greg Klymkiw, Canadian Film Corner

“This is a joyous romance that delivers great swathes of heart and humour while never delving into schmalz or saccharine” – Sydney Mardi Gras Guide

“As heartwarming as it is hilarious” – Sydney Star Observer

CLOUDBURST will be shown with two Canadian shorts:
4 POUNDS -(Josh Levy, Canada, 2010, 8 min.) Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) stars in this hilarious story of an actor who, over the course of four life-changing weeks, focuses his considerable will on the goal of losing some weight.
and
52- (Josh Levy, Canada, 2011, 4 min.) Scott Thompson also stars in this sly short that probes one man’s greatest nightmare: getting old.
Sponsored by: SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders)

Sunday, April 22nd at 3:45pm

LOVE FREE OR DIE: HOW THE BISHOP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IS CHANGING THE WORLD – (U.S., 2012, 83 min.) Directed by Macky Alston
LOVE FREE OR DIE, which premiered at Sundance, tells the story of a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and his love for his partner. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become an Anglican bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bulletproof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since. The film follows Robinson’s personal story as both American churches and the nation debate whether or not LGBT people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God and the law.

The Hollywood Reporter writes:

“A thoughtful reflection on the divisiveness of homosexuality in organized religion, focusing on the quiet crusade of openly gay bishop Gene Robinson….engrossing documentary sheds light on a significant chapter in the broader struggle for LGBT rights.”

Sponsored by: Gateway Men’s Chorus in honor of Al Fischer and Charlie Robin

Sunday, April 22nd at 6:00pm

JAMIE AND JESSIE ARE NOT TOGETHER  – (U.S., 2011, 95 min.) Directed by Wendy Jo Carlton
Have you ever fallen in love with your best friend? Jamie (St. Louis native Jax Jackson) is moving from Chicago to New York with the hope of becoming a Broadway actress. Best friend Jessica is bummed because she’s not-so-secretly in love with Jamie. As moving day gets closer, Jessica tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other girls, but her plan backfires in a way she could never imagine. In this touching film, the two young women must figure out how to grow together or how to grow apart.

Roger Ebert at The Chicago Sun-Times writes:

“The simple plot is charmingly written and acted, and as a low-budget indie, makes splendid use of the Lake Michigan beach and lakefront. Admirably avoiding postcard shots, writer-director Wendy Jo Carlton and cinematographer Gretchen Warthen make practical use of these locations.”

Director Carlton and actor Jackson will attend.
Shown with: THE FOX IN THE SNOW – (U.S., 2011, 10 min.) Directed by Richard Paro
In this romantic comedy, a women’s Bible-study meeting takes an unexpected turn when the members true motives are revealed.
Director Paro and co-star Cyra Polizzi will attend.

Sunday, April 22nd at 8:30pm

AUGUST  – (U.S., 2011, 100 min.) Directed by Eldar Rapaport
After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone former lover Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent rendezvous turns into an attempt to revive past passions. Jonathan, however, has a new beau and is trying to make the right decision the second time around.

Dennis Harvey in VARIETY writes:

“An elemental triangle elevated by unusually detailed attention to nonverbal psychological cues, AUGUST is a gay romantic drama that’s sexy without feeling like a flimsy excuse to bare well-toned skin… “

Shown with: VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED (TAPE 96) – (U.S., 2011, 11 min) Directed by Drew Stephens
The fragile romance between two men is threatened by addiction, obsession – and the secret of Tape 96.
Director Stephens will attend.
Sponsored by: Brad Morris & James Agnew

Look for continued coverage of QFest this week here at We Are Movie Geeks.com

Enter to win passes to the St. Louis 3D advance screening of MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS

Tuesday, May 1, 7:00PM at a St. Louis theatre.

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

2. FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW. REAL FIRST NAME REQUIRED.

3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: Which is your favorite Avenger?

No purchase necessary. Winners will be selected at random.  Limit two admit-one passes per person. Theatre is overbooked to ensure capacity.  Arrive early, seating is on a first come, first served basis. Must be 13 years of age or older to enter or win. This film is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a mild drug reference.

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgĺrd and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, directed by Joss Whedon, from a story by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon with screenplay by Joss Whedon, MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS assemble in summer 2012. MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS is presented by Marvel Studios in association with Paramount Pictures. The film is being produced by Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige and executive produced by Alan Fine, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee, Louis D’Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Victoria Alonso and Jeremy Latcham. The film is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS in theatres in 3D, Real D 3D and IMAX® 3D May 4

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