5/8/13
By Steve Persall | Times Movie Critic Summertime in movie theaters and it's a jungle in there, air conditioned but hotly contested, as beasts of all species battle to be king. It's a free-for-all, except for those moviegoers expected to shell out nearly $4 billion on ringside stadium seats between Iron Man 3 and La …
Another major motion picture is filming this week in Pinellas County, aimed at a much older audience than Spring Breakers and Magic Mike.
Sorry, Iron Man, Jay Gatsby and Capt. Kirk. The summer movie season doesn't officially begin around these parts until Tampa Theatre's annual Summer Classics series begins. This year's lineup is ripe with cinematic anniversaries, starting June 2 with The Adventures of Robin Hood, which first buckled Errol Flynn's …
Star Trek Into Darkness
The gist: The reboot Kirk & Co. take on terrorism, in case you thought J.J. Abrams couldn't update this mythology anymore. Looks like they're blowing up the Enterprise already. At least the old franchise waited until the third movie to do that. Oops, spoilers. PG-13
Never dreamed it could happen, but there's a chance that I'm becoming a Trekkie. Or perhaps I should say Trekker. This is all so new and confusing.
Renoir (R) (111 min.) — A chapter from the early life of Jean Renoir, one of cinema's greatest talents, is the subject of Gilles Bourdos' sensual movie practically by default. The story is intended to be that of his father, impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir during his last creative period, when …
Alien, a lead character played by James Franco, is based on Russ Curry, a 26-year-old rapper who grew up in south St. Petersburg. Here's his story.
Spring Breakers is a black-lit coke orgy on the pull-out couch between the police blotter and the Florida dream.
The March 22 premier of "Spring Breakers," a film shot in the Tampa Bay area, got us thinking about other movies that were filmed in our town. Check out a gallery of movies that called our hometown home -- at least for a little while.
