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Front Row at 5 Movie BlogJames Owen is the on-air film critic for KY3 and writes for the Front Row at Five blog at ky3.com. He brings a unique and quasi-academic approach to talking about movies. Prior to that, he was the film columnist for Springfield Go! and a freelance writer for 417 Magazine. Until recently, James was co-editor and writer for www.filmsnobs.com. The site, which he co-created, was subject to profile in the Lawrence (KS) Journal-World and the Kansas City Star. Additionally, the Star named James one of the Top 30 Artists Under the Age of 30 in the KC Metro area in 2004. While on Filmsnobs, he was a member of the Kansas City Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Circle and was featured at www.rottentomatoes.com. In his spare time, James is an associate attorney with Hosmer, King, & Royce, LLC in Springfield. 
Hollywood is going all out for the Independence DAy weekend with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for the kids, and adult guys and gals can enjoy lots with the gangster flick Public Enemies.
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If you think Hollywood is out of ideas, check out Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a sequel from a movie about a bunch of toys, or the book adaptation, My Sister's Keeper.
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Yes, the KC Star's Joe Posnanski - who is as entertaining of a writer as you can find - has two real gems buried in his latest blog entry - http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/06/19/bugging-harold-reynolds/#more-2291 . Read more »
The Springfield/Greene County Park Board has announced its "Movies in the Park" series, a now-annual event where - starting at dusk - films with a family edge are projected onto the concrete surroundings of Founders Park at Water Street and Jefferson Avenue near downtown Springfield. Read more »
For those of you who want to get down and dirty with your humor, there's the rollicky Year One. For those of you more refined, The Moxie in Springfield has Valentino: The Last Emperor.
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The only thing we have this week is the promising-looking rehash of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and once-promising Eddie Murphy in Imagine That. Imagine that, indeed.
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If you're a fan of emotionally-stunted men-children getting themselves into wacky situations, Hollywood has you covered with The Hangover and the Will-Ferrell laugher Land of the Lost. Read more »
McG’s Terminator: Salvation might take itself as seriously as any film in summer movie history. In its two hours of running time, there is nary a moment of comic relief or pop-culture-ready quip (No “Hasta la Vista, baby!” here) to be found among the script’s weighty statements about the end of the world or what the REAL difference is between a human and a machine. (Spoiler alert: It has something to do with the human heart. Awwww. ) Barely a moment of light emerges from the ashen hues of the photography’s color tone. By the time it was over, I wanted to get myself checked for asbestos. Read more »
Hollywood's only got one movie coming out this weekend. Angels and Demons should have enough action and religious skepticism for any diehard movie fan. Read more »
Most moviegoers this week are going to line up with the trekkers for Star Trek, the newest incarnation of that saga. But, in downtown Springfield, you can also catch The Life of Reilly about famous weirdo Charles Nelson Reilly. Read more »
Summer starts at the theaters at 12:01 a.m. May 1 with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. For those of you who can't get into that movie, you could try Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Read more »
We've got some high-mindedness heading your way this weekend with the eco-documentary Earth and with Jamie Foxx finding redemption through Great White Hope Robert Downey Jr. in The Soloist.
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For the ladies, we have Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in State of Play while you girls can swoon over Zac Efron in 17 Again. Read more »
Young kids can get excited about Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie. Older kids at heart can be repelled by Seth Rogan in Observe and Report.
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We've got movies for immature people of all ages with Adventureland and Fast and Furious coming out this weekend. Is it too fast and furious for you? Read more »
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