Movie Reviews: Hansel and Gretel, Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty and Parker
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Wildwood and St. Louis.
Editor's Note: Some reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Mark Glass, Patch blogger: Of all the classic fairy tales stretched or twisted into feature films, this is one of the least likely...and less successful. H & G (Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton) survived the witch and her candy-coated honey trap of a hovel, then grew up to become itinerant witch slayers in a vaguely Medieval era. They are summoned to one imperiled hamlet after nearly a dozen children have been abducted. They soon realize that a coven or two of evildoers is apparently massing in the adjacent forbidding forest for some major event. So much for the plot. The rest is all about the f/x, as H & G do their thing with an arsenal …
