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Saturday, January 26, 2013

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 …

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Movie Reviews: The Impossible, Texas Chainsaw 3-D, Les Miserables and Django Unchained

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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. - - - - -  The Impossible "The Impossible is one of the most emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory -- and certainly one of the most frightening in its epic re-creation of the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami." The Hollywood Reporter. Full Review. "Put a staggering accomplishment called The Impossible, from Spanish director J. A. Bayona, at the top of the season's must-see list." Rex Reed of New York Observer. Full Review. "Here is a searing film of human tragedy." Roger Ebert from of Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review. - - - - -  Django Unchained "A sharp shock of a film in an Awards season very full of movies so noble they become immobile. It's wildly…

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