Saturday, January 19, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Wildwood and St. Louis, MO.
Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. - - - - - Broken City Mark Glass, Patch blogger: This urban political/crime drama is surprisingly well-scripted, with more than its fair share of twists and turns. Mark Wahlberg plays a hardnosed New York cop, who is stripped of his badge early in the film over a controversy about his shooting an alleged rapist. Although the mayor (Russell Crowe) understands and approves of what he did, public outrage over what may have been excessive force compels The Brass to throw Wahlberg under the proverbial bus. Brian Tucker’s script is particularly impressive for a rookie. Director Allen Hughes’ experience in the genre helps, with the pacing and mostly non-glamorous settings well…
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Movie reviews and movie times for theaters across St. Louis. Movie include Gangster Squad, Zero Dark Thirty, The Impossible and Promised Land among others.
Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. - - - - - Gangster Squad Review from Patch blogger Mark Glass: Movie Review: Gangster Squad Austin Chronicle: "Despite the unrelenting action and the terrific cast, Gangster Squad comes up more scattered than successful." Austin Chronicle. Full Review A.O. Scott of The New York Times: "His (Fleischer) first feature, "Zombieland," was a half-witty genre parody. This one might be described as genre zombie-ism: the hysterical, brainless animation of dead clichés reduced to purposeless, compulsive killing. Too self-serious to succeed as pastiche, it has no reason for being beyond the parasitic urge to feed on the memories of other, better movies." Full Review Ann Hornaday …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Hitting the theaters this holiday weekend? See which ones are having opening day between now and Christmas.
The box office is busy this time of year, and several new films are coming to theaters for the Christmas holiday weekend. Patch has a roundup of the movies opening in theaters Dec. 21-25. Before you go out, buy tickets and popcorn, check here to see which movies are best for you, your friends or family. Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes.com and Flixster. This is 40 Release date: December 21 MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, crude humor, pervasive language and some drug material Genre: Comedy Run time: 2 hours, 14 minutes Starring: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow Rotten Tomatoes rating: 62% of critics liked it Zero Dark Thirty Release date: December 21 MPAA Rating: R for for strong violence including brutal disturbing …
