Saturday, January 19, 2013
Here's the scoop on the latest from Hollywood.
Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Check showtimes at the Great Escape Theater, Gravois Bluffs. - - - - - 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 …
Sunday, January 13, 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 …
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters across St. Louis.
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 …
Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters across St. Louis.
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…
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Find showtimes, reviews and ratings for movies showing Christmas Day and beyond at the Great Escape Theater at Gravois Bluffs.
Check the theater's website for a complete listing of movies. Les Miserables, PG13, 159 min "Stirring and striking, Hooper's epic musical won't be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen's cinematography is stunning and Hathaway's Oscar is guaranteed." Neil Smith of Total Film. Full Review. 11:30 a.m. 3:15, 7, 10:30 "Russell Crowe's pained vocal stylings (they sound more like barks) as relentless Inspector Javert can be forgiven after hearing Hugh Jackman's old-pro fluidity in the central role of Jean Valjean, hiding a criminal past." Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out New York. Full Review. Django Unchained, R, 165 min "Django Unchained also has the pure, almost meaningless excitement which I found sorely lacking in Tarantino's previous …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Jilly's Cafe and Steakhouse in High Ridge and the Great Escape Theater in Fenton were two local favorites of Patch readers all over St. Louis who voted for everything from favorite beauty salon to best beer garden to restaurant with the friendliest staff.
No doubt they're tough questions. Settling upon St. Louis' best thin-crust pizza is like naming your favorite child. The best coffee house? Where do you start? Pulled pork sandwich? How about all of them? But readers could only choose one. And they chose wisely. Patch on Wednesday announced the winners of its Readers' Choice 2012 competition. Readers helped nominate local businesses and organizations for select categories then voted on them over a five-week period. When all was said and done, Imo's Pizza, the chain that has more than 100 locations in the St. Louis-area, was deemed best St. Louis-style pizza. The provel-loving restaurant beat out the likes of some of the best pizza parlors in town, such as Pi Pizzeria, Dewey's Pizza, …
