Friday, March 1, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale. Phantom One sentence plot: Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has recently been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 83 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 20 Reviews: "To sustain tension, you need the kind of claustrophobic camera movement, high-strung talk and gritty character development that are badly needed in any submarine movie and are sadly missing in Phantom." New York Observer Full Review "The potential for screw-tightening suspense …
Friday, February 22, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale. Snitch One sentence plot: In the fast-paced action thriller 'Snitch', Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 96 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 67 Reviews: "'Snitch' is more of a dramatic thriller than an action movie, and director Ric Roman Waugh fills it with close-ups, dark interiors and tense faces." Seattle Times Full Review "This movie executes two missions: A) to …
Friday, February 15, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale. And if you are a movie fan and want to be a blogger critic, click on to this link to find out how you can write for Patch. Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Sign up for our free email newsletter A Good Day to Die Hard One sentence plot: John McClane (Bruce Willis) heads to Russia in this fifth installment of the Die Hard film series. Skip Woods (The A-Team) provides the script, with Max Payne's John Moore directing. Jai Courtney co-stars as Willis' son. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 82 Rotten Tomatoes critic score…
Friday, February 1, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone andRottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at Marcus Theatre and Carmike Cinemas. Bullet to the Head One sentence plot: A hitman (Sylvester Stallone) and a New York cop team up to get revenge on the killers who murdered their old partners in this action thriller from veteran tough-guy filmmaker Walter Hill Moviefone viewer score: 55 Reviews: "Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-'80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (48 HRS., The Warriors) join forces for a hard-hitting exercise in beefy, brainless fun with the New Orleans-set actioner Bullet to the Head…
Friday, January 25, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at Marcus Theatre and Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale. Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Sign up for our newsletter Parker One sentence plot: Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. Moviefone viewer score: 85 Reviews: "How does Hackford fall so far off the rails with the pedestrian crime thriller Parker, based on the 19th book in the Parker series by the late Donald E. Westlake (no slouch himself, with scripting credits on The Grifters…
Friday, January 18, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at the Marcus Theatre and Carmike Cinemas. Mama One sentence plot: Guillermo del Toro presents 'Mama', a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. Moviefone viewer score: 84 Reviews: "What's under the bed? Who's behind that door? What's making those vaguely satanic noises? These and other thought-provoking questions are entertained in Mama, a visually polished but overly repetitive chiller." Variety. Full Review "It never hits the high notes of Mr. del Toro's own films or …
Saturday, January 12, 2013
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Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here's Patch's roundup of movies playing at the Marcus Theatre and Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale: New this weekend: Gangster Squad One sentence plot: Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and--if he has his way--every wire bet placed west of Chicago. Moviefone viewer score: 90 Moviefone critic score: 43 Reviews: “The cops play things as dirty as the crooks in Gangster Squad, an impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
A special screening of "Janeane from Des Moines" is planned for Tuesday, Oct. 23 at Carmike Cinemas. The film follows an Iowa housewife who seeks answers from GOP presidential candidates on the campaign trail.
An award-winning filmmaker who is on a three-week tour is bringing her movie to Oakdale to give a different perspective on the GOP campaign trail leading up to the Iowa Caucuses. Janeane from Des Moines will have a special screening at Carmike Cinemas in Oakdale on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Written and directed by Grace Lee, the drama is co-written with and stars Jane Edith Wilson as Janeane, a conservative Iowa housewife who seeks answers from the Republican presidential candidates during the actual 2012 Iowa Caucuses. Wilson has appeared in several popular TV shows, including ER, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld. Lee described the film to Oakdale Patch as a "mix of fiction and non-fiction." The film revolves around the fictional character, …
Monday, October 1, 2012
The acquisition was announced Monday. The transition will take place before the end of the year.
Carmike Cinemas just extended its reach. According to a recent press release, Rave Cinemas was acquired by the Carmike Cinema family of theaters late Monday morning. The acquisition was part of a larger purchase agreement that included 16 theaters in seven states. The release states the Carmike Theater company paid $19 million in cash and assumed $100.4 million in lease obligations as part of the agreement. "The addition of these 16 state-of-the-art theatres and 251 screens from Rave is a key, opportunistic development," said Carmike Cinema president and CEO David Passman. "We also look forward to enthusiastically welcoming the Rave associates at these theatres to the growing Carmike family." According to recent articles, Carmike shows …
Janeane from Des Moines
6:51 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
Hello! This screening is officially confirmed! We'd like to extend an invitation to anyone who might be financially challenged and interested in attending -- as we have a few extra tickets. Please email janeanemovie@gmail.com and let us know who you are and your interest in Janeane from Des Moines! Thanks! Grace Lee & Jane Edith Wilson, filmmakers more ›