Saturday, May 25, 2013
'Fast & Furious 6' is playing this weekend in Roswell.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are back for another wild ride in "Fast & Furious 6." "Fast & Furious 6" is rated PG-13 and runs two hours and 10 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: Somehow [Director Justin] Lin just keeps topping himself, with bigger fights, badder villains, bolder chases. And while [Vin] Diesel was born to make these movies, his pit crew has grown into a satisfyingly connected team. — Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News Big dumb action movies are a dime a dozen each summer. But really good big dumb action movies — think Predator, Speed, andIndependence Day — are rare indeed. So…
One critic writes about the title, "Not only is it generic-sounding and Google-unfriendly, it’s also one of the last words most viewers would use to describe the film."
"Epic" is playing this weekend at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. The premise, courtesy of the film's official website: "Epic" is a 3D CG adventure comedy that reveals a fantastical world unlike any other. From the creators of "Ice Age" and "Rio," "Epic" tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world ... and ours. Here's what critics are saying: "Epic" is rated PG …
Friday, May 24, 2013
'The Hangover Part III' is playing this weekend in Roswell.
The Wolfpack is back in the place it all began. "The Hangover Part III" is rated R and runs one hour and 40 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: Slow, sentimental and somewhat sedated, the third "Hangover" movie isn't so much exhausted of outrageous "Oh no, they didn't!" ideas as it is spent of energy. And they knew it too. — Roger Moore, Chicago Tribune This sequel makes a major tactical error by focusing excessively on the most outlandish — and least comical— character from the previous films. It's more a road movie with action elements than a comedy, and the debauchery of the first two films …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Mixed reviews on J.J. Abrams latest Star Trek epic, with at least one critic raving about the film.
See the new movie, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill in Roswell this weekend. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. The premise, courtesy of the film's official website: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and…
Saturday, May 11, 2013
'Great Gatsby' is playing this weekend in Roswell.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Baz Luhrmann's take on "The Great Gatsby," which is at times more style than substance – just like like the novel's main character himself – say some critics. "The Great Gatsby" is rated PG-13 and runs two hours and 22 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what else the critics are saying: Baz Luhrmann’s new film version of The Great Gatsby is stylish, slick, funny and entertaining—a bit detached at points, a bit overblown at others. That should be all that matters. — Jeremy Mathews, Paste Magazine Just because a film looks like it was dipped in 18-karat gold doesn’t mean it’s rich in quality. Take …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
'Iron Man 3' is playing this weekend in Roswell.
Robert Downey Jr. and gang are back for the third "Iron Man" installment. "Iron Man 3" is rated PG-13 and runs two hours and 20 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: This weekend, the summer movie season kicks off in spectacular fashion . . . with Disney and Marvel's "Iron Man 3." The third film in the series and the fourth featuring national treasure Robert Downey Jr. as genius billionaire playboy-philanthropist Tony Stark (after last summer's superhero free-for-all "The Avengers"), it raises the stakes considerably, to the point that, should RDJ never want to put on the robotic suit again, the …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Here's what the critics are saying.
A group of bodybuilding criminals fumble their way through mayhem in this "visual extravaganza." Pain & Gain is rated R and runs 129 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: "This weekend, "Pain and Gain" opens nationwide, for both muscle-building juiceheads and those of us who try to make it to yoga a couple of times a week because we want to age gracefully, like Helen Mirren. The true-life story of kidnapping and murder stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a pair of criminals who were part of what was known as the Sun Gym gang –- bodybuilders whose criminal activity eventually …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Oblivion opens this weekend.
Tom Cruise leads a cast of well known actors in his latest thriller, out this weekend. Oblivion is rated PG-13 and runs 126 minutes. It is now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: "The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance against grandeur...Which brings us to Tom Cruise, the not-necessarily-good news. However engaging its end-times mysteries, Oblivion is still a Tom Cruise movie." Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice. Full Review "A moderately clever dystopian mindbender with a gratifying human pulse, despite some …
Saturday, April 13, 2013
"42" tells the story of two men, the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey.
Catch 42 this weekend at Studio Movie Grill or Aurora Cineplex. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. The film is rated PG-13 and run 128 minutes. One sentence plot: "42" tells the story of two men-the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey-whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 97 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68 Reviews: "It's a sports film non-sports fans can love; it's a family film that never preaches; it's a biopic that also takes in the world and people around its subject." New York Daily News Full Review "'42' can feel incomplete (the bland music and the filmmaker's obsession …
Friday, April 5, 2013
This is a film for you if you're looking for "a geyser of gore," critics say.
Take a young woman with a heroin addiction. Add two friends. Place them in an isolated cabin in the woods. Add her older brother. Then throw in a book of evil spells, malevolent sprits, a basement and trees that could be happy working for Saruman. Put the camera close to the ground and start killing everyone, slathering everything in guts and gore. Voila! You've created Evil Dead, the 2013 remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic. "Evil Dead" is rated PG-13 and runs 91 minutes. It's now playing at Aurora Cineplex and Studio Movie Grill. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click the links above. Here's what the critics are saying: When it was first announced that a remake of Sam Raimi’s classic 80s horror film was being …
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