Traverse City Record-Eagle

Arts & Entertainment

February 3, 2012

This week at the movies: 02/03/2012

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New this week

Big Miracle: In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend — a Greenpeace volunteer — on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Rated PG for language. (GT10)

Chronicle: Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Rated PG-13 for intense action and violence, thematic material, some language, sexual content and teen drinking. (GT10)

The Woman in Black: A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals. Rated PG-13 for thematic material and violence/disturbing images. (HOR)

 

Showing locally

 

Beauty and the Beast: Reissued Disney movie. Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince. Rated G. (GT10)

Contraband: To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills. Rated R for violence, pervasive language and brief drug use. (HOR)

The Descendants: A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident. Rated R for language including some sexual references. (BAY, HOR)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Rated PG-13 for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language. (ST)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. Rated R for brutal violent content including rape and torture, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, and language. (HOR)

The Grey: In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. Rated R for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language. (GT10)

Haywire: A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission. Rated R for some violence. (HOR)

Hugo: Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. Rated PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking. (HOR)

The Iron Lady: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. Rated PG-13 for some violent images and brief nudity. (HOR)

Joyful Noise: G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition. Rated PG-13 for some language including a sexual reference. (GT10)

Man on a Ledge: As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion. Rated PG-13 for violence and brief strong language. (HOR)

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol: The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence. (HOR, ER)

One for the Money: Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past. Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual references and language, some drug material and partial nudity. (GT10)

Red Tails: A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. Rated PG-13 for some sequences of war violence. (GT10)

Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some drug material. (HOR)

Underworld Awakening: When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for some language. ((HOR)

War Horse: Young Albert enlists to service in WWI after his beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on. (GT10, GAR)

We Bought a Zoo: Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. Rated PG for language and some thematic elements. (GT10)

Information is based on data available at press time from Traverse City area Carmike theaters (GT10, HOR), the State Theatre (ST), the Garden Theatre in Frankfort, (GAR) the Elk Rapids Cinema (ER), Cherry Bowl DriveIn (CB) and The Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay (BAY).

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