New In Theaters: ‘gangster Squad,’ ‘zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘a Haunted House’

Logan Falk, Movies With Butter
Fri, 01/11/2013 - 10:10am

This week saw a trio of new releases open this Friday; they’re a diverse bunch, consisting of a crime period piece, an action-drama thriller, and a horror film parody. As you could imagine, a variety of releases unfortunately means a variety of critical reception, and of expected profits for the weekend. One of these releases is Gangster Squad, a noir-esque film set in 1949 about a mobster by name of Mickey Cohen, and the group of renegade cops who plan to take down his criminal empire. read more

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