Wilmington By Mike WilmingtonWilmington@moviecitynews.com
Wilmington on DVDs: The Rest. Season of the Witch, Hobo With a Shotgun, The Fearmakers, Rope of Sand, The Cocoanuts
Season of the Witch (Two and a Half Stars) U.S., Dominic Sena, 2011 ( 20th Century Fox ) It’s good, or at least encouraging, to find a big movie super production that has at least a little literary-dramatic ambition — and the new Nicolas Cage show, Season of the Witch, certainly has some of that. Produced to a…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: Classic and Blu-ray. Three by Pixar: Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up
PICK OF THE WEEK: CLASSIC AND BLU-RAY Three from Pixar (Blu-ray) For the past few years, the jewels in the Disney Studio’s animated crown have usually been the Pixar movies: those wittily written, brilliantly characterized, wildly popular, critically hailed (well, as long as it’s not Cars 2) feature-length gems from Disney head John Lasseter’s brainchild…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: New. 13 Assassins
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW “13 Assassins” (Three and a Half Stars) Japan: Takashi Miike, 2010 (Magnolia) 13 Assassins. The sons of the Seven Samurai? In an abandoned mountain village that they have turned into a huge, ingenious booby trap, 13 samurai, or free-lance fighters, assembled by an idealistic master warrior, await their enemy:…
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: The Makioka Sisters; Live Today, Die Tomorrow; Onibaba
The Makioka Sisters (Four Stars) Japan: Kon Ichikawa, 1983 Kon Ichikawa’s 1983 film of the famous ‘40s novel by Junichiro Tanizaki — with its subtle and exquisite dramatization of a crucial period in the lives of four beautiful, upper-class sisters living in Osaka — is one of the great Japanese films, and perhaps one…
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Larry Crowne
“Larry Crowne” (Two and a Half Stars) U.S.: Tom Hanks, 2011 In Larry Crowne — a romantic comedy with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts that should have been a timely, funny show, but isn’t — Hanks plays the title character, an up-from-working-class managerial guy suddenly cut adrift from his life, and forced to try to find…
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