MCN Weekend Archive for September, 2010
Box Office Hell – September 30
This week our pundits predict The Social Network as a solid lock for the #1 slot, while there’s some dissension over whether Let Me In will draw enough box office blood to capture the place position.
Read the full article »Digital Nation: Barry Munday
As red herrings go, it’s tough to beat castration. The title character of Chris D’Arienzo’s truly offbeat comedy, Barry Munday, undergoes just such an operation. It’s required after the father of a promiscuous teenager slams a trumpet into crotch of the two-bit, happy-hour lothario in a movie theater. Poor Barry didn’t even have time to…
Read the full article » 2 Comments »The DVD Wrap: Get Him to the Greek, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, The Thin Red Line, The Law, Ellery Queen … and more
Get Him to the Greek: Blu-ray In Richard Benjamin’s delightful 1982 comedy, My Favorite Year, all junior writer Benjy Stone was required to do was get the famously debauched British actor, Alan Swann, from his New York hotel to a nearby studio, where a popular comedy-variety show (think, “Your Show of Shows”) is being broadcast…
Read the full article » 3 Comments »MW on DVDs: The Killer Inside Me, The Law (La Loi), Palermo or Wolfsburg, Get Him to the Greek … and more
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW The Killer Inside Me (Three Stars) U.S.; Michael Winterbottom, 2010 All these years, ever since it first appeared as a paperback original novel in 1952, a possible movie of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me — the first-person deep-noir tale of a smooth-talking small-town Southern deputy sheriff and murdering bastard…
Read the full article » 3 Comments »Weekend Box Office Report – September 26
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps topped the weekend box office charts with a logy estimate of $19.5 million. The new batch of national releases generally underperformed based on tracking including second place Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga Hoole, which hooted up $16.3 million.
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The weekend estimates have Wall Street 2 firmly in the lead, with Legend of the Guardians and The Town battling it out for second place …
Read the full article »Friday Estimates – September 25
At this point in the weekend, Wall Street 2 and Gordon Gekko appear to be sitting on the top of the heap, with the owls of Legend of the Guardians flagging behind The Town in third place …
Read the full article »Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Up until the last ten minutes or so, I was really digging Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. It’s not that we needed to revisit Gordon “Greed is Good” Gekko (Michael Douglas), that classically evil rich white bad guy who preceded (some might say, foretold) all those rich (mostly) white (mostly) bad guys who built…
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps|Yellow|Yellow|Green|Yellow|Green Legend of the Guardians|||Yellow||Yellow You Again|Red|Yellow||| You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger |Green|Yellow|Yellow|Yellow| Waiting for ‘Superman’|Green|Yellow||| Jack Goes Boating||Yellow|Green|| Enter the Void|||Green||Yellow Howl|||Green||Green Buried |Green||Green||Yellow
Read the full article »Box Office Hell -September 23
This week, most of our box office pundits see Gordon Gekko and Wall Street 2 rising to the top, while the owls of Legend of the Guardians flap into the place position …
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, and Our Hitler
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.; Oliver Stone, 2010 Oliver Stone’s new movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps returns us to one of Stone’s great subjects of the 1980s: the glamour and corruption of the American financial markets. A sequel to Stone‘s 1987 Wall Street, this show plunges us back…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Review – The Social Network (98.75% Spoiler-Free)
The Social Network is one of the greatest films not to quite make it to Great… perhaps as intended.
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Woody Allen‘s latest effort, You Will Find a Tall Dark Stranger, finds the director returning to Europe — the fertile ground which, in recent years, has served as the setting for the excellent Match Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the fair-to-middling Cassandra’s Dream and Scoop. This time around he’s back in London with a…
Read the full article »DVD Wrap: Robin Hood, (Untitled), Good, Experiment, Stripped Naked … and more
Just Wright Queen Latifah wants us to think of Just Wright as a modern version of Cinderella, this time staged against a backdrop of the National Basketball Association. It’s not a bad comparison, really, even if director Sanaa Hamri and writer Michael Elliot don’t seem particularly interested in repeating any of that classic fairytale’s basic…
Read the full article »DVD Geek: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg
An excellent documentary about the talented comedienne, Gertrude Berg, who wrote, produced and starred in her own comedy series, first on radio and then very early on television, essentially inventing the family situation comedy for TV in the process, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, has been released by Docuramafilms and New Video.
Read the full article » 3 Comments »Wilmington on DVDs: Robin Hood, Charade, Playing for Time, Forbidden Planet, The Secret Behind Their Eyes … and more
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Robin Hood (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.; Ridley Scott, 2010 “To live outside the law, you must be honest,“ Bob Dylan once sang (in “”Absolutely Sweet Marie,“ from “Blonde on Blonde“). And that’s the credo that permeates most of the many, many screen incarnations of Robin Hood of Sherwood…
Read the full article »Weekend Box Office Report – September 19
Though The Town was clearly out-pacing its competition in advance ticket sales, tracking pundits pegged the latter day Ridgemont High antics of Easy A as the box office leader for the frame. Devil was expected to be very close behind the duo.
Read the full article »Weekend Estimates – September 19
The Town| 23.6|New| 23.6 Easy A| 18|New | 18 Devil| 12.5| New| 12.5 Resident Evil: Afterlife| 9.9| -63%| 43.8 Alpha and Omega| 9.2|New|9.2 Takers|3|-48%|52.3 The American| 2.7| -52%| 32.8 Inception| 2 | -29%| 285.1 The Other Guys| 1.9| -43%| 115.3 Eat Pray Love| 1.6| -44%| 77.6
Read the full article »Friday Estimates – September 17
The Town appears to be a bit ahead of Easy A as we head into Saturday, with Devil and Resident Evil: Afterlife battling it out for the show position.
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The Town|Green||||Green Alpha and Omega||||| Devil||||| Easy A |Green||||Yellow The Virginity Hit||||| Catfish|||||Green Never Let Me Go|Green|||Green|
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