MCN Weekend Archive for February, 2011
Weekend Estimates — February 6
It’s Super Bowl Sunday! As the Packers and Steelers gear up to go head-to-head, it’s a battle of the newcomers at the box office, with The Roommate leading the Sanctum by a touchdown. In other action, The King’s Speech and No Strings Attached are virtually tied for third and fourth position. Now that you’ve got your box office fix, you can focus on Super Bowl Sunday — or whatever you’re doing to avoid watching the big game.
Read the full article »Friday Estimates — February 5
This weekend it’s all about digging out of snowstorms and the Packers and Steelers, who are playing in some big game everyone seems to be excited about. Nonetheless, a few folks ventured out, as The Roommate is leading Sanctum on a boring box office weekend. Rom-com No Strings Attached should continue to garner some bank from football widows (or widowers, let’s not be gender-ist). The King’s Speech, now leading the Oscar pack, continues to perform best among awards contenders.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Sanctum, The Mechanic and Inspector Bellamy
Sanctum (One and a Half Stars) U.S./Australian: Alister Grierson, 2011 In Sanctum, a terrible movie shot in an amazing natural wonder, six hapless characters/explorers, mostly Australian, are trapped in the Esa-Ala caves of Papua, New Guinea. Those Esa-Ala caves, at least, are really something. One of the world‘s largest underground cave systems, they’re captured here…
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Box Office Hell — February 3
No one’s anticipating a box office touchdown this Superbowl weekend, as a couple of newcomers vie for the top of a lackluster heap. Oscar front-runner The King’s Speech and No Strings Attached, with its chick appeal, stand to benefit most from those wishing to escape bowl game craziness.
Read the full article »The DVD Wrap: Welcome to the Rileys, Conviction, No Tomorrow, A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Let Me In and more …
Welcome to the Rileys: Blu-ray As yet another Sundance festival sails slowly into the sunset, swag bags stowed safely below deck, it’s worth recalling the large number of films that seemed destined for greatness in the rarified air of Park City, but lost traction at sea level. Can’t count that high, you say? For indie…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »MW on DVDs: Let Me In, Alice in Wonderland, Conviction, and Never Let Me Go
CO-PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Let Me In (Three Stars) U. S.; Matt Reeves, 2010 (Anchor Bay) Matt Reeves’ American remake of the widely praised Swedish kid-vampire movie Let the Right One In — its title now shortened to Let Me In — is not a bad movie, as modern vampire movies go. It’s not…
Read the full article »
