MCN Weekend Archive for September, 2011
Wilmington on Movies: Shark Night 3D
Shark Night 3D (One Star) U.S.: David R. Ellis, 2011 COMIN’ AT YOU, DUDES! HERE I AM! CHOMP! CHOMP! TEAR! RIP! SCARED YET? YOU WILL BE! YOU WILL BE! AAAAAAAWWW! CHOMP!! Who the Hell are you? I’m the Big Shark in Shark Night 3D! I’m the guy that rips off everybody‘s heads…
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Sholem Aleichem Laughing in the Darkness (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.: Joseph Dorman, 2011 Let me tell you about this fellow Sholem Aleichem, or Solomon Rabinowitz, or Rabinovich, or whatever his name is: the very famous Jewish writer of long ago whom this documentary fellow Joseph Dorman just made the movie about. Yes, I’ve seen…
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Sharks and Spaceships and Debt, OH MY! None of it can get close to The Help, which is showing remarkable legs for yet another week.
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Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com Apollo 18 |15.8|13.3|14.0|14.0|15.0 The Help|14.0|10.2|15.0|15.0|16.5 Shark Night 3-D|15.3|11.0|8.0|10.0|9.5 Colombiana |6.8|4.7|7.0|7.5|8.2 The Debt|6.0|5.6|7.0|9.0|7.0
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The Debt |Yellow|||| Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (limited) |Green||Green|| Green Shark Night 3-D |||||Red Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (NY) |||Green|Green| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy |||Red||Red Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (limited) |Green||||
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (One Star) U.S.: Alex Gregory & Peter Huyck, 2011 I don’t want to come across like a prude, but the new Jason Sudeikis sex comedy A Good Old fashioned Orgy is pretty much a bad, newfangled mess. Try as they might, writer-directors Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck can’t make…
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