MCN Weekend Archive for January, 2013
Wilmington on DVDs: People on Sunday
PICK OF THE WEEK: CLASSIC PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Menschen am Sonntag) (Four Stars) Germany: Robert Siodmak & Edgar Ulmer, 1930 (Criterion Collection) I. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER When you’re young and smart and talented, you can also be a little cocky — brash beyond your years. You’ll make it some day, for sure. There’s…
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PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW FRANKENWEENIE (Also Four Disc Blu-ray/3D/DVD/Digital Copy & Two Disc Blu-ray/DVD) (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.: Tim Burton, 2012 (Buena Vista) Two of the best things Tim Burton ever did were a couple of black and white cartoons he made for Disney back in the early ‘80s, when he was…
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Frankenweenie, House at End of Street, Samsara, Dredd, Lapland Odyssey, SEAL Team Six, Sleep Tight, Grand Hotel and more…
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They simply can’t put a stake through the heart of Texas Chainsaw. The newest incarnation of the 1974 ‘Saw was top of weekend movie sales with an estimated $23.1 million debut. Chainsaw was also the only new national release, although several late-year award qualifiers also expanded to national exposure. Eco-themed drama Promised Land failed to ignite with the addition of 1,650 screens and a gross of $4.2 million. More promising though hardly explosive was The Impossible with $2.8 million from 572 locations. Also expanding from exclusive to limited status was Oscar-touted Zero Dark Thirty with a $2.7 million gross from just 60 playdates. The flip side was the total collapse of Not Fade Away that eked out a quiet $278,000 at 565 garages.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D dismembers all this awards season seriousness and takes the top slot with a double-digit Friday. And Django Unchained stays strong while The Hobbit takes its biggest hit as it passes $250 million domestic. Les Miserables‘ revolution is losing steam, though it will hit $100m this weekend. And Lincoln breaks the $140m tape.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Rosemary’s Baby
Rosemary’s Baby is shot with claustrophobic intensity and voluptuous eeriness by Polanski and his gifted cinematographer William Fraker (who also photographed Bullitt), is a great-looking, beautifully-acted, very scary show that probably affects you even if you don’t believe in the devil (as I don’t).
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PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW LOOPER (Three Stars) U.S.: Rian Johnson, 2012 (Sony) The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. Fredric Brown (The shortest short story ever written: Knock) Rian Johnson’s Looper is a classy time-travel alternate-universe science fiction movie, tricky as a con…
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