MCN Originals Archive for August, 2011
Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: Classic and Blu-ray. The Manchurian Candidate
(Blu-ray) (Four Stars) U.S.; John Frankenheimer, 1962 (MGM/20th Century Fox) I. Manchuria It’s one of the most brilliantly scary scenes in any American movie. It’s a shocker, a mind-bender. Bewildering. Exhilarating. And, in the end, as icily terrifying as a bullet aimed at your brain. Ka-pow! “Korea, 1952,”…
Read the full article »6 Weeks To TIFF: a 20 weeks to oscar prequel (part 2 of 3)
There are 10 films heading to Toronto for the film festival without US distribution, but with a shot of being Oscar players if expectations hold and if they can find the right domestic distribution partners. Lots of big name directors, writers, and actors on the Wheel of Movie Fortune.
Read the full article » 11 Comments »The DVD Wrapup: Rio, Exporting Raymond, Outside the Law, Streetwalkin’, The Perfect Game, Stake Land, John Pinette …
Rio: Blu-ray It’s been nearly 70 years since Walt Disney and a team of animators toured South America, looking for new ideas and acting as cultural ambassadors to a continent our State Department felt was ripe for exploitation by Adolph Hitler. Among the souvenirs they brought home was an anthropomorphized cartoon parrot, Jose Carioca, who…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »6 Weeks To TIFF: a 20 weeks to oscar prequel (part 1 of 3)
Before diving into a full Oscar column and 1st set of charts, a quick look at 15 titles that will be coming to TIFF without US distribution, but will be getting a LOT of attention nonetheless. First, the HIGH profile titles that are not likely to be on Oscar charts this year…
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Rio (Three Stars) U.S.: Carlos Saldanha, 2011 (20th Century Fox) Rio is a big, coruscatingly colorful feature-cartoon love-letter to Rio de Janeiro from Brazilian director/writer Carlos Saldanha (director and co-director on the Ice Age movies) — and it’s full of spectacular computer-cartoon images of Saldanha’s legendar city of samba, aswarm with funny animals acting wild and…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Wilmington on Movies: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
“Crazy, Stupid, Love.” (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.: Glenn Ficara & John Requa, 2011 1. Crazy, Crazy, Stupid, Love. That’s the name of the new Steve Carell-Ryan Gosling-Julianne Moore romantic comedy, from the directorial team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You, Phillip Morris), and the title actually does consist of those three…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »DP/30 Sneak Peek: Madoff Chaser, Harry Markopolos, On The American Debt
He’s mad as heck and he’s not sure how much longer we can take it. The man who figured out what Bernie Madoff was up to discusses how he sees the discussion of our national debt.
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