MCN Originals Archive for August, 2013
Wilmington on Movies: Planes
In movies, especially movies intended for kids, originality isn’t everything. Adults are sometimes another story.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Guys and Dolls
If there was ever a part Frank Sinatra was born to play—and sing—it was Sky Masterson, the lady-killing, dice-rolling, high-living gambler who is the main man and big shooter of the classic New York-Broadway musical (and the Hollywood movie made from it) Guys and Dolls.
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup
To the Wonder, Oblivion, Magic Magic, Eddie, Swamp Thing, Thick of It, West of Memphis, Top Gear USA… And more.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Oblivion
Dunes out of Lawrence of Arabia, those cloud castles out of Up, those moody dreamy interiors out of Solaris: The way Oblivion looks is one of its main attractions.
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Firepower prevailed as 2 Guns shot to the top of session movie going with an estimated $27.3 million. The frame’s other national newcomer was infamous blue man group The Smurfs 2, slotting third overall with $18 million. There was no significant activity in the niches but exclusive debuts included a potent bow of $184,000 for well-reviewed coming-of-ager The Spectacular Now at four sites. Flying solo in Manhattan was the Lindsay Lohan vehicle The Canyons with $17,100.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Heaven’s Gate (Director’s Cut)
The restored director’s cut of Heaven’s Gate has been released theatrically in the U.K.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Blue Jasmine
Perhaps that’s because the performance is a kind of culmination of Allen’s attitudes toward the moneyed white culture Jasmine represents. Jasmine lives what seems a charmed life as a member of the Manhattan financial social elite whose vagaries Allen loves to have fun with — but then finds herself hurled into the chaos of the 2008 financial collapse, and turning into Woody’s version of Blanche DuBois, Tennessee Williams’ lady on the edge, wandering, desperate, talking to herself, at the end of the line.
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Washington and Wahlberg wallop a Wolverine and a welter of wee blue ones.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: 2 Guns
It’s at the service of one of those stories that begins to crumble and fall apart when you start thinking about it. That’s okay if you‘re up for the ride. You can turn off your brain for most of the show, and have a fairly good time—even if, when you walk out afterwards, the story has gone up in flames.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Tristana; Mamma Mia! The Movie; Trance
Tristana is a masterpiece, but it’s also a grimmer, sadder, more psychologically wounding film than Belle de Jour, which was regarded as a great art film turn-on of the 1960s, during the somewhat frenzied romps of Sexual Revolution. But, if audiences thrilled to the whorehouse fear, desire and wayward beauty of Belle de Jour, what were they to make of Tristana, in which the most memorable erotic encounter occurs when a one-legged woman exposes herself to the lustful deaf-mute son of her guardian-husband’s house servant?
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