Posts Tagged ‘Falling Down’

MW on Movies: Avatar, Modern Times, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Apocalypse Now/Apocalypse Now Redux

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

 

 PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW

Avatar (Three Disc Extended Edition Blu-ray Digital DVD Combo) (Four Stars)
U. S.; James Cameron, 2009 (Fox)

Avatar, James Cameron’s` planet-shaking, moon-rocking, eco-worshipping, dragon-riding new science fiction fantasy epic-and-a-half, may not be a perfect movie. But it’s sure as hell an incredible experience. It‘s a genre-movie knockout, a cinematic mind-blast and a technological marvel whose feats of 3D motion-capture and CGI pyrotechnics, and the spectacular and endlessly imaginative alternate world it creates — set on a distant Alpha Centauri moon called Pandora, where the natives are blue and the zeitgeist is green — all keep blowing you away.
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Wilmington on DVDs: Of Time and the City, El Dorado, Zabriskie Point, and more…

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW

Of Time and the City (Three-and-a-Half Stars)
U. K.; Terence Davies, 2008 (Strand Releasing)

The sometimes mournfully brilliant British independent filmmaker Terence Davies returns to Liverpool, the place of his birth and growing up (more…)