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Wilmington on DVDs: Inglourious Basterds, The Hangover, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 500 Days of Summer and more…

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Inglourious Basterds (Three and a Half Stars)
U. S.; Quentin Tarantino, 2009 (Universal)

Quentin Tarantino shoots the works in Inglorious Basterds, a wild movie-movie-lover’s blend of WW2 action film pyrotechnics, subtitled art cinema romance, inside-movie allusions of every type and description, grand spaghetti-operatic Sergio Leone stylistics, and a brash Let’s-rewrite-World War 2-and make-it-a-De Palma flick ending so crazy it keeps blowing emotional and technical gaskets as you watch it explode on screen. (more…)

Wilmington on DVDs: Julie and Julia, The Hangover, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 500 Days of Summer and more…

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Julie and Julia (Three Stars)
U. S.; Nora Ephron, 2009 (Sony)

In Julie and Julia, a perky and ambitious young Manhattan writer named Julie Powell, decides to cook all the recipes in Julia Child’s culinary bible “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in the space of a year — and write a blog about it, called Julie and Julia. Can she make it? Can she and her husband Eric (Chris Messina) eat it? Will Julie strike it rich by mining Julia and serving her up on a blog? Most importantly, is this a clicky enough movie subject, in a field where catastrophes, murders and sexual high jinks abound? Well, yes… as long as you have the right recipe and the right people. Especially Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, the movie’s Julia and Julie. (more…)