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Mike Wilmington

Wilmington By Mike WilmingtonWilmington@moviecitynews.com

Wilmington on Movies: Knight and Day and Wild Grass

Knight and Day (Three Stars) U.S.; James Mangold, 2010 Knight and Day doesn’t make much sense, but do we really want it to?

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Wilmington on Movies: Toy Story 3, The Killer Inside Me, The A-Team and Marmaduke

Toy Story 3 (Four Stars) U. S. Lee Unkrich, 2010 Toy Story 3 is just what we’ve come to expect from Pixar: a brilliantly conceived and immaculately animated knockout of a family show

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Wilmington: A Tale of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities So said Charles Dickens, to describe the changing worlds of staid England and turbulent France, of the two cities London and Paris, during French revolutionary times — in his great melodramatic novel A Tale of Two…

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Wilmington on Movies: Get Him to the Greek and Breathless

Get Him to The Greek (Three Stars) U.S.; Nicholas Stoller, 2010 Get Him to the Greek — the latest from the Judd Apatow juggernaut

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 Sunday, May 19 2013 12:52:48

“Two hours in the labyrinth of Paramount’s Avarice…. It was my first–and my last–IMAX venture. Haven’t been to a 3-D movie in years, and it’s bye-bye to THAT scathing visual transgression for the remainder of MY lifetime… It was an unceasing, unrelenting, take-no-audience-prisoners audial and visual back-alley mugging for two hours… I have been beaten up many times; I know what it feels like: this was a two-hour assault. I weep, as Jesus wept, for the generations that will grow up thinking this is what it means to “go to the movies.” I am near-on 79, and I [understand] that this is a generational opinion, but I do not think any sensible person not of a tot age where videogame… overkill is pro forma, could confuse the IMAX “experience” with a Saturday matinee outing. The term “author” as regards Summer Blockbuster movies, is not only moot, it is Urdu. Mountains heave mightily, and give birth to volcanic ant-hills.”
Harlan Ellison Takes In Star Trek: Into Darkness

“One of the things I wish I could do in my life would be to watch this film through somebody else’s eyes. I just can’t. I still see it as just a giant mess, and other people are seeing that it has a shape. That’s really exciting, because I still have a hard time seeing it clearly.”
~ Sarah Polley’s Greatest Wish About Stories We Tell