MCN Weekend Reviews

Wilmington on Movies: Fast and Furious 6

Fast And Furious 6

If you’re looking for a slam-bang movie full of spectacular car chases and mindbending action, Fast & Furious 6—the latest installment in the tire-burning, dumbfounding Fast & Furious series—is obviously your pedal-to-the-metal hot ticket. It‘s the kind of movie where the only logical (or illogical) response from longtime fans may be ‘”Wowie,“ “yowie“ or “zowie.” But if you’re looking for a movie that makes a lick of sense, or has a line of dialogue worth repeating, or a character or situation that isn’t either a howling cliché or a howling absurdity—take your pick—you’ve come to the wrong pit stop.

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Wilmington on DVDs: Jubal, 3:10 to Yuma, Safe Haven, Parker

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    Jubal (Also Blu-ray) (Three Stars) U.S.: Delmer Daves, 1956 (Criterion Collection) My grandma Marie Tulane, who was born in Sweden and died in Wisconsin, often said she liked Westerns because the scenery was so beautiful. I think she would have liked Delmer Daves’ 1956 Jubal, starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine and Rod Steiger…

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Wilmington on DVDs: Mrs. Miniver

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Mrs. Miniver will probably never again look as good, or as inspiring, as it did in 1942, when it helped solidify the Anglo-American wartime bond. It’s a typically polished Wyler production, with pristine-looking black-and white cinematography by ace Joseph Ruttenberg.

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Wilmington on Movies: Star Trek Into Darkness

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Wilmington on DVDs: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Wilmington on DVDs: Starlet; Cloud Atlas

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DVD Geek: Red Hook Summer

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  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Iron Man 3 19.3 4253 -71% 231.7
The Great Gatsby 19.2 3535 NEW 19.2
Pain & Gain 1.3 3303 -45% 37.9
Peeples 1.2 2041 NEW 1.2
42 1.1 2930 -39% 81.2
Oblivion 1 2770 -41% 78.8
The Croods 0.7 2650 -29% 170.3
Mud 0.6 854 -2% 6.6
The Big Wedding 0.55 2298 -54% 16.3
Oz the Great and Powerful 0.2 774 -70% 229.4
Also Debuting
Go Goa Gone 49,200 92
Thadaka 21,400 38
No One Lives 17,800 53
Aftershock 13,700 110
Soodhu Kavvum 6,800 7
Stories We Tell 5,400 2
The Girls in the Band 5,100 2
Venus and Serena 2,900 4
One Track Heart: Krishna Das 2,400 1
The Manor 2,350 1
Sightseers 1,900 2
Sukumarudu 1,300 16
He's Way More Famous Than You 1,250 4
How Sweet It Is 1,250 3
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
The Hunger Games 153.6 (37,130) NEW 153.6
21 Jump Street 20.4 (6,550) -44% 70.2
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 13.0 (3,540) -43% 177.3
John Carter 5.0 (1,570) -63% 62.4
Act of Valor 2.0 (910) -46% 65.9
A Thousand Words 1.9 (1,050) -40% 14.9
Project X 1.9 (920) -53% 51.7
Safe House 1.4 (1,020) -50% 122.5
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 1.3 (1,000) -44% 97.1
Casa de mi Padre 1.0 (2,170) -55% 3.9