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DVD Geek: Godzilla

Godzilla

No other land or people have suffered from the effects of manmade atomic destruction as Japan has, and the monster, Godzilla, is a metaphor of that destruction that has proven to be as far reaching and enduring in its truthfulness as the creature itself has been in popularity. Even America, which is as symbiotically entwined with Japan’s nuclear catastrophes as the American version of the film is with the Japanese version, has embraced the subliminal power that is conveyed by the rubber-suited monster, and its later, upgraded special effect iterations, raging across the captivating miniature landscapes and cityscapes.

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Wilmington on Movies: The Woman in Black: Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens

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So, at least we can go to a horror movie where we don’t have to watch more mock home movie or surveillance camera photography of monstrous stuff, or kibitz on teen/20 actors being slaughtered in another artificial holocaust for sale.

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Wilmington on DVD. Pick of the Week: New. Drive

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Neo-noir is this picture’s middle name, and its forebears are The Driver (of course) and John Boorman’s Point Blank, with Lee Marvin, and Peter Yates’ Bullitt, with Steve McQueen, and William Friedkin’s The French Connection and Michael Mann‘s outlaw movies Thief and Heat—and even perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville‘s Le Samourai, which has a hero hit man (played by Alain Delon) who’s just as cool, just as silent, murderous and secretly romantic as Gosling’s Driver is here.

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Wilmington on Movies: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Wilmington on Movies. Red Tails

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Wilmington on DVDs. Co-Pick of the Week: New. The Ides of March

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Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: New. Mysteries of Lisbon

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MCN Critics Len Klady David Poland Ray Pride Kim Voynar Michael Wilmington
Big Miracle
Chronicle
The Innkeepers
Kill List (NY, LA)
Splinters (NY)
W. E. (limited)

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Chronicle17.316.515.019.014.0
The Woman in Black13.412.413.013.516.0
The Grey10.512.011.010.010.0
Big Miracle7.75.77.08.08.0
One for the Money6.55.16.0n/a5.5
Underworld Awakening5.76.16.06.05.8
Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Chronicle 8.6 2907 NEW 8.6
The Woman in Black 8.3 2855 NEW 8.3
The Grey 3 3185 -53% 28.4
Big Miracle 2.2 2129 NEW 2.2
One For the Money 1.7 2737 -58% 16.1
Underworld: Awakening 1.7 3078 -51% 50.4
Man on a Ledge 1.5 2998 -40% 11.8
Red Tails 1.5 2347 -47% 37.8
The Descendants 1.4 2038 -20% 62.3
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 1.2 2505 -41% 24.1
Also Debuting
W.E. 15,400 4
La Fille du puisatier 11,700 7
Dancing Queen 4,800 1
Pink Ribbons, Inc. 4,400 19
Dysfunctional Friends 2,800 2
Kill List 1,800 1
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 5.5 4046 -67%
The Muppets 2.7 3440 -78%
Hugo 2 1840 -57%
Arthur Christmas 1.6 3376 -64%
Jack and Jill 1.6 3049 -59%
The Descendants 1.4 574 -48%
Happy Feet Two 1.4 3536 -73%
The Immortals 1.4 2627 -62%
Tower Heist 1.2 2404 -56%
Puss in Boots 0.7 2750 -77%
Also Debuting
Shame 0.11 10
The Dirty Picture 76,400 52
Pastorela 23,800 55
Kinyarwanda 8,100 9
I Am Singh 7,200 54
Answers to Nothing 5,300 21
Bezawada 4,800 28
Sleeping Beauty 2,800 2
Outrage 2,200 2
Khodorkovsky 1,434 1
The Ides of March
War Horse The Descendants