MCN Weekend Reviews

Wilmington on Movies: Star Trek Into Darkness

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In many ways, it’s a relief watching this picture. After a decade of Patrick Stewart and company, and then more than a decade of franchise silence, 2009’s Star Trek ingeniously brought the original seven Enterprise crew members back together—in the process, demonstrating a flair for matching the new younger actors playing the old characters with our memories of the original crew—and, as it turns out here, some others memories as well.

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Wilmington on DVDs: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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There are three Deborah Kerrs in Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger’s strange and wonderful British war epic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and like many young male moviegoers, I fell in love with all of them the first time I saw the movie.

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Wilmington on DVDs: Starlet; Cloud Atlas

CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW – STARLET  (Three Stars) U.S.: Sean Baker, 2013 (Music Box) There’s ’at least one redeeming thing about the movies. Sometimes, they don’t really need hundreds of millions of dollars worth of superstars and special affects and expensive stuff to engage and move us.  Sometimes pretty much all they have to…

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DVD Geek: Red Hook Summer

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Wilmington on Movies: The Croods

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Wilmington on Movies: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

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The Weekend Report

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MCN Critics Len Klady David Poland Ray Pride Kim Voynar Michael Wilmington
The Amazing Spider-Man
Savages
Starry Starry Night (NY)
The Do-Deca Pentathlon (limited)
The Magic of Belle Isle (limited)
Last Ride (NY)

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  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • The Amazing Spider Man
  • Prometheus
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
  • Snow White & the Huntsman
  • Men in Black 3
  • Dark Shadows
  • Girl in Progress
  • God Bless America
  • The Avengers
  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • The Five-Year Engagement
  • Chimpanzee
  • The Lucky One
  • Think Like A Man
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • The Three Stooges
  • The Hunger Games
  • Haywire
  • Apollo 18
  • The Singing Planet
  • Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  • The Descendants
  • The Muppets
  • Happy Feet 2
  • Immortals
  • Puss in Boots
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Footloose [2011]
  • The Ides of March
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Katy Perry: Part of Me
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