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 Wilmington on DVD: Gone With the Wind, The Exiles, Star Trek, My Sister's KeeperMike Wilmington on Wednesday 11/18/2009 10:00 amLike the flawed but spectacular Margaret Mitchell novel from which it derives, the movie Gone With the Wind has never lost its power to enthrall and bewitch. Producer David O. Selznick's phenomenal film, can still, like Mitchell's saucy and unconquerable heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, seduce or bulldoze almost all before it. >More  Wilmington on DVD: Up, Wings of Desire, holiday classics, The Ugly Truth, Mamma Mia!Mike Wilmington on Wednesday 11/11/2009 10:00 amUp flies us right up into those magical realms of sky, flight and fantasy that Judy garland's Dorothy traveled, in her Kansas twister ride to Oz, and that little Pascal Lamorisse was whisked off to by his air force of Parisian balloons at the end of The Red Balloon. >More Wilmington on DVD: North by Northwest, Food, Inc., noir classics, The Taking of Pelham 123Mike Wilmington on Wednesday 11/04/2009 10:00 amNorth by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's great romantic/comedy/thriller -- with Cary Grant at his witty, seductive, impeccable best as "wrong man" Roger Thornhill, an overly smug Madison Avenue adman who gets mistaken for an elusive spy. >More Wilmington on DVD: Il Divo, Z, Sam Fuller, Ice Age 3, Whatever Works, OrphanMike Wilmington on Wednesday 10/28/2009 10:00 am, (1) RecommendationVeteran Italian actor Toni Servillo's craggy wise-hood face -- as impassive and immobile as a dentist staring into your mouth or a panther regarding its prey -- is at the center of a jaw-dropping whirlpool of bloody events and political crime, portrayed or exposed in Il Divo, subtitled The Extraordinary Life of Giulio Andreotti. >More Wilmington on DVD: Monsoon Wedding, Dusan Makavejev, Transformers 2, CheriMike Wilmington on Wednesday 10/21/2009 10:00 amMonsoon Wedding, Mira Nair's joyous movie about a wedding in Delhi -- constantly disrupted by family squabbles, sudden crises, covert romantic interludes, cultural clashes among the guests, dark buried secrets erupting to the surface and finally, a full-blown monsoon rainfall, not to mention a musical climax that outdoes Bollywood -- is both her most popular film and her best. >More Wilmington on DVD: Natural Born Killers, Drag Me to Hell, Gaumont, The ProposalMike Wilmington on Wednesday 10/14/2009 10:00 amNatural Born Killers, Oliver Stone's mad-dog-violent "love on the run" neo-noir, one of the most controversial movies of the '90s, may get better and better every time you see it in a new release. But that doesn't mean it still couldn't use some improvement. >More Wilmington on DVD: Chinatown, Anvil!, A Hard Day's Night, My Life in RuinsMike Wilmington on Wednesday 10/07/2009 10:00 amNo matter what you think of Roman Polanski and his current arrest and extradition problems, the director's 1974 private eye classic Chinatown is still a masterpiece of film neo-noir. >More Wilmington on DVD: The Wizard of Oz, Monsters vs. Aliens, Away We GoMike Wilmington on Wednesday 09/30/2009 10:00 amSome movies appeal to just about everybody -- like the heart-stoppingly entertaining and wonderful 1939 musical that MGM made out of L. Frank Baum's American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz, now released in a deluxe 70th anniversary DVD edition by Warner. >More Wilmington on DVD: That Hamilton Woman, Paul Newman, X-Men Origins: WolverineMike Wilmington on Wednesday 09/23/2009 10:00 am, (1) RecommendationFew historical period dramas carry a greater romantic charge than Alexander Korda's glossy, flag-waving, deeply tragic and plushly erotic bio film That Hamilton Woman, on England's iconic naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson. >More Wilmington on DVD: Easy Virtue, Wagon Master, TCM horror, Next Day AirMike Wilmington on Wednesday 09/16/2009 10:00 am, (1) RecommendationNoel Coward's blithe, spirited, sexy '20s play, Easy Virtue, is not new to movies. This country manor comedy of good and bad manners was, in fact, somewhat indifferently adapted in 1927 by the young Alfred Hitchcock. >More |
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