Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Look back in anger...
...or in hilarity with this week's new film releases, including Hostiles
The Maltese Falcon: "The stuff that dreams are made of" — who knew private eyes were so Shakespearean?
Truth be told, there's not a lot on the new release front this week for some reason, and what there is has a decidedly backward-looking feel.
Movie
Hostiles ***
Director and co-writer Scott Cooper re-teams with his <em>Out of the Furnace</em> star Christian Bale to tell the story of Captain Joseph J. Blocker, a man of war facing a violent transition — physically and otherwise — to peacetime living. After a lifetime spent killing people because those were his orders, he is ordered to preserve the life of his bitterest enemy, an ailing Cheyenne who wants to die on his home turf and needs protection for the journey. To complicate matters, the caravan picks up a pioneer woman (Rosamund Pike) who has just endured the slaughter of her family by the natives. Bale nails the portrayal of Blocker’s cold hatred, a condition honed by experience, bound by a strict code, and tempered — perhaps in both senses — by a fierce intelligence and a tenacious faith. Throughout, a great deal is communicated even as very little is said, and much of it concerns the possibility of being human in inhuman circumstances. By turns deliberative and chaotic, brutal and merciful, definitely bleak and just maybe hopeful, <em>Hostiles</em> could have ended with its penultimate scene, but it would have been a very different movie.
Hostiles goes back to the settling (read: claiming) of the American West, while Maze Runner: The Death Cure harkens way back to 2015, when part two of Wes Ball's YA trilogy came out.
Digital Gym casts a glance over its shoulder into the shadows for Noir on the Boulevard, featuring something old (The Maltese Falcon) and something much less old, though hardly new (Brick).
But the biggest piece of old news — or just news about what's old — is the mini-festival being held by Saps at Sea to open their 40th season. Watch Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make nice with the ladies in three different shorts tomorrow night at Trinity Presbyterian Church!
Here's something you might be interested in.
Look back in anger...
...or in hilarity with this week's new film releases, including Hostiles
Look back in anger...
...or in hilarity with this week's new film releases, including Hostiles
The Maltese Falcon: "The stuff that dreams are made of" — who knew private eyes were so Shakespearean?
Truth be told, there's not a lot on the new release front this week for some reason, and what there is has a decidedly backward-looking feel.
Movie
Hostiles ***
Director and co-writer Scott Cooper re-teams with his <em>Out of the Furnace</em> star Christian Bale to tell the story of Captain Joseph J. Blocker, a man of war facing a violent transition — physically and otherwise — to peacetime living. After a lifetime spent killing people because those were his orders, he is ordered to preserve the life of his bitterest enemy, an ailing Cheyenne who wants to die on his home turf and needs protection for the journey. To complicate matters, the caravan picks up a pioneer woman (Rosamund Pike) who has just endured the slaughter of her family by the natives. Bale nails the portrayal of Blocker’s cold hatred, a condition honed by experience, bound by a strict code, and tempered — perhaps in both senses — by a fierce intelligence and a tenacious faith. Throughout, a great deal is communicated even as very little is said, and much of it concerns the possibility of being human in inhuman circumstances. By turns deliberative and chaotic, brutal and merciful, definitely bleak and just maybe hopeful, <em>Hostiles</em> could have ended with its penultimate scene, but it would have been a very different movie.
Hostiles goes back to the settling (read: claiming) of the American West, while Maze Runner: The Death Cure harkens way back to 2015, when part two of Wes Ball's YA trilogy came out.
Digital Gym casts a glance over its shoulder into the shadows for Noir on the Boulevard, featuring something old (The Maltese Falcon) and something much less old, though hardly new (Brick).
But the biggest piece of old news — or just news about what's old — is the mini-festival being held by Saps at Sea to open their 40th season. Watch Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make nice with the ladies in three different shorts tomorrow night at Trinity Presbyterian Church!
Comments