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The Durex treatment: The Wolf of Wall Street
Because every trailer contains at least one image that could double as an ad for Durex condoms.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47616/ Because "Playing games on the floor in the nursery" can mean two very different things. Durex.
Trailer Park: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street
BRING IT OVER!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47605/ It's a beautiful day in Movieland, folks, what with the release of the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall St., coming to a cinder block multiplex near you on November 15. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47610/ Hey, hey, look at …
"Kane is a comedy."
Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom had lunch. Jaglom taped it.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47591/ Okay, so My Lunches with Orson has just gone on the Big Screen Christmas wishlist. In the meantime, you can read an excerpt over at Vulture. It's mostly fantastic bitchy gossip about Old Hollywood, but it also contains the …
Blockbuster, or, The Modern Prometheus
Did you hear the one about the two directors who bemoaned the state of the industry they helped destroy?
My partner Scott already handled this story about Lucas and Spielberg and the overloaded tent-pole, and you should totally read his take first. But I couldn't help myself here. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/14/47525/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/14/47527/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/14/47526/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/14/47528/
Hey, everybody, it's Subway Sam!
He's a sewer rat in overalls!
Look for him in the upcoming children's movie, World War Z! Movie on 6-14-13 at 1.49 PM from Matthew Lickona on Vimeo. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/14/47522/
Happy Flag Day!
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New releases opening this week: Shadow Dancer, Man of Steel, and more
Could it be? Could it possibly be? Could Clive Owen finally be appearing in a good movie again? Yes, yes, it appears he is! Four stars for Shadow Dancer! Oh happy day! The only thing that could make today better, …
Robert Downey, Jr. is looking forward to playing characters who aren't Iron Man
Because then, he won't have to suffer through photo-ops gone bad like this one.
Iron Man 3 was a film about a man who began to identify so completely with his creation that he used it as an avatar during physical affection with his girlfriend, asking her to smooch the armored faceplate while he …
Interview with The East star and co-writer Brit Marling
(Review and showtimes are here. Opening interview with Marling's director and co-writer Zal Batmanglij is here.) Matthew Lickona: Tell me about Sarah's naivete. Brit Marling: I thought of her as a thoroughbred racehorse. She's very well trained, and she gets …
Interview with The East director and co-writer Zal Batmanglij
The East tells the story of Sarah (co-writer Brit Marling, interviewed here), a rising star at a private espionage agency who gets assigned to infiltrate the domestic organization that gives the film its name. The group does punishment-fits-the-crime work; during …
Meet skateboarder Ryan Sheckler at premiere screening of The Motivation on June 13
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/13/47435/ "A movie told through the eyes of the 8 best street-skateboarders in the world." As far at The Movement goes, that's pretty much all I have to work with. What makes this event special is an in-person appearance by …
Someone spank crybabies Lucas & Spielberg and send them to bed without their suppers
WAAAAAAAA! There's "eventually going to be an implosion in the film industry." WAAAAAAAA! Lincoln was 'this close' to going to HBO. WAAAAAAAA! We barely got (Red Tails) into theaters. I'm disgusted with the two of you's! Can we say chutzpah? …
A gallery of 33 vintage posters from Hollywood's Golden Age of cartoons
Feature length theatrical releases were not the only films to get the royal ballyhoo treatment back in the day. Posters heralding the arrival of a new one-reel animated wonder -- frequently as colorful as the shorts they hyped -- were …
Man of Steel, Man of God
Sigh.
"Have fun with this!" read the email from my Jewish fellow critic. Good fellow that he is, he was leaving it up to his Christian counterpart to address the conversion of Superman from immigrant Jewish mensch to weird Christ figure. …
DVR alert: 41st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47302/ Hold your tongues and rest your sphincters! Last week, the AFI Life Achievement Award went to Mel Brooks and Marty was on hand to present the trophy and suck face. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47303/ The ceremony will air this Saturday night at …
DVD Rentals: Tarzan Triumphs
Me like Tarzan movies!
Me like Tarzan. Too cheap to drop $40 retail on box set. Find Volume 2 in pawn shop. Cost five bucks. No resist. After M.G.M. shuttered their Tarzan unit, the King of the Jungle hopped a vine and swung across …
Review: Andrew Boyd's Adams Ave. '13 Unplugged on Mopeds
Five-star short debuts at America's Finest Film Festival
Quit your day job, Reader Andy; Hollywood is calling. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/11/47269/ Not since Werewolves on Wheels or Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese's What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? has a first film displayed a profound and …
DVD Rentals: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Why rent when for the same money you can buy a copy at Big!Lots?
John Huston and cinematographer Aldo Tonti originally envisioned Carson McCuller's story of military base masochism as a golden-hued fairy tale of sexual repression, ""Rated Mature: FOR ADULTS ONLY!" Huston's design concept originally called for only one natural color per scene, …
Movies on the half-shell
Oysterfest Music and Food Festival this weekend!
In honor of this year's daylong Oysterfest Music and Food Festival, to be held Saturday at the Marina Embarcadero North, 849 W Harbor Dr., here's a shucking good tribute to bivalve mollusks on film. Click for more information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1eNKGbbXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM …
Latin America will soon have access to Sundance Channel
American cable subscribers suffer, why shouldn't our friends South of the border?
The Sundance Channel hit the airwaves in 2006 with a schedule that represented the finest in independent films, world cinema, and documentaries. This September, the Sundance Channel makes its debut in seven Latin American countries. In a recent interview, station …