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OPENING TONIGHT UPDATE: American Mary
Um, my sincerest apologies for not mentioning this sooner, but American Mary is also opening Friday the 31st at the Digital Gym. Must have been some kind of block. But Scott thought it was pretty good!
Love, Darlene
"Twenty Feet From Stardom" brings you up close to a legend
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/31/46617/ Is there a better way to end the week than with Twenty Feet From Stardom? Well, a private screening of The Day the Clown Cried, comes to mind, but until Jerry decides the time is right, we'll just have …
New releases opening this week: Before Midnight, The Matchmaker, and more
Let's get the drunken stumbles out of the way: we have not yet seen the magician caper flick Now You See Me. To make up for this gross oversight, here are the first four minutes, free of charge: Wasn't that …
Landmark Theatres Marketing Coordinator makes some noise
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/30/46577/ By day, Branden Parrish is the regional Marketing Coordinator for Landmark Theatres, a man responsible for brewing some of the most savory movie theatre coffee ever to warm this reporter's gullet. Under the cloak of darkness, Branden transforms into …
Did I miss Bob Hope's birthday?
Had he lived, venerable comedian Bob Hope would have turned 1,478 yesterday. In honor of the occasion, TCM dragged a river in Toluca Lake and pulled out a few prime catches. My lips moved along with the dialog while reexamining …
Disney Lone Ranger give wampum to American Indian College Fund
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/29/46514/ Walt Disney Studios Chairman, Alan Horn, announced today that proceeds from the World Premiere screening The Lone Ranger will benefit the American Indian College Fund. “We’ve had a terrific collaboration with the Native American community throughout the production of …
Autobots, roll out! New high-octane photos from Michael Bay's Transformers 4
Isn't this the franchise responsible for introducing the world to Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley? Shouldn't there be sexy promotional snaps of Nicola Peltz, Michael Bay's latest fantasy object and star of the upcoming Transformers 4, rather than images reminiscent …
San Diego High School holds annual Film Festival at Landmark's Ken Cinema
I remember my first high school film festival. Our teacher, Miss Peiffer, plunked a creaky 16mm Bell & Howell Autoload on a card table in the back of the school gymnasium, pointed the projection beam in the general direction of …
DVD Rentals: Liberace in Sincerely Yours
Any film that posits two women vying for Liberace’s romantic affection is not fit to include the word “sincerely” in its title. It was the ‘50’s, people were stupid, and every matronly naif who owned a TV set wanted their …
Spot the Fake Titles Quiz IV: Dead by Dawn
Before you hit the road for this Memorial Day weekend, why not give your memory a workout by trying to spot which three (3) of the following 20 (twenty) title cards are bogus. If you have to resort to using …
Alice Eve speaks out on Star Trek underwear scene!
Dept. of No, Not Really
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Steven Soderbergh reads The Big Screen!
Well, maybe not.
But it's hard to look at this lineup of obscure movie references on his new T-shirt line and not think of the estimable Mr. Marks and his cavalcade of quizzery. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46252/
Spend Memorial Day in Alpine giving thanks to veterans
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46247/ My friend, colleague, and Earth Mother of the San Diego Film Critics Society, Diana Saenger, asked that I pass on this news of a great way to spend Memorial Day by honoring our troops. The Alpine Community Center is …
New releases opening this week: Fast & Furious 6, Deceptive Practice and much more!
Friday movie meltdown can be fun!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46227/ So: one last time. Something is wrong with the showtime machine here at the Reader. So here's a roundup of what's new this week: Deceptive Practice, Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, Epic, What Maisie Knew, Frances …
Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum now open to non-members
For as long as I've known my pal, John Dacapias, he's been touting the virtues of Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum. The group, limited to a precious few, meets 12 times a year -- with pot luck in hand -- to …
Trailer Park: The World's End
Now that's structure.
Okay, it's not out until tomorrow, but I really really like the device in Frances Ha of having addresses serve as chapter headings, especially when your film is set in New York City. Still, I'm not sure that even that …
Trailer Park: Last Vegas
Brilliant. Mean, but brilliant.
Okay, so that was awful. That's understood. But there's a special evil to the awfulness. Because even though the trailer is barely over a minute long, it still manages to insult each and every one of its Academy Award-winning leads …
Dig a hole: Steve Forrest
"S.W.A.T." star and Dana Andrews' younger brother
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/23/46129/ Steve Forrest, movie actor, Lt. Hondo Harrelson on TV's S.W.A.T., and dependable Dana Andrews' real-life kid brother, is dead. For years I couldn't see the Forrest for the Andrews. (It must have had something to do with countless childhood …
Sloppy seconds? Ken Scott gets another shot at his high concept
Perhaps the ultimate example of making an indie film in order to break into Hollywood
Hey, did you see the sperm-donor comedy Starbuck? Probably not - it made just $335,000 in the States, and received middling reviews. But hey, it managed to do $1.6 million worldwide! And you know what else it managed to do? …
The day Pee Wee Herman landed me in the hospital
Another celeb encounter gone very, very wrong...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/22/46081/ It was around 1999 when I first heard through mutual acquaintances that Paul Reubens, AKA Pee Wee Herman, liked the (utterly unauthorized, but not negative) comic book bio that I wrote about him back in '92. As in many …