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Suena: Tijuana filmmaker offers look at art, music, and city
Saulo Cisneros presents a feature-length documentary following the sights and sounds of Tijuana.
The guttural rumble of an un-muffled city bus. An electric sunrise crowning mountains beyond dense urban sprawl. The strangely-comforting coalesce of Fabuloso and sewage on a humid summer breeze. Tijuana careens in from every angle with an ever-changing onslaught of …
Sony's Midnight lawsuit has bright ending
Woody not guilty of plagiarizing Faulkner's "Nun"
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/19/49538/ You're not going to believe this. The estate of William Faulkner took Sony Pictures Classic to court all over Woody Allen's winnowing a line of dialog from the novel Requiem for a Nun. Owen Wilson's character in Midnight in …
Movies opening this week: Un Flic, Still Mine and more
Lots more
Look, I'm not saying you have to go see Un Flic this weekend. But Scott is. But if you still want to see something after Un Flic, you could do worse than Still Mine. Lush, emotional, sympathetic - apple pie …
You won't find this type of Jewish guilt at Kensington Video
If you want to know why I so generously provide Fred Saxon with a plug whenever he performs, look no further than this photo he forwarded: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/19/49523/ The location of the incident remains a mystery and I'm guessing that "A. …
'Love Network' leveled as Jerry-less Telethon moves to ABC
Once upon a time there was a Telethon, and the month before Labor Day saw a sudden rise in awkwardly cropped pictures of Jerry Lewis' head adorning boxes of Sara Lee pound cake in your grocer's freezer section. Jerry Lewis, …
Because Acting for Dummies is too literal
Look, we've already gone after the trailer for Last Vegas. But if I had any clout whatsoever, I would keep this in mind for my YouTube interview series, Acting for Dollars. The whole joke of the show would be to …
Interview with Still Mine star James Cromwell
Still Mine tells the story of Craig Morrison, an independent-minded old man who bumps up against the system when he sets out to build a single-story home on his property. (Craig's wife Irene has begun to suffer from dementia, and …
Saxon on sax
Psssst! What are you doing a week from Sunday? Want to hang out in the park and watch a bunch of Relative Minors and Friends have sax? Get your smut-filled minds out of the gutter! We're here to help promote …
11 celebrity comedy teams we'd like to see
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This week all roads lead to the Ken Cinema
Can't get tickets for Comic-Con? Lucky you! Instead of being taken at the Con, drop in on the double feature of double-crosses opening Friday at Landmark's Ken Cinema. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/17/49294/ Godard in 35mm? You should have already purchased tickets. A double …
Lickona's Lexicon: Geriaction
Action movie starring old people, usually old people who starred in action movies before they were old people. Cf. The Expendables, Bullet to the Head, Red, Red 2, The Last Stand, etc.
Spielberg enters his Ford period
First came Old Mr. Lincoln followed by news that Stevie and Tom Hanks will co-produce a third World War II miniseries for HBO. Now there's talk of Spiel expressing interest in a remake of The Grapes of Wrath. Isn't it …
Grown Ups 2 and cartoon sequel take in more money than Pacific Rim
Call it the King Midas touch in reverse. My enjoyment of a summer blockbuster should give producers instant cause to begin fanning the aroma of flop sweat. Hollywood's insistence on using technology to supplant storytelling generally gives cause to make …
Movies opening this week: Pacific Rim, The Way, Way Back and more
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/12/49078/ "Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?" Okay, so Scott Marks liked Pacific Rim more than I did, as you can tell from this Facebook chat. And I liked The Way, Way Back more than Scott did, …
Who needs Kaiju and Jaegers when it's Bobby-D vs. Jay-Z?
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/12/49076/ After what he said about Bobby D., Jay-Z will be lucky to find work as a backup singer for Who's Bad. Where does Jay-Z-z-z get the balls big enough to take on (prior to 1996) the greatest actor of …
Interview with The Way, Way Back co-writers and co-directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon
The Way, Way Back tells the story of Duncan (Liam James), a pouty-slouchy teenage boy who heads off for a month's vacation at the beach house of his mom Pam's (Toni Collette) new boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell). It doesn't go …
Martin & Lewis address their critics
Make that critic. Louella Parsons. Ms. Parsons was America's first movie columnist. Nowadays we shrug off punks like Justin Bieber using a janitor's bucket for a urinal, but back in the day, Parsons had to power to make or break …
The Way, Way Back to Facebook
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/11/48989/ Don't look now, but there's some chatter about the film over on another website.
Sloppy Moe to testify against Mayor Filner
"I know something I won't tell, I won't tell, I won't tell. I know something I won't tell, it's about Bob Filner!" http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/11/48987/
Female trouble
It ain't easy being a chick in Hollywood
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