http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/28/37585/ I'm a wholesome goodhearted guy with people's best interests at heart! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/28/37586/ No, I'm a wholesome goodhearted guy with people's best interests at heart! Scott wasn't too exceedingly thrilled with the frakudrama Promised Land. But I will quibble with …

On this final Friday of 2012, a brief bout of movie-related self-promotion

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/28/37574/ I am very fond of Anne Helen Petersen's Scandals of Classic Hollywood over at The Hairpin. A while back, I was reading her piece on Gloria Swanson, and learned what I really should have known already: that there was …

Big Screen wants your ideas for films that could never be made

You all know about The Black List, Hollywood's declaration of love for various scripts that have not been made...yet. We here at Big Screen (definite articles are so pre-Mayan apocalypse) are starting up a list of our own - a …

I just hope there isn't another one marked "Dreams" in the next lot over.

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A couple of genius moments from one of my very favorite films, here and here. Thank you, Pappy O'Daniel.

Cirque du Soleil? More like Cirque du SoGAY, amirite, fellas?*

So this came in the mail: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/21/37277/ So now I feel obliged to remind y'all that Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away opens tonight! I won't be there, though. I'll be showing up in your nightmares, wearing this very special mask! …

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/21/37271/ This shot shows up in a Vince Vaughn bro-comedy, there are protests about demeaning gay stereotypes. It shows up in an Almodovar movie, it's hilarious. Discuss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nb3ZygFz-M

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/21/37268/ I dunno. I was just tickled by the juxtaposition of old (Mel Gibson) and new (Tom Hardy). And forget a new Lethal Weapon installment - this should be the franchise that brings back Mad Mel.

The new mid-life movie This is 40 isn't just Judd Apatow getting to fantasize that he's Paul Rudd by casting him opposite Mrs. Judd Apatow, aka Leslie Mann. It's also a chance for him to introduce the world to Megan …

Mr. Marks, having doled out the first batch of Christmas goodies, will no doubt be along again soon with an account of his time spent at Parental Guidance. Probably right after the bandages come off his eyes. In the meantime, …

Mr. Marks is just grumpy about Punch Drunks being the only Three Stooges joint in the National Film Registry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnmyHVDRFY Otherwise, he would not have failed to post the gem of this year's additions to the Registry: Kodachrome Motion Picture …

Well, as long as Mr. Marks is taking note of Big George's man-love, and as long as I'm accusing Big Pete of going Full Lucas, I suppose it's worth noting that, were it not for a brief appearance from Galadriel, …

Judge gives Florida man 10-year sentence for breaking into email accounts and spying on people. "That's the government's job," declares Judge.

Two of the celebrities involved in the hacking scandal issued statements. Christina Aguilera said: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37149/ While Scarlett Johanssen added: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37150/ Another victim, Esquire magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive for 2012 Mila Kunis, has yet to make any public comment on the …

I mean, he's been a Muppet for years! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37064/

"To fight monsters, we created monsters." Gosh, given the torture flap, it seems like this ought to be slapped onto Zero Dark Thirty.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37062/ "Wait, guys, I dropped a giant contact lens. I think it was right around here."

Vulture notes that Scott Marks' favorite eyebrow model is planning on making a Clinton documentary for some reason. President Clinton was larger than life. He doesn't deserve a documentary; he deserves fiction. And not some namby-pamby piece-on-the-side stuff like Primary …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP-o_JxysA Nice work, Mr. Trailer Editor: "You're gonna get yourself and everyone under your command killed" gets spoken right over a shot of Mr. Doomed Redshirt running scared: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37043/ And it's not in the trailer, but what about this line …

Dept. of No, Not Really

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/14/36982/ "It says here that Jackson is taking over from Spielberg." "Out of the frying pan and into the fire." "To be precise: after the Hobbit gets panned, he should be fired." Peter Jackson, the celebrated director of such films …

Surprise! Smaug is not the most noteworthy dragon in theaters today!

The Hobbit is out. I saw it twice - once in High Frame Rate 3D and once in regular 3D. The first made everything look awful - the people looked like weird ordinary folk in heavy makeup instead of characters, …