Last one, I promise, but it's about time we had a serious discussion about nudity in film, right, Seth Rogen? So, Penelope Cruz - Seth mentioned you in his song about boobs. How do you feel about the nudity? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40814/ …

Seth MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" song has generated rather a good deal of uproar since he sang it during his Oscars opening bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWLKP8j0zk Now, some of those boobs finally get to respond. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40805/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40806/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40807/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40809/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40810/

At least as far as Best Picture is concerned.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that what last year's Best Picture, The Artist, has in common with this year's best picture, Argo, is that they both start with A, and Academy voters are so damn rigid that they …

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Bless Me, Ultima is the film version of the novel by Richard Anaya, and it tells the story of Antonio, a Chicano boy in 1940s New Mexico who must contend with many influences as he seeks to make sense of …

No, seriously! This one's character-driven! Maybe it's the sun shining down after a wet and chilly week. Maybe it's the end of flu season. But something's in the air - Scott enjoyed not one, but two movies that he was …

Haven't seen this one yet, but there are some genuine chills in the trailer. Children who don't come home for family gatherings because they're playing video games with their friends. Is it at all surprising that the trouble starts here? …

The New Yorker's Richard Brody says yes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ438Fy_PYg I'm not sure if Scott would agree, but I thought I'd toss it out there for him.

Teamwork!

Remember this lovely bit from the 2010 Oscars? Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. doing a back-and-forth about writers and actors? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1BHrQ_7T4 Robert Downey Jr.: "It's a collaboration. A collaboration between handsome, gifted people and sickly little mole people." Tina …

How many acts of cinematic theft can you pack into one trailer?

Let's take a look! Beloved super-dude appears before huge crowd of adoring fans and kisses a baby. Wow, haven't seen that since Megamind! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/15/40221/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/15/40220/ Oh, look: it turns out that we've got all this really cool technology, not because …

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/15/40217/ If the above image does not convince you to see the senior-center documentary short "King's Point," I'm not sure we can be friends any more. Look, I'm not a fool. I know you're probably not thinking, "Woo-hoo! Friday night! …

In praise of low-budget, lowbrow, minor collaborations

Nobody, I think, is going to argue that Castle Freak represents the finest execution of the the "H.P. Lovecraft to Stuart Gordon to Jeffery Combs" combination; that honor pretty clearly goes to Re-Animator. But a passing mention of Castle Freak …

I don't think they're even trying any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a8DjuGlVknQ Just. Wow. What is the sound of one film pandering? Let's begin. Vince Vaughn is 42. Owen Wilson is 44. But for the sake of The Internship, they might as well be a couple of Foxy Grampas, looking to …

...they just come back as grizzled versions of themselves.

Well, Bullet to the Head and Stand Up Guys and The Last Stand sure seem to be making the case against old folks gettin' out of their easy chairs and up on the big screen. But dammit, we won't really …

OMG, you guys.

The good times roll on Friday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C-wk5XfpE Whoa. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/12/40000/ "I'm not saying that George Harrison and Liberace ever partied with Hugh Hefner. I'm saying that if they did, this ensemble would have been the offspring of whatever clothes wound up …

DEPT OF NO, NOT REALLY

Press release came over the transom today: “LINCOLN” SPURS EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN All Middle and High Schools Across the U.S. to Receive DVDs of Steven Spielberg’s film as Part of Education Outreach BURBANK, CALIF. (February 11, 2013)–Jim Berk, Chief Executive Officer …

Jude Law thinks back on the days when he would have gotten the Channing Tatum role. You guys, Side Effects is a really good piece of modern film noir. The torturous recesses of the human heart, the unseemly grease on …

This Marks piece on Speedy Gonzalez was great - you should read it. I'm posting this followup only to spur him to perform a similar service for another bit of Looney Tunes ethnic hilarity, one Pepe Le Pew. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/07/39717/ Hee …

Phil Spector? Too easy. C'mon Pacino - reach. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39652/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39653/

Some crucial omissions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-mUxk82B4 I mean, yeah, 3D dogfights are probably cool, but we all know why everybody's going, right? 3D Buns! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39648/ 3D Volleyball! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39649/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39650/ And 3D tongues! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/06/39651/ I mean, really. Don't make me do your job, people.