Spot the Fake Titles Quiz IV: Dead by Dawn
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Fool me once...
If you’ve already had your fill of illusory summer movie magic, why not set aside the comic books and spend some time watching the Iron Man of misrepresentation. In the hands of crackerjack conjurer Ricky ...
Boldly going nostalgic
Star Trek into Darkness is a showcase for director J.J. Abrams at his most J.J. Abrams-y. Do you identify Abrams by his fondness for lens flares? You will not be disappointed. Lens Flare spends enough ...
Gatsby née Gatz
Anyone who’s seen the screamy, thudding trailers for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby knows that it is not a paint-by-numbers cinematic re-presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s elegant, economic novel. The numbers are there, of course: ...
Humanists Film Discussion GroupFirst Unitarian Universalist Church of San DiegoSunday, May 26, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. |
Tea or ElectricityOcean Beach PlayhouseMonday, May 27, 11 a.m. |
The ListOcean Beach PlayhouseMonday, May 27, 5:45 p.m. |
Family Film: Allez, Eddy!Ocean Beach PlayhouseMonday, May 27, 1:15 p.m. |
United In Anger: A History Of ACT UPOcean Beach PlayhouseMonday, May 27, 8 p.m. |
Two grad professors have taught and praised The Decalogue in their poetry/fiction classes this semester. Originally airing in the late ’80s on Polish television, The Decalogue is a collection of ten potent vignettes loosely corresponding ...
Matthew Vaughn, producer of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, tries his own hand at directing one of these tough and tricksy British crime thrillers: a brutal cutie. Well played by Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris, Kenneth ...
A trip down Memory Lane, or Memory Back Alley, to the drug-related multiple murder in 1981 in which porn star John Holmes (past his prime) had a hand. It's clear which version of events the movie favors (between the conflicting ...
A black-market-nuclear-bomb scenario played for laughs. Or anyway Chris Rock plays it that way, while the rest of the cast plays it more or less straight. Rock, a Madison Square Garden ticket scalper and Washington Square chess hustler (like Laurence ...