Matthew Lickona

Matthew Lickona contributes movie reviews, Crush wine reviews, and is the author of Swimming with Scapulars. He also contributes to the Reader's Big Screen movie blog, and the Feast! blog.

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Recent Articles

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.

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46252/ But it's hard to look at this lineup of obscure movie references on his new T-shirt line and not ...

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 ...

Friday movie meltdown: What Maisie Knew

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46224/ Review: A fairy tale of divorce, one that imagines an blissful way out of the trauma brought on by ...

Friday movie meltdown: Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46211/ Review BY SCOTT MARKS: In the hands of crackerjack conjurer Ricky Jay, a deck of playing cards holds the ...

Friday movie meltdown: The Hangover Part III

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

Review BY SCOTT MARKS: For those who exited The Hangover Part II feeling their time and money well spent, this ...

Friday movie meltdown: Fast & Furious 6

The movie machine is broken! So here's the deal!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46209/ Review: The cars, they are very pretty. Vin Diesel's voice, it is very gravelly. The Rock, he is very ...

Dammit, Jim

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 ...

The "great" character

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: ...

Lumbering Man

More metal mancrush

Iron Man 3 is, like its hero Tony Stark at the outset and Stark’s girlfriend Pepper Potts at another point in the story, a hot mess. It does what third installments tend to do: revisit ...

Malick’s (un)romantic musings

The world is poisoned and so are we.

"Why do we come back down?” asks Marina (Olga Kurylenko) in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder. Why, after mounting to transcendence, do we sink back willy-nilly into everything we sought to transcend? To take an ...