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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
The Durex treatment: The Wolf of Wall Street
Because every trailer contains at least one image that could double as an ad for Durex condoms.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47616/ Because "Playing games on the floor in the nursery" can mean two very different things. Durex.
"Kane is a comedy."
Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom had lunch. Jaglom taped it.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47591/ Okay, so My Lunches with Orson has just gone on the Big Screen Christmas wishlist. In the meantime, you ...
Blockbuster, or, The Modern Prometheus
Did you hear the one about the two directors who bemoaned the state of the industry they helped destroy?
My partner Scott already handled this story about Lucas and Spielberg and the overloaded tent-pole, and you should totally read ...
Hey, everybody, it's Subway Sam!
He's a sewer rat in overalls!
Look for him in the upcoming children's movie, World War Z! Movie on 6-14-13 at 1.49 PM from Matthew Lickona ...
New releases opening this week: Shadow Dancer, Man of Steel, and more
Could it be? Could it possibly be? Could Clive Owen finally be appearing in a good movie again? Yes, yes, ...
Robert Downey, Jr. is looking forward to playing characters who aren't Iron Man
Because then, he won't have to suffer through photo-ops gone bad like this one.
Iron Man 3 was a film about a man who began to identify so completely with his creation that he ...
Interview with The East star and co-writer Brit Marling
(Review and showtimes are here. Opening interview with Marling's director and co-writer Zal Batmanglij is here.) Matthew Lickona: Tell me ...
Before Midnight: For starters, you’re crazy
Modern Greek drama
As Before Midnight draws near to its titular hour, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) gets a mid-argument chance to make a list of his beloved Celine’s (July Delpy) flaws. “Well, for starters, you’re fucking crazy,” he begins ...
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 ...
