Scott Marks

Scott Marks contributes to the Reader's movie blog, The Big Screen.

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Scott Marks's Stories

San Diego's 10 Best Movie Theaters

Movie theaters still maintain the magic of moviegoing and, boy, do we need it now. In this issue, we present San Diego's 10 best theaters to get lost in.

Joy to the Screen

Scott: The first inkling that Christmas was not a holiday for Hebrews came from a neighbor kid, the fine Aryan specimen Timothy Murphy: “My Uncle Roy says Jews celebrate Christmas by staying home and counting ...

Scott Marks's Blog Entries

Why Cinepolis and the La Paloma Didn't Make the Cut

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/25/24990/ Regarding my cover story on San Diego's Ten Best Movie Theatres, Ken Harrison writes: "OMG! How could writer Scott Marks miss Encinitas’s iconic La Paloma Theatre in his top ten picks of local theaters? ...

FilmOut 14 Runs May 30 - July 10 at Birch North Park Theatre

The 14th Annual FilmOut Sandiego LGBT Film Festival returns to the Birch North Park Theatre next week for five days of parties and premiers. Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst opens the festival. The romantic comedy stars Olympia ...

Seattle Moviegoer Charged with Knocking Out Noisy Ten-Year-Old's Tooth

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24869/ A Seattle-area moviegoer, pushed to the limit by a rowdy 10-year-old boy, has been charged with felony assault for allegedly taking a poke at the kid. It began at on April 11 at 10:30 ...

Some Lick It Hot: Hotel Del Coronado Celebrates Billy Wilder Stamp

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24858/ Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe aren't the only instantly recognizable icons to grace the front of one of four stamps honoring "Great Film Directors" issued by the United States Postal Service. Look carefully and ...

Dig a Hole: Eugene Polley, Co-Inventor of the Wireless Remote

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24821/ Chances are you weren't familiar with the name Eugene Polley when the newscaster announced his death over this morning's coffee. Without his invention, chances are Americans would have been forced to take in a ...

Chicks in the City Takes Home SDSU Award for Excellence in Documentary Production

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24642/ Earlier this week The Big Screen reported that Rebecca Tolin's documentary short Chicks in the City didn't make the cut at this year's SDSU Filmmaker's Showcase. It is my great pleasure to announce that ...

Count Floyd Terrified by Katy Perry in 3-D

Count Floyd here, kids, telling you that next week on Monster Chiller Horror Theatre we have a film so scary that pus will fall in buckets from your eyes! No, not Blood Sucking Monkeys from ...