Scott Marks

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

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Recent Articles

Spot the Fake Titles Quiz IV: Dead by Dawn

Before you hit the road for this Memorial Day weekend, why not give your memory a workout by trying to ...

Spend Memorial Day in Alpine giving thanks to veterans

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/24/46247/ My friend, colleague, and Earth Mother of the San Diego Film Critics Society, Diana Saenger, asked that I pass ...

Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum now open to non-members

For as long as I've known my pal, John Dacapias, he's been touting the virtues of Pac-Arts monthly Film Forum. ...

Dig a hole: Steve Forrest

"S.W.A.T." star and Dana Andrews' younger brother

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/23/46129/ Steve Forrest, movie actor, Lt. Hondo Harrelson on TV's S.W.A.T., and dependable Dana Andrews' real-life kid brother, is dead. ...

The cranky conjurer

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 ...

To Smurf, or not to Smurf: it's out of the question

I drew the unenviable task of reviewing the first Smurfs movie. I peed blue for three weeks. If I belch ...

A brief history of Liberace(s) on film

Soderbergh's biopic premiers Sunday on HBO

Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, is not the first time the story of the flamboyant pianist has been ...

GO TO HELL!

Satan's waitin'!

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No gain, all pain

In order to help underwrite their addiction to steroids and dumbbells (and also to impress the bitches), a trio of meathead bodybuilders resorts to a life of crime by kidnapping an unscrupulous Florida businessman (Tony ...

Sister act

Down under wonder

The studio rep described it as “Dreamgirls, only happier.” A stop at the concession stand to pick up an air-sickness bag seemed in order. Well, blow me down! The Sapphires is a feel good movie ...

Starbuck, king of conception

How do you say Neil Simon in French? A professional sperm donor, going by the name Starbuck (Patrick Huard), anonymously fathers what amounts to his own chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada. Eventually, ...