Scott Marks

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DVD Rentals: Frank Sinatra, from Tony Rome with love

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/19/47813/ If Charles Bronson can pull the old Paul Kersey/Kimball switcheroo in the Death With series, I feel no remorse ...

4th row center: The 'movie hole'

The Parkway was the first movie theatre ever placed in my managerial care. It was a 700-seat single screen situated ...

**L@@K** RARE VINTAGE RETRO CLASSIC OZU WIFE-BEATER T-SHIRT - CHEAP **L@@K**

I can hear the t-shirt printer now: "Ozu wife-beaters? I thought you said O.J." It must have been all of ...

Clean slate: A brief pictorial tribute to the clapboard

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Trailer Park: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street

BRING IT OVER!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/17/47605/ It's a beautiful day in Movieland, folks, what with the release of the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The ...

Happy Flag Day!

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Meet skateboarder Ryan Sheckler at premiere screening of The Motivation on June 13

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/13/47435/ "A movie told through the eyes of the 8 best street-skateboarders in the world." As far at The Movement ...

Growl and grumble

Kneel before Zod

Look! Up on the screen! It’s absurd! It’s inane! It’s Snyder’s Man! Zack Snyder sucker-punches Richard Lester’s Superman II to date Hollywood’s final say on how to film a comic book. Credit the man of ...

Thames travel

The way to Londontown

A monumental achievement in cinema-as-time-travel. Writer, director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners, The Filth and the Fury) and his frequent editor, Caroline Richards, availed themselves of the opportunity to boil down 800 hours of sparklingly restored ...

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 ...

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 ...