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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Friday movie meltdown: Epic

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

Review: As Pixar gets digested by Disney, Blue Sky Studios steps up and takes its shot at the title for ...

Friday movie meltdown: Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

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

Review: The most popular women's shoes at Bergdorf's sell for $6000 a pair. They can't keep them in stock. If ...

Friday movie meltdown: 7 Boxes

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

Review BY SCOTT MARKS: A pushcart war erupts in a Paraguyan marketplace after Victor, a 17-year-old delivery boy played by ...

Friday movie meltdown: Frances Ha

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

Review: Can we just go ahead and agree that the actress Greta Gerwig is (for better and for worse) our ...

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. ...

Trailer Park: The World's End

Now that's structure.

Okay, it's not out until tomorrow, but I really really like the device in Frances Ha of having addresses serve ...

Trailer Park: Last Vegas

Brilliant. Mean, but brilliant.

Okay, so that was awful. That's understood. But there's a special evil to the awfulness. Because even though the trailer ...

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. ...

Sloppy seconds? Ken Scott gets another shot at his high concept

Perhaps the ultimate example of making an indie film in order to break into Hollywood

Hey, did you see the sperm-donor comedy Starbuck? Probably not - it made just $335,000 in the States, and received ...

The day Pee Wee Herman landed me in the hospital

Another celeb encounter gone very, very wrong...

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/22/46081/ It was around 1999 when I first heard through mutual acquaintances that Paul Reubens, AKA Pee Wee Herman, liked ...

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 ...

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