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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 ...

Black spot/one star

Two sides of a fine line

So I black-spotted Monsters University, in part because of its hackneyed plot: lovable band of losers must rally via their ...

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 ...

Chilling, exclusive images from World War Z!

Dept. of No, Not Really

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/18/47725/ Zombie hordes fill the streets of New York City. Mindless, soulless, bent only on consumption, they prepare their assault ...

Clean slate: A brief pictorial tribute to the clapboard

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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.

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 ...

"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 ...

Happy Flag Day!

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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 ...

Interview with The East director and co-writer Zal Batmanglij

The East tells the story of Sarah (co-writer Brit Marling, interviewed here), a rising star at a private espionage agency ...

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 ...

Someone spank crybabies Lucas & Spielberg and send them to bed without their suppers

WAAAAAAAA! There's "eventually going to be an implosion in the film industry." WAAAAAAAA! Lincoln was 'this close' to going to ...

A gallery of 33 vintage posters from Hollywood's Golden Age of cartoons

Feature length theatrical releases were not the only films to get the royal ballyhoo treatment back in the day. Posters ...

Man of Steel, Man of God

Sigh.

"Have fun with this!" read the email from my Jewish fellow critic. Good fellow that he is, he was leaving ...

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