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Trailer Park: Pacific Rim

Okay, so everyone's excited for this, because deep down inside, everyone is still an eight-year-old boy. Except, maybe, you know, ...

Review: Kon-Tiki

My father always envisioned himself dying behind a ship's wheel rather than seated in a Sears recliner. Perhaps that's why ...

Interview: Pierce Kavanagh, San Diego Surf Film Festival co-founder

Festival #2 runs May 8 - 12

I don't know my groms from my salties or a hoot from a shaka. What I'm certain of is the ...

Tribecka

DeNiro's festival recognizes America's premier lunatic

As if "The Big Wedding" were not bad enough, this is the second time this week Robert DeNiro has become ...

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile coming this week to an Albertsons near you

One bun closes, another opens. Last week ended with talk of Costco fans now having to wash down their weenies ...

Outrage at Costco food court: Pepsi replaces Coke

First Hebrews out, Kirkland in, and now this!

Who cares if it has nothing to do with movies? This is vital news the entire San Diego community needs ...

Relief for Gaslamp moviegoers' parking woes

A buck-an-hour at Park It on Market!

It was my first trip to Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15 since the evil monkeys at Westfield's Horton Plaza garage rescinded ...

New releases opening this week: Graceland, Mud, Upstream Color and more

Supposedly, the summer blockbuster season kicked off today with Michael Bay's pastel musclebound nightmare Pain & Gain. But Scott hated ...

Review: 10 reasons why The Big Wedding was an offer DeNiro couldn't refuse

10.) It offered the chance to fulfill DeNiro's lifelong dream of being vomited on in a Katherine Heigl romcom. 9.) ...

DVD Rentals: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/25/44406/ The exact quote escapes me, but James Coburn once said something along the lines of, "When did pictures with ...

DVD Rentals: Flying Leathernecks

World War II had come to an end and the Korean war was just ramping up, but the main motivation ...

Review: La Pirogue

For once a film on the subject of smuggling refugees that is not based on a true story. My initial ...

Dig a hole: Allan Arbus

He had the boogie on his fingers and the hubba-hubba in his soul!

It's one thing to overlook the fact that Allan Arbus was the only actor ever to immortalize screwball comedy director ...

Ashley Judd was not the first actor to die in a trailer!

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/22/44189/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-SShi58cI

The long, long titles: Part 2

Including a special tribute to "Rocky(s)!"

Part 2 in my investigative series of movies with names so long, one title card can't hold 'em. You'll find ...

Digital Gym offers workshops on acting, post-production, and how to make a short film

In addition to being San Diego's latest destination for art and independent films, the Media Arts Center San Diego's Digital ...

I tried to watch Layer Cake and this is what happened

You, dear readers, are intelligent media consumers and also connoisseurs of the web. So you've all seen The Oatmeal's excellent ...

Colonel Sanders, call your agent

I'm not gonna link to the trailer for R.I.P.D., which stands for Rest In Peace Department, because that's hilarious and ...

Review: Future Weather

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44110/ A chain-smoking, beer-sloshing grandmother (Amy Madigan) is forced to attend to her environmentally attuned granddaughter (Perla Haney-Jardine) after the ...

Oblivion: symbolism is fun!

Why, yes, Tom Cruise's character does dress in white and live in an ivory tower above the clouds. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/19/44091/ And ...

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