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Linda Lovelace’s local adventures generated over 10 million San Diego dollars
How two locals got rich off the Deep Throat star
With the bio-pic Lovelace opening, purporting to tell the true-life story of world’s-first-porn-star Linda Lovelace (a story she herself frequently revised), here’s a compilation of local-centric Lovelace-related material from several of our various articles on local 1970s/1980s theater operators Vince …
Opening this week: See Fecha de Caducidad at the Digital Gym before it expires
Matthew took the week off for a round of intense behavioral counseling -- that's what he gets for stroking my backside and placing me in the Lickona headlock -- so it's my turn to hip our readers to this week's …
Review: Elysium
This week’s comic book contribution is the third (so far) alternate universe pic to be released in 2013. In each case scenario the future looks old, but the digital worlds of tomorrow manufactured for Upside Down and Oblivion are fun …
Blue Jasmine review makes reader see red
Whom, but my editor, Ernie Grimm, was seated inside Cosmo's in La Mesa, frantically pecking at his laptop, when I dropped in for my morning dose of Joe? "Did you call the new Woody Allen film 'artless?'" he asked, stopping …
Dig a divot: Munchkin Margaret Pellegrini is really most sincerely dead
Will Ruth Robinson Duccini or Jerry Maren be next?
As hole digger I must aver, the Phoenix coroner examined her. And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. Margaret Pellegrini, the hip-switching Munchkin City looker with the flowerpot headdress -- and until today one of only …
It's beginning to look a lot like Oscar
Coming soon to an awards banquet near you
Smell that? Summer isn't over and already Hollywood is casting bait for next year's Academy Awards gala. Last week's pre-game festivities at Reading Cinema's Town Square showcased six trailers -- all surefire Oscar hopefuls -- that contained over twice as …
In a world without Ebert, Marks is named one of three to watch
Slamming a film can be almost as disagreeable an experience as accidentally dropping the word acromegalic when struggling to come up with a nice way to describe a fugly newborn to its beaming parents. It’s quite possible that over the …
4th row center: Fruitvale Station
What kind of mother takes a 3-year-old to see Fruitvale Station, the R-rated true story of a 22-year-old Bay Area resident gunned down by police on New Year's Eve? The kind of mother who, when politely asked to put an …
Volunteers needed for San Diego Asian Film Festival
With the 14th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival just 3 months away, it's time to put out a rallying call for a few good volunteers. SDAFF is looking for conscientious, dependable souls to help with fundraising, graphic design, office …
Casting call: 4 spots remain in Filner biopic, 12 Angry Women
I spotted this curious ad in the back pages of this week's edition of The Hollywood Variety. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/02/50574/
New releases opening this week: Smurfs 2 and who cares what else?
Smurfs 2!
Smurfs 2! Also, More Than Honey, a film about hive colony collapse. And Computer Chess, a film about the rise of the machines. And Blue Jasmine, a film about how Woody Allen makes a lot of movies. And 2 Guns, …
Trailer Park: Seventh Son
That crackling sound you here is Jeff Bridges rapidly burning through all the goodwill he's built up over the years. Because admit it, you left R.I.P.D. thinking, "That wasn't nearly as aggressively stupid as it could have been, and I …
DVD Rentals: The Desperate Hours (1955)
Old Bogie goes head-to-head with an even older Frederic March in William Wyler's violent-for-its-day, terror-in-a-tiny-town nail biter. A trio of escaped cons invade Beaver Cleaver's house. Luckily, the Cleavers didn't move in until two years later. It's current occupants, the …
4th row center: Exercising with Mussolini in Sensurround™
What do you do when an earthquake strikes in mid-movie? Remain seated!
Sunday, April 4, 2010. What better way to spend an Easter Sunday than by once again watching the Nazis fall from power? Easter dinner with the Elliotts was a yearly tradition. (It's phrased it in the past-tense because David and …
Trailer Park: American Hustle
"Sell the sizzle, not the steak" applies here in at least two ways.
Other folks have already commented on the fact that here, at long last, is a trailer that gives you the feeling of a movie without spilling out nine of its ten plot points. That's "sell the sizzle, not the steak" …
Trailer Park: 2 Guns
Wow. I've seen the film, and lemme tell you, Denzel does not ask his boss in the interrogation room, "Did you know he was special forces?" It's one thing when the trailer gives you a scene that didn't make it …
Dig a hole: the San Diego Film Commission
Their website is no more. The final post on their Facebook page says it all: "After nearly 40 years of serving the film industry in the region, the San Diego Film Commission will close its doors today. We thank you …
Casting Katy Perry's Blade Runner sequel the right way.
So Katy Perry announced that she'd like to play Rachael in Blade Runner 2, because of course: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/31/50409/ But wait, you say: Blade Runner 2? Of course. The alternate ending from the "Final Cut" kind of leaves it open, no? …
HERE IS...
It's been a long time since I've tingled. I like tingling. Tingling is good. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jul/31/50406/
Everyone complains about the weather...
...but nobody makes a movie about it. (The Day After Tomorrow doesn't count.)
Remember The Lorax? Pulled in around $350 million worldwide while smilingly castrating one of Dr. Seuss's more urgent moral messages: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot/ Nothing is going to get better. It's not." Why do I …