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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 ...

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 ...

DVR alert: 41st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47302/ Hold your tongues and rest your sphincters! Last week, the AFI Life Achievement Award went to Mel Brooks and ...

DVD Rentals: Tarzan Triumphs

Me like Tarzan movies!

Me like Tarzan. Too cheap to drop $40 retail on box set. Find Volume 2 in pawn shop. Cost five ...

Review: Andrew Boyd's Adams Ave. '13 Unplugged on Mopeds

Five-star short debuts at America's Finest Film Festival

Quit your day job, Reader Andy; Hollywood is calling. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/11/47269/ Not since Werewolves on Wheels or Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese's ...

DVD Rentals: Reflections in a Golden Eye

Why rent when for the same money you can buy a copy at Big!Lots?

John Huston and cinematographer Aldo Tonti originally envisioned Carson McCuller's story of military base masochism as a golden-hued fairy tale ...

Movies on the half-shell

Oysterfest Music and Food Festival this weekend!

In honor of this year's daylong Oysterfest Music and Food Festival, to be held Saturday at the Marina Embarcadero North, ...

Latin America will soon have access to Sundance Channel

American cable subscribers suffer, why shouldn't our friends South of the border?

The Sundance Channel hit the airwaves in 2006 with a schedule that represented the finest in independent films, world cinema, ...

'Actress' fingered for sending ricin-tinged letters to Obama and Bloomberg

Great career move for Shannon Guess!

Forget about the ricin. The bigger crime is referring to Shannon Richardson, aka Shannon Rogers and Shannon Guess, as an ...

4th row center: Zombie Strippers

You are not likely to find an all-black audience in lily white Bland Diego. The closest we get is Horton ...

Brad Pitt to make 'surprise' appearance at San Diego County Fair?

Doesn't announcing a surprise appearance undercut the element of surprise? Be this as it may, the producers of World War ...

Review: Violet & Daisy

Hollywood never gives me what I really want. When the invite to the Violet and Daisy screening arrived, I thought ...

Review: Wish You Were Here

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/06/46993/ A must to avoid for those planning a trip to Southeast Asia, Wish You Were Here is bound to ...

Dig a pool: Esther Williams

Esther Williams was an odd footnote to movie history. The record-setting competitive swimmer found a place in Hollywood where, in ...

Let the Wright one in

Anders Wright moves to U-T, Glenn Heath assumes position with "City Beat"

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/06/46984/ Congratulations go out to my friends and colleagues, Glenn Heath and Anders, right? Both will soon be covering the ...

4th row center: Yesterday

Seniors or gang-bangers: Who'd you rather share a row with?

An 11:30 screening of an art house picture on a Tuesday morning in Clairemont; I thought it would be just ...