Exploring the underbelly and outliers
Including 68 Kill, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Logan Lucky, and Menashe
Matthew Lickona 9 a.m., Aug. 18
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Movie Reviews
Exploring the underbelly and outliers
Including 68 Kill, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Logan Lucky, and Menashe
You know what I’d like to do? I’ll tell you what I’d like to do. I’d like to host a redneck film festival. Maybe not this year, what with all the awfulness surrounding disenfranchised white ...
Endless Poetry, very much a picture show
Jodorowsky’s juvenalia journal
With Endless Poetry, Chilean surrealist (super-realist?) Alejandro Jodorowsky continues the fantastical memoir he began in 2013’s Dance of Reality. But where that first film made a tragic-absurdist hero out of young Alejandro’s father — he ...
Kids today — and yesterday
Offspring abounds in this week’s new movie releases, including The Glass Castle and Wind River
A strong week at the movies, if not necessarily a happy one for the kiddies. Not so much the ones in the seats — though we’re not holding out much hope for The Nut Job ...
Film Events
Finding ClevelandChuang Archive and Learning CenterSaturday, August 19, 2 p.m. to 4 a.m. |
Pacific Arts Movement Screening: Blue MoonMuseum of Photographic ArtsSaturday, August 19, 2 p.m. |
Pacific Arts Movement Screening: Blue MoonMuseum of Photographic ArtsSaturday, August 19, 4 p.m. |
Little Italy Summer Film FestivalAmici ParkSaturday, August 19, 8 p.m. |
The World We Live InHappy Science San DiegoSunday, August 20, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. |
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An NBC series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I want to visit the quiet little town of Midnight
Midnight, Texas, is a new NBC series that reminds me a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with its quirky characters, supernatural influences, and murder. Manfred, a psychic able to communicate with the dead, is ...
Movie Archives
The Glass Castle
The latest (and greatest) from Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster) is a moving melodrama graced by an insider sense of humor that can only come from an author who endured every square inch of ...
The King and I
Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner star in Rodgers and Hammerstein's tale of cross-cultural romance(?) between a Siamese king and his children's governess. Directed by Walter Lang.
Annabelle: Creation
Not since Telly Savalas went head-to-head with "Talking Tina" on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone has there been a killer doll as terrifying as Annabelle. This prequel directed by David F. Sandberg conjures up the origins of the devious doll.
