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Movie Reviews
I really wanted to use a live cat
Director Charlie Bean gives background of Lego Ninjago Movie
At the Lego Ninjago Movie press conference held last week at Legoland Carlsbad, a child asked the film’s assembled cast and crew, “What happened to the cat?” The tot was referring to the monstrous beast ...
Anne Frank in the attic
Local Matt Sivertson’s first feature, Love All You Have Left
A private message arrived from local actress (and new Facebook friend) Caroline Amiguet asking that I attend this Friday’s screening of her husband Matt Sivertson’s first feature, Love All You Have Left, in which she ...
Here It comes
Horror flick heads up this week’s new movie releases
It is out, but is It good? Well...there are good bits. But it doesn’t touch Get Out as the year’s best horror flick. Because the real horror is the evil that men do. The monster ...
Film Events
Carlsbad Film Series: Get on UpSchulman Auditorium at Carlsbad City LibraryWednesday, September 27, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Carlsbad Film Series: FencesSchulman Auditorium at Carlsbad City LibraryWednesday, October 11, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
The PlaygroundReading Cinemas Town SquareThursday, October 12, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
GhostbustersLiberty Station MarketplaceSaturday, October 14, 8 p.m. |
Filipino American Arts & Culture FestivalSchool of Creative and Performing ArtsSaturday, October 21, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
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Will make anyone who didn’t go to community college glad of it
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Community
Neil Patrick Harris, in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, is at his finest as a villain you almost have to root for. His musically inclined attempt at trying simultaneously to woo the girl and join a ...
Movie Archives
Carpinteros (Woodpeckers)
Writer-director José Maria Cabral lets dialogue and visuals win over plot and character in his tale of love behind bars in the Dominican Republic, but his casting, setting, and medium-shot storytelling are so good that it almost doesn't matter. So ...
Cover Girl
Gene Kelly made his first big Technicolor splash while on loan to Columbia for this Rita Hayworth vehicle. It marks the first partnering of Kelly and then choreographer Stanley Donen. (The two would later collaborate on such M-G-M musical milestones ...
Hustle
Robert Aldrich's slightly feverish vision of the assorted dreamers and schemers in the City of Angels, over their heads in hot color and murky shadow. Scriptwriter Steve Shagan's post-mortem on a teen-age runaway, apparently a suicide, is teasingly well plotted ...
