Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Matthew Lickona 6 p.m., Oct. 13
New Releases
Movie Reviews
Movie multiplicity
Lots of new movie releases, including The Foreigner and Trophy
Suffering Sappho! There certainly are a lot of new movie releases this week! (Yes, that’s Wonder Woman’s catchphrase, chosen in honor of the Wonder Woman origin story biopic Professor Marston & the Wonder Women.) And ...
Consider the lowbrow Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
A brisk, brusque, bloody, bawdy Italian cheapie
That thundering synthesized flop you hear is Blade Runner 2049 coming in well below industry expectations; guess you people don’t have much use for highbrow, three-hour sci-fi epics that are long on scenery and short ...
The trials and triumphs of women, synthetic and otherwise
This week’s new movie releases include Blade Runner 2049, The Queen of Spain, and The Mountain Between Us
Ryan Gosling may be at the center of Blade Runner 2049, but he’s surrounded by women: his boss at the police station, his opposite number on the corporate side of the investigation, his digital girlfriend, ...
Film Events
GI Film FestivalMuseum of Photographic ArtsWednesday, October 18, 7 p.m. |
San Diego Arab Film FestivalMuseum of Photographic ArtsFriday, October 20, 2 p.m. |
Filipino American Arts & Culture FestivalSchool of Creative and Performing ArtsSaturday, October 21, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
San Diego Arab Film FestivalMuseum of Photographic ArtsSaturday, October 21, 2 p.m. |
Street Food Cinema: The Nightmare Before ChristmasSan Diego Marriott Marquis & MarinaSaturday, October 21, 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
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Purgatory for suicides and viral outbreak
Wristcutters: A Love Story and The Strain
Wristcutters: A Love Story takes place in a purgatory reserved for people who’ve committed suicide. No one smiles, everyone strolls through the monotony of having no future, and nothing works properly. It’s a boy-meets-girl story ...
Movie Archives
Trophy
An issue-based documentary like this one about big-game trophy hunting from Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau lives or dies by its level of access. (Yes, you're going to have your talking heads making their nuanced observations and your statistical graphics ...
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Sergio Martino’s giallo take on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” is similar to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, but much twistier and trashier and about an hour shorter. (The Shining still wins for sheer quantities of blood, but Vice has ...
Chavela
Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi's documentary of the Costa Rican-Mexican singer, Chavela Vargas.
