Kid stuff
Children abide (or don’t) in this week’s new movie releases, including The Florida Project and Goodbye Christopher Robin
Matthew Lickona 3 p.m., Oct. 20
New Releases
Movie Reviews
Kid stuff
Children abide (or don’t) in this week’s new movie releases, including The Florida Project and Goodbye Christopher Robin
It’s tough being a kid, especially when Mom is an unemployed stripper. Or a suicidal lover. Or something of a child herself. And then there’s Dad — you know, the distant guy who pushes you ...
From minx to hellcat
The Florida Project: A different sort of Disney movie
“My soul is humbled when I see the way little ones accept their lot,” says Mrs. Cooper at the end of Night of the Hunter. “Lord save little children. The wind blows and the rains ...
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 ...
Film Events
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. |
Tony, The Movie and Community Conversation on HomelessnessSandboxTuesday, October 24, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
Nosferatu, A Symphony of HorrorWhaley House MuseumWednesday, October 25, 10 p.m. to 11:35 p.m. |
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Will Ferrell in a semi-serious role and an interesting premise
Stranger Than Fiction and Stranger Things
Stranger Than Fiction serves up a rare glimpse at Will Ferrell in a semi-serious role. Ferrell is hilarious as Harold Crick, a man who finds his life being “narrated” by an author that only he ...
Movie Archives
The Snowman
There are, to date, 11 crime novels from Norwegian author Jo Nesbø featuring detective Harry Hole, novels which have sold many millions of copies worldwide. So that takes a little bit of the mystery out of how this overstuffed, undercooked ...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Horrormeister Dario Argento establishes his durable and elegant pattern in his first feature: a witness to a crime knows more than he knows he knows. How and when will his subconscious cough it up? More of an atmosphere, more of ...
Psycho
The barrenness of the television-play production and black-and-white image works rather nicely in the early scenes of bleak urban existence — the comfortless hotel room, Janet Leigh's comfortless bra — but Hitchcock seems to be pushing and pleading, later on, ...
