When lobsters hung on anchors in San Diego Bay
The scrap diving era — part two
Ed Davies 8:30 a.m., Sept. 19
Big Screen Movie Reviews
Sex & violence & sex & violence
Flesh and blood in this week's new movie releases, including The Villainess and The Wound
I mean, it's the movies, so what else is new? But still. The Wound has violence done to a bunch of guys' sexy bits. Also, sex and violence. mother! has much more violence than sex, ...
Certified in San Diego
There was something about the freedom of Ocean Beach
“We live in cities you’ll never see onscreen,” sang Lorde on “Team,” trying to make obscurity sound cool but fooling nobody. If it were really cool you wouldn’t have to make a cool song about ...
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 ...
Short-lived TV shows made here
If Netflix's Ted Sarandos reads this...
Simon & Simon was a buddy detective series set in San Diego that ran for eight seasons on CBS during the ’80s. Veronica Mars put a teenage girl in a noirish milieu and managed three ...
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 ...
Remembering Jerry Lewis
A first-hand account
The elevator doors parted just in time for me to spy the hotel maid emptying the contents of a garbage can into the housekeeper’s trolley. We exchanged smiles as she passed, the opulent carpeting of ...
Take comfort, Dane DeHaan: 2017 is three-quarters over
The star has three lackluster vehicles currently in theaters, including this week’s Tulip Fever
Poor Dane DeHaan. He started 2017 by starring in the criminally underrated A Cure for Wellness, then starred in the monumental flop Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and now here he is ...
A Rumble: “Indian” vs. “Native American”
Political correctness rules in critic’s favor
Political correctness is a game one must master in order to keep the paychecks coming. One thing this woefully incorrect chronicler has learned the hard way is: what plays in the head need not always ...
Local boy Dylan Moran makes good, and also makes a movie, Get Big
The kids of today
If last year’s The Edge of Seventeen felt like the kids of today as portrayed by a (smart, sensitive) grown-up, this year’s Get Big is very much the kids of today as portrayed by the ...
The Indians Who Rocked the World
Rumble opens at Ken Cinema September 1
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, is a new documentary that celebrates the contributions Native American musicians made to popular music. The film tells the stories of artists such as Link Wray, Robbie Robertson, ...
Oceanside's feelings ajumble over Animal Kingdom
"I do like it because if it makes us look bad."
The final, 13th episode of the second season of Animal Kingdom airs tonight (August 29) at 9 p.m. TNT announced on August 27 that the series has been renewed for a third season, claiming it ...
Escape to a good time at the movies
Escapes and Good Time are among this week’s new movie releases
It’s stupid jokes week here at The Big Screen... Patti Cake$ fails to rise. Good Time mostly isn't, though it is pretty good. Leap! should take a flying...leap. Lemon is a lemon. The Trip to ...
Scorsese to produce a comic book movie
It’s the death of cinema!
My response is always the same: “I’ll attend Comic-Con when Scorsese puts in a personal appearance.” Be careful what you bitch for. Seven months ago Scorsese proclaimed, “Cinema is gone!”, in effect admitting that he’s ...
Good Time, a soundtrack in search of a movie
An honest portrait, if an unattractive one
My first thought upon leaving co-directors Benny and Josh Safdie’s Good Time (Josh co-wrote, while Benny co-stars alongside an intense, controlled Robert Pattinson) was: A soundtrack in search of a movie. That’s not altogether fair, ...
Escapes, a docu-biography
Who knew that Blade Runner was financed in part by Flipper’s TV dad?
Contemporary documentarians, adrift without historical recordings to help illustrate their case, too often try and pass off stock shots from vintage black-and-white studio releases as the emmes. Michael Almereyda’s docu-biography Escapes never once attempts to ...
