James Gang to land back on Newport
"No Target in OB" T-shirt-makers to be across street from Target
Delinda Lombardo 4:30 p.m., Oct. 20
Big Screen 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 ...
San Diego Arab Film Festival: this week and next
October 20-21 at Museum of Photographic Arts and October 28-29 at AMC Mission Valley
For the past six years, the San Diego Arab Film Festival has piggybacked off its sister fest in San Francisco. The same can’t be said of festival seven. Not only will they be flying solo, ...
Glitzy nostalgia porn
That's why Marvel and not DC
Dear Hipster: So, we have Marvel movies and DC movies, both killing it at the box office these days. November will see Justice League and Ragnarok in cinemas at the same time. What I, and ...
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 ...
Calm down: South Bay IMAX won't be demo'ed
Commercial space will take over some regular theater space
JR has been working at the AMC theater on Dennery Road for almost six years. On Monday (October 9) he dispelled the rumor that the IMAX section of the AMC Classic Palm Promenade 24 theater ...
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 ...
Yes, German satire!
German Currents Film Festival, October 14-15
Think high tide, not slack water when the German Currents Film Festival returns to the Museum of Photographic Arts on October 14-15, bringing with it five films to celebrate its seventh year. Saturday evening’s opening ...
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, ...
John Carroll Lynch's new film, Harry Dean Stanton’s last
Lucky’s actor-turned-director on Stanton’s last stand
“You’re not likely to get a one-word answer out of me,” laughed the as-a-rule loquacious John Carroll Lynch. Lucky marks the actor’s first time behind the camera — directing Harry Dean Stanton in what turned ...
We’ll never be royals...
...but we can watch them on screen in this week’s new releases, including The King’s Choice and Victoria and Abdul
Royals: they’re just like us! King Haakon VII of Norway liked to play hide and seek with his grandchildren and even pretended to have conversations with his grandson’s teddy bear! I mean, he also had ...
How old is Burt Reynolds in Dog Years?
"I was blamed for what anyone didn’t like about Hollywood."
This year's screening list for the San Diego International Film Festival arrived, and it was my task to choose an interview subject. I dreamed big. Remember, this is the same organization that in the past ...
Year by the Sea seems a lot longer
A goopy, by-the-numbers women’s picture
Year by the Sea only feels like a decade. Karen Allen takes the lead in the big-screen adaptation of Joan Anderson’s best-selling memoir, and while the tagline promises, “It’s never too late to reclaim your ...
Victoria and Abdul, out this week
A chat with Shrabani Basu, author of the book on which the film is based
“I think it’s significant,” says Shrabani Basu, “that Queen Victoria, in those days, over 100 years ago, chose to learn Urdu,” the language of a people under her rule. “And that she placed a young ...
A Boston Marathon bombing victim's story
Stronger's director David Gordon Green
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeff Bauman, but don’t expect the Lifetime Channel. Stronger invites audiences to cast aside all fear of drippy sentiment in tight closeup. This tale of an ordinary ...
