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Big Screen Movie Reviews
Boyz in the hoods
Screenwriter Kevin Willmott talks BlacKkKlansman
So impressed was Spike Lee by Kevin Willmott’s debut feature, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America that as soon as he saw the picture's Sundance premiere, he offered to act as the film’s presenter. Spike ...
Meet Eighth Grade's star pupils this Saturday
Elsie Fisher and Emily Robinson in town for Q&As
As if an opportunity to relive the last hellish week of grade school weren't enough, the two star students of Eighth Grade will be in town this weekend to celebrate the film's opening. If your ...
Swedish fish and the Oregon Trail
Normally, the lead photo art corresponds with the lead review, but protocol be damned when you hook a whopper like this: a candid shot of Ingmar Bergman posing with Spielberg’s toy shark, Bruce. To commemorate ...
The Digital Gym, five years in
Quick: what was the first film to put the Media Arts Center’s Digital Gym on the map? Having to answer that question produced the first of two blushes from the organization’s founding father and guiding ...
Women in Hollywood
Ocean's 8, Hereditary and more "women's pictures" among this week's new movie releases
Well, director Colin Treverrow (Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World, and um, The Book of Henry) went and gave a barn-burner of an interview to the good people at Uproxx that should have folks talking about ...
Romance on the rocks
Maybe the On Chesil Beach kids should have stayed at the Carlyle, and other new movie releases
Love is hard. Sometimes, it's going well, and the past intrudes in unexpected ways. Sometimes, it's going well, and you hit an unexpected squall. Sometimes, it's going well, and someone murders your wife and all ...
Johnny Knoxville, helicopter parent
"When they say something naughty, I’m laughing harder than anyone. But when it comes to their safety, I get really squirrely."
When a newscaster comes on the radio to report on a robbery foiled by an officer on duty, my mind instantly leaps to an image of a cop standing in a pile of doody. Needless ...
Seats and screens and sci-fi spectaculars
A moviegoer's reserved behavior
As a fan of both the Saw franchise and the two big houses at the Reading Grossmont, I reasoned that there was no better multiplex in the country to watch an opening-day showing of Jigsaw. ...
"You're tearing me apart!"
James Dean has nothing on Ryan Reynolds in this week's new movie releases, including Deadpool 2 and The Desert Bride
I've been on about this before, but one of the things that make so many superhero punch-ups so deadly dull is the Toughness Inconsistency Index, which states that the amount of punishment a hero can ...
Marks madness
Scott Marks covers the movie front for this week's new releases, including Wildling and Tully
For a while there, Ye Olde new release schedule seemed to be waving a blank white flag of surrender: "Oh, Avengers: Infinity War, we know better than to try to compete with your awesome earning ...
You can't have anything bigger than Infinity
Avengers: Infinity War doesn't leave much room for other new movie releases
This week's big new release is very big: Avengers: Infinity War is here to mash up The Avengers, Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and probably a bunch of other stuff into ...
Local boys make good
San Diego shines in this week's new movie releases, thanks to The Endless
Look, even Homer nods. So yes, we missed A Quiet Place. Happily, a whole bunch of people found it without our help. Hooray for smart (by all accounts), small-budget horror! You know, like The Endless, ...
"Are you serious?"
More new movie releases than you can throw a tennis racket at, including Borg vs. McEnroe and Beirut
Well, we tried. We made it to Sgt. Stubby, You Were Never Really Here, Beirut, Baja, Rampage, and Borg vs. McEnroe. Aardvark and Sweet Country should be up before 5 p.m. (UPDATE: Okay, 10 p.m. ...
Critter cinema
Animals arrive in this week's new movie releases, including Pandas and Tehran Taboo
Let's start with the big new release: for some reason, there's a rooster in the poster for Blockers, a movie about parents trying to preserve their daughters' virginity. What's that about? (Cue Beavis & Butthead ...
