PhotosSiobhan Braun and the Reader
Jamul casino, post-college blues, what we hate about San Diego, sex traffic, worst roommates
Siobhan Braun 8:30 a.m., July 21
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Free and legal movies and shows on Tubi TV
Groucho: “I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
What streaming service offers thousands of free and legal movies and television shows? Here to entice are a trio of offerings currently available on Tubi TV. You Bet Your Life (1950) It was the quip ...
The antidote to Crawl: gator flicks with Ed Norton, Burt Reynolds, and Playmate Claudia Jennings
A pet baby alligator, flushed down the toilet, grows to three times its original size before going on a killing rampage
A trio of crocodilian companions to help celebrate the opening of (or act as an antidote to) Crawl. Alligator (1980) Screenwriter John Sayles and director Lewis Teague drew from what they learned while working together ...
The gargoyle doth text
This germoke is hired to prevent possible piracy, not play usher.
Oura Culpa! Mr. Lickona took a vacation and this reporter missed the screening of the much-anticipated Midsommar. Once I ran to advance screenings; now I run from them. Why? Because I would much rather try ...
American movies and the 4th of July
Superman II ruined comic book movies for me
The old man was never one for fireworks. It had something to do with his surviving the Invasion of Normandy. Friends and relatives would take me to see displays of fire-flowers (as my maternal grandpa ...
Three comedies with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
The only constant in the so-called trilogy are vertiginous episodes staged on and/or going out and over a window ledge
From director and star Sidney Poitier comes an unlikely trilogy of comedies. Uptown Saturday Night (1974) An inexplicably tender, untroubled exchange between Steve (Sidney Poitier) and his wife Sarah (Rosalind Cash) prefaces a raucous boy’s ...
The Raft: Director Marcus Lindeen’s drifting documentary
No books were allowed on board; entertainment was limited to singing and swapping stories.
Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés found the inspiration behind his notorious “Peace Project” the day his flight home from a conference on the history of violent behavior was interrupted by a hijacking. Art imitates life, and ...
Authors J.T. Leroy, Truman Capote, The Dying Gaul, and their muses
Spot-on impersonations of otherwise resistible characters
Authors and their muses are the subjects of this week’s binge-watch. J.T. Leroy (2018) Jeremiah “Terminator” LeRoy was a manufactured commodity, the wispy offspring of a prostitute mother that writer Laura Albert (Laura Dern) bamboozled ...
American Woman: Life, not Lifetime
Take a walk through Deb’s hellish, decades-long search for her daughter’s whereabouts
When the Lord said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” He wasn’t referring to American Woman’s Deb Callahan (Sienna Miller). Deb can’t remove the butt from between her lips long enough to cuddle with ...
Telly Savalas trio of terror
A splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror released during the rise of Kojak
Who scares you, baby? Give a lick about this Telly Savalas trio of terror. Lisa and the Devil (1973) Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman ...
