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Trailer Park: The Iceman cometh
I'm such a purist that the thought of watching even so much as a trailer on my computer is hateful. As much as I love the damn things, critics seldom see coming attractions before press screenings. Fortunately, I attend enough …
Death is coming.
Look, it's Good Friday, the day Christians believe God died. Even if you're not a believer, it's a pretty deathy day, full of reminders that death is coming for you, too. Why not spend a couple hours of your ever-diminishing …
New movie releases opening this week
After several scheduling delays, Lore is finally in theaters. I really thought I was over WWII films. But this one, set after the war has ended and telling the story of German children coming to grips with the sins of …
Tribeca Film Festival crowns celebration with The King of Comedy
The closing night presentation at this year's Tribeca Film Festival is a 30-year-old Jerry Lewis picture. No, not Slapstick of Another Kind, but Marty's sublime The King of Comedy. Face it, what else out there that can even come close …
Encinitas filmmaker killed in shooting
John C. Upton was not a household name. His films contained no special effects or big name stars. The documentary filmmaker was best known for his crusade to save the lives of countless Romanian orphans from the deplorable conditions they …
Hey everybody, remember Vacation?
You know, the one with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo?
Yeah, well, they're in talks to reprise their roles in the inevitable reboot. But you know what I'd rather see? A straight-up remake. A couple of casting suggestions: Mark Duplass as Chevy Chase: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/28/42758/ Amy Poehler as Beverly D'Angelo: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/28/42759/ …
Ashley Judd makes history!
First movie star not to survive the trailer
Never mind that Ashley Judd recently announced she won’t run for the Kentucky Senate seat. Her entire performance in Olympus Has Fallen is contained in the preview. Unless I'm mistaken, Judd is the first movie star in history not to …
Interview: Robert Forster has risen!
I fell in love with Robert Forster through his characters many years ago. Meeting Bob when he passed through town for a Cinema Society of San Diego screening of Diamond Men several years ago only confirmed my fervancy. The Olympus …
Trailer Park: Pain & Gain: Michael Bay doesn't care about your stinkin' lyrics, man
I mean, the name of the song is "Thrift Shop."
So there's a red-band trailer for Michael Bay's bodybuilding caper movie Pain & Gain. I can't embed it because I'm an idiot, but it's over here. The main thing is that the trailer uses Macklemore's earworm "Thrift Shop," a song …
Review: War Witch
More well-intentioned ugliness trawling for Oscar. Canada’s official entry for the best foreign language film of 2013, and one of the five nominated pictures, begins promisingly enough with a young mother recounting her life story to her unborn child. Komona’s …
Tyler Perry's Confessions of a Marriage Counselor poster: Tyler Perry is just messing with us now
Right?
I mean, he knows how reviled Showgirls was, doesn't he? Or is he one of those hardy few who believes it to be a secretly brilliant satire? Who can say? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42606/
Six-second beefcake: Hugh Jackman stars in world's shortest preview for The Wolverine
You've heard of The Vine, right? Six-second video site? Well, they landed their first movie trailer yesterday, for The Wolverine. Six seconds. That's not a lot of time to give us multiple shots of shirtless Hugh Jackman, but give 'em …
How much is that actress in the glass booth?
Tilda Swinton turns sleeping into an art form
Turn about is fair play. After having put audiences to sleep with three Chronicle of Narnia films, Tilda Swinton returned the favor by taking a 6 hour catnap for all to see last weekend at New York's Museum of Modern …
Lucasfilm Ltd? More like Lucasfilm STD, amirite?
How did I ever miss this?
Over at Sideshow Collectibles, you can now get yourself a Gamorrean Executioner. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42571/ A Gamorrean Executioner. That's one slip of the tongue away from a Gonorrhean Executioner. The mind reels. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42572/ Imperial Stormtroopers? Venereal Stormtroopers. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/26/42574/ Lando Calrissian? Lando Chlamyidan. …
Hollywood 'wiggers'
A brief pictorial (or in the case of Marky Mark, pectoral) history of 'wiggers' on film
Don't kill the messenger. I no sooner coined the term "wigger" than D.W. Griffith invented racism for The Birth of a Nation. Urban Dictionary defines wigger as, "A male caucasion (SIC), usually born and raised in the suburbs that displays …
Weinstein Company announces plan to distribute Salinger doc
Privacy, meet publicity
Harvey Weinstein is surely one of the greatest huckster-hustlers Hollywood has ever known, and possibly the best Oscar campaigner ever. He is a past master at pushing his product under everybody's nose. Pretty much the exact, total, polar opposite of …
Mickey Mouse, izzat you?
A brief glance at Mickey mockery.
When I interviewed Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit, a while back, I noted with wonder the fact that the film got Disney to sign off on a scene in which Mickey Mouse collaborates with Bugs Bunny to pull …
New releases opening this week
Well, dog my cats, Scott Marks has fallen for Olympus Has Fallen! Gerard Butler invades the White House and Mr. Marks' critical sensibilities! Also, when the aliens from the future have to sort out the history of the world based …
Bowery boy Scorsese pens impassioned plea to preserve old neighborhood
It was the first story to cross the transom this morning. Groggy me reached for the nearest pair of Big!Lots readers in order to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks and that Marty had not announced plans to resurrect …
**L@@K** RARE VINTAGE "CARPETBAGGERS" VHS CHEAP $148.90
The Carpetbaggers is a great way to kill 150 minutes on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Based on a cheezeball potboiler by Harold Robbins, George Peppard has never been better than as a ruthless, spoiled rotten tycoon patterned after Howard Hughes. …