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Review: A Haunted House
The Wayans family withdrew from the Scary Movie franchise after the second installment. With SM5 just around the corner, series co-creator Marlon Wayans decided to beat the Weinsteins to the draw with a Paranormal parody of his own. His scheme …
Jodie Foster's big Golden Globes speech, illustrated
As she said, "I have given everything, up there [on the screen], from the time that I was three years old."
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Studio Ghibli festival at the Ken - UPDATED
An embarrassment of riches for animation fans, other sort of fans as well.
UPDATE - We should have mentioned: these are 35mm prints! Tonight, Friday, the festival opens with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSba9hwCaU Best crawly insect monster ever? Best crawly insect monster ever. Saturday, you get Princess Mononoke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4pxURy5-I …
Opening this week
I hear that some movies got nominated for something or other this week. That's good news, because the new stuff? Not so much - well, except for Amour, the painful French story about old folks that Scott liked. I got …
Afterimage: Django Unchained
What's in a handshake? And yes, spoilers!
Much has been made of director Quentin Tarantino's foot fetish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnVbYKKQ_Y But after seeing Django Unchained, I'm beginning to think maybe he's got a thing for hands, too. Not necessarily a fetish, but a regard for the hand as a …
Oscars overlook ornithological excellence
Doves snub Hawk(e)s
It's bad enough to slight a man in an iron lung, but what about someone trying to transition from skateboarding to acting? At least John Hawkes received a nomination in 2010 for Winter's Bone. Why no love for Tony Hawk's …
National Organization for Women protests lack of protest over Slave Leia figure
Dept. of No, Not Really
In Wake of Outcry Over Django Unchained Slave Action Figures, NOW Releases Statement Accusing Protest Industry of Double Standard http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38221/ "How is this okay?"
And the Oscar nominees are...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/10/38197/ The only way San Diegans have had a chance to see the works of Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain (Tony Manero, Post Mortem) was at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. The Academy's nomination of Larrain's latest, No, for best …
New film by Sundance favorite (and San Diego's very own) Destin Cretton screens tomorrow
"I Am Not a Hipster" screens tomorrow night at 7pm at The Ken.
I do not know what the film is about, nor do I want to know what the film is about until after I see it. What I do know is San Diego filmmaker Destin Cretton has completed a new feature …
Forget about Globes and Oscars: It's Razzie time!
'Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part II' earns nominations in every category
Unlike their vaunted counterparts at the DGA, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the folks who dole out the annual Razzie Awards -- celebrating the worst cinema has to offer for 33 years …
National Crime Museum names their five favorite gangster films
Marty made the cut (of course!) but not for the film you think.
Mother of mercy, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Given the recent glut of mass murders, school shootings, etc., what better time in American history to stop and glorify criminals? To celebrate the release of Warner …
Afterimage: Lincoln
Why that ending?
Remember, this is supposed to be post-viewing chat. Spoilers abound. The other day, Samuel L. Jackson expressed a thought that I suspect has been rattling around in a lot of heads: why didn't Lincoln end after his butler handed him …
Pac-Arts launches Drive-By Cinema next month
It's been a year or two since Lee Ann Kim first ran the concept of Drive-By Cinema past me. After a few experimental outings, the San Diego Asian Film Festival's "mobile film experiment" (and self-proclaimed "very irregular project of Pac …
The Big Screen's live blogcast of the Golden Globes this Sunday
With Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as our hosts, what are the chances anyone is going to be able to stay awake throughout this Sunday night's entire Golden Globes broadcast? We here at The Big Screen will be gracious enough …
A closer look at the red-band trailers for InAPPropriate Comedy and Movie 43
Ooof. First, a word of warning: both of these earn that whole red-band thing. Nudity, foul language, and general rudeness abound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UGVWBSvxl98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VneW1vtcWY Well now. Here we have a couple of "star-studded" ensemble sketch comedy flicks. The first leans harder …
Afterimage: Killing Them Softly
I liked it more when we called it Blogfight! In response to Mr. Lickona's gauntlet-chucking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80nW6AOhTs Special effects have become so much a part of the fabric of contemporary cinema that I began accepting them as a theorem years ago. …
Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D
Will the first picture of 2013 also be its worst?
Out with the mold, in with the spew. Will the first picture of 2013 also be its worst? The cast and crew of Texas Chainsaw 3D try their damnedest to make it so. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/06/37946/ With six Chainsaws to reflect upon, …
Free movie of the week: Django!
No, not the unchained version. The original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEmErQjGptg SPECIAL VIEWING BONUS: Django Strikes Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbzQxgE1ROM
Reading Cinemas 40-Foot Film series goes DCP
'Twas shipping fees that killed the MoPA film series. With round-trip fees running as high as $150 per title (the 182 minute version of El Cid was a budget-crippler) the cost to deliver the print was almost as much as …