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Baby + gun = Facebook fun!
Last night I gave my friend's son a guided tour of the 3 Stooges short, Three Loan Wolves. Dad walked in the second this enchantingly incorrect image hit the screen: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36860/ "That should be your Facebook profile photo," my pal …
Give the gift of cinema this Christmas
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/10/36726/ It's a bleak holiday movie season at the commercial multiplexes, but there is always something worth your time playing at a Landmark or Reading Cinema near you. Just yesterday I visited the Gaslamp and picked up Dragon, a terrific …
Coolest man on earth
Walter Hill's back and Stallone's got him!
It's been almost 20 years since Walter Hill (48HRS., Streets of Fire, Southern Comfort) has rewarded us with anything to look at. My head began spinning the second I saw his name attached to the trailer for Stallone's latest action …
Opening this week
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/07/36604/ With the onslaught of a particularly weak season of Christmas films, you might want to check out a few of the more obsure finds playing our local art screens. Matt was impressed by the "intimate but not sentimental, revealing …
A closer listen to the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
Okay, first off: Benedict Cumberbatch is hugely enjoyable as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, and I liked him just fine in the remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but I'm just not buying the menace here. There's something hollow in the …
North County Times says goodbye to longtime film critic Dan Bennett
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/06/36564/ Who is this Wire Service and why is s/he getting all the plum film reviewing jobs? It's not for certain, but chances are Dan Bennett's reviews will be replaced by those off the wire. Dan left the North County …
Dept. of High Concepts: Christmas caper edition
Philip Seymour Hoffman must infiltrate a gang of high-end mall Santas who are planning to steal a diamond collection currently displayed at a jewelry store in the Beverly Center Mall in Beverly Hills. Take it from there, Hollywood. Here's some …
Strange Cinema presents Blue Velvet
The Museum of Photographic Arts (1649 El Prado) features David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986, 120 min.) tomorrow night, December 6, at 7 p.m. The film is part of the Museum's Strange Cinema series, which "delves into the creative process and …
A few more casting possibilities for Johnny Depp's Don Quixote
Can't help myself; this seems to be sort of a rich vein. Lessee, you could go bro and match up Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill again: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/06/36554/ (I have to hand it to Tatum: Magic Mike proved that he's capable …
Depp the Don
Hoooooooo boy. Johnny Depp is gonna make a Don Quixote movie, and it's gonna be a "modern re-imagining" of the story (which story, by the by, is about a guy who pretty much detests all things modern). It's true that …
Roll up for the re-release of Magical Mystery Tour: The TV movie (Dec. 14)
The Beatles 1967 home movie remastered and documented for PBS documentary
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/05/36531/ Waaaaay back in the 1980s, when I got my first home VCR (a technological marvel that seemed like the height of space age tech at the time), the first two tapes I rented at the nearby Wherehouse on University …
Pac-Arts Movement screens The Thieves tomorrow
Korean blockbuster plays Arc Light one night only
Pacific Arts Movement closes out the year tomorrow night with a screening of the biggest money maker in the history of Korean cinema. Pac-Arts has selected The Thieves for their final quarterly screening of 2012. The crime thriller directed by …
Happy birthday to the King, and I don't mean Elvis!
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/05/36492/ Leave it to me to quote a mass murderer’s meditations on the true architect of rock 'n' roll, but I recall an interview with Richard Speck where the killer of 7 student nurses said, "If Little Richard was white …
Please stand by
Technical difficulties here at The Big Screen. But to help pass the time, why not watch The Ring? I was chatting with my co-blogger Scott the other night about scary movies, or rather, movies that scared us, and I confessed …
Say "I do" to Chris Martinez's I Do Bidoo Bidoo
Only 3 days left to see it at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15
Forgive me from coming so late to the dance. I was in Burbank for a couple of weeks and didn't get a chance to see I Do Bidoo Bidoo until the day before it opened in San Diego. Movie musicals …
Interview with Starlet director and co-writer Sean Baker
Starlet tells the story of an unlikely relationship that develops between two women - a young aspiring actress and a reclusive widow - living in the San Fernando Valley. It opens Friday, December 7, at the Ken Cinema. On Saturday, …
Hee hee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q573_hDhTbE Oh, hilarious. New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein put Pitch Perfect on his Top Ten list for 2012. I really did think I was the only one who was charmed despite myself by this. I have no use …
What happened? Anthony Hopkins
My pal Scott was not impressed with Academy Award Winner Sir Anthony Hopkins' performance as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock. He charges the actor with having "an oscillating accent," and with being unconvincing in general. I'd argue that the one leads …
Quentin Tarantino gives red band Django trailers a personalized touch
First a shout out to RZA, now Brad Pitt
First came Quentin Tarantino's shout out to "my boy" RZA at the head of the Django Unchained trailer that played theatrically before The Man With the Iron Fists. Those fortunate enough to have seen Killing Them Softly this weekend, (Matthew …
Free movies of the week - Martial Arts, Hook and Heathers
Who says there has to be a pattern?
Bruce Lee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWf9ghLF98 Jackie Chan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3gRXLmjkuY Jet Li! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d59rUHcAPNM Captain Hook! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iql7-aO5uH0 Heathers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2OPV6iuk2o