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Beatles Stories screening (Oct. 2), Fab 4 Musical (Oct. 5), and BeatleFair Convention (Oct. 27)
SoCal Beatles fans will find several treats in their October goodie bags. First up is a DVD release and L.A. screening (Oct. 2) of Beatles Stories, a new documentary featuring stories about The Fab Four, told from the POV of …
Opening this week
Phew! Lots going on, folks! Fall is well and truly upon us. Looper is the hot big release of the week, but it left my colleague Scott cold. Pity. I'm a Rian Johnson fan - even liked Brothers Bloom. On …
Interview with Solomon Kane writer-director Michael J. Bassett
That hat! Solomon Kane was the creation of Robert E. Howard, the fantasy writer who gave the world Conan the Barbarian. Kane was that oddest of things, a Puritan superhero, a spiritually pure counterpart to Conan's physical perfection. Lo, these …
Free movies of the week: Educational films 101
No matter how gloomy a day it was outside, nothing brightened the inside of a classroom more than when the teacher pulled down the tattered screen and wheeled out the 16mm Bell & Howell Autoload. The entertainment value found in …
Ben Affleck is a "wonder sperm kind of guy"
While guesting on Ellen, Jennifer Garner let slip a bit of information that many in the entertainment industry have speculated on for years. When asked if she and hubby Ben Affleck planned on having child #4, Garner told the spermophobic …
San Diego Film Festival at MCASD
On Friday, September 28, the San Diego Film Festival will screen four films in the Sherwood Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla (700 Prospect St). Tickets cost $14. Push the Limits begins at 5:00 p.m. This …
Review: Looper
In a dystopian universe that resembles any number of cramped, squalid depictions of a Hollywoodized future, the mob blindfolds finks and sends them 30 years into the past to be whacked by hitmen known as "loopers." There's a catch: when …
Be the first in your town to see Paranormal Activity 4
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/27/32338/ It's seldom you'll find me promoting a film sight unseen, but I must admit to being a fan of this arm rest-grabbing found-footage franchise. It helps that Paranormal 3 & 4 were placed in the hands of the talented …
Interview with The Perks of Being a Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/27/32337/ Stephen Chbosky, left, on the set of the film. The coming-of-age film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on the bestselling YA novel by Stephen Chbosky, hits theaters Friday. To promote the film, the publicity department sent out …
Interview: David Spaltro brings Things I Don't Understand to the San Diego Film Festival
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/26/32293/ David Spaltro found me three years ago while Emulsion Compulsion was still alive and thriving. He had just finished work on his first feature, ...Around, and was looking for critics to review it. At the time I criticized the …
Scenes you probably won't see at tonight's opening of the San Diego Film Festival
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/26/32284/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/26/32283/ On (in?) the other hand, three times would make it a trend! But seriously, tonight marks the opening of the San Diego Film Festival, which bigger than ever this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxIemUNRKw
Betty Boop is back!
The jobless rate must be going down. Even Betty Boop is off the unemployment line! She starred in over 100 Paramount cartoons throughout the 1930's and with the exception of Poor Cinderella the animated cutie has never appeared in color. …
Horton Plaza 14: And then there were 7
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/24/32115/ The "Everything Must Go" signs draped across the windows confirmed the rumor. When Sam Goody's hits the wrecking ball in November, with it goes half of the screens at UA (or do you say Regal or Edwards?) Horton Plaza. …
Can you survive the Shutter Island room at the Haunted Hotel?
Hey, kids. Count Floyd here asking the bone-chilling question, "Baby, why are you wet?" Is it because you've been doused in torrential flop sweat after visiting the blood-spattered Shutter Island room at The Haunted Hotel in the Gaslamp? AAAAAAAAAAAAHH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Nothing …
Last summer movies in the park
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/24/32086/ On Saturday, September 29, The County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation will feature the last two movies of summer. Madagascar (G) will play at the County Administration Center (1600 Pacific Hwy) in Little Italy. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/24/32087/ Puss …
The Laughing Alligator
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is featuring Juan Downey's The Laughing Alligator in the downtown building (1001 Kettner Blvd.). The 28-minute film uses black and white as well as color film. Downey's film is an autobiographical and ethnographic …
Review: House at the End of the Street
It's never a good sign when a major release is not shown to the press ahead of time. (There was a preview last night, but I figured I would wait a day and see it in the big Gaslamp.) Arriving …
Horrible Imaginings
The two-day Horrible Imaginings Film Festival will take place on Monday and Tuesday, October 1-2 at 8:00 p.m. with a pre-lecture at 7:30 p.m. at UC-San Diego's Price Center (Gilman Dr in La Jolla). http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/21/31954/ "On the first day of …
Free movies of the week: Logomania
Given my penchant for posting hopelessly arcane logo quizzes, it's safe to say that I'm a sucker for studio "idents." Last night I cracked open a Big!Lots find that's been parked on the DVD shelf for months. Somewhere in the …
Free movies of the week - the kids are most definitely not all right edition
Kids today, right? With their podcasts and their internet radio. They'll never understand the courage and determination of a pirate deejay like Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw12iur4CPU&feature=related Nor, I suppose, will they be able to sympathize with …