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Journalist Overpowers Texting Theatre Patron With iPad
To paraphrase Norma Desmond, android phones are smart. It's the operators' brains that got smaller. The iPad proved mightier than the iPhone in an electronic battle to the finish in a Los Angeles movie theatre. iPad: Bringing a Gun to …
Dig a Hole: Gone With the Wind Actress Ann Rutherford
She played Mickey Rooney's go-to girl, Polly Benedict, in M.G.M.'s durable Andy Hardy series, and appeared as Scarlett O’Hara’s youngest sister in Gone With the Wind. Ann Rutherford, one of the last surviving cast members of GWTW, has died at …
Midnight Madness Returns In Style to The Ken
You have to take the Spielberg and Rocky Horror with the good, but the schedule of midnight movies at The Ken is a terrific excuse to spend your weekends staying up late this summer. True, there are Ninja Turtles, a …
New Drive-In Will Be San Diego's 1st New DI Theater Since 1966
The Full Moon Drive-In has announced their debut weekly screening will take place in a converted space at Pacific Beach Middle School, set up as a kind of third-scale model of the classic drive-in theaters that used to flourish in …
Dig a Hole: Frank Cady, Hooterville's Sam Drucker
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/11/26029/ Hooterville wholesaler -- and a character actor responsible for providing audiences with many a hoot -- has died. Frank Cady, who played Sam Drucker, the bald-headed general store proprietor who served the townsfolk in The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, …
Prometheus: Let's Talk About David
What, did you think we were finished? [Yes, more spoilers.] Okay, so let's suppose Peter Weyland wasn't delusional - that we really are the new gods, thanks to our ability to create super-lifelike androids like David: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOJl5lWNfM (Or super-handsome androids …
Prometheus: Two More Possibilities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxdAWrsag8 Speaking of that fake TED talk that Prometheus used in its publicity campaign, and speaking of last week's Questions for Discussion, here's one last possibility for who's who in the reboot of the Prometheus myth, courtesy of Peter Weyland: …
Very Short Lists: Prometheus Edition
Today's entry: older actors who could have played an older version of Guy Pearce's Peter Weyland character more convincingly - and more movingly - than Guy Pearce in old-man makeup: Max Von Sydow Seriously, Prometheus people. I get that it …
Prometheus: Questions for Discussion.
You know, for after you've seen it... It should go without saying that there will be spoilers here. In the original Prometheus story, Prometheus steals fire from heaven for the sake of man, and is punished by having his liver …
Media Arts Center Announces June Workshops Featuring Maya 3-D!
It took a moment (and a phone call to SD Latino Film Festival programmer Glenn Heath) to sort things out. Was the ever-industrious Maya Kroth set to teach the Media Arts Center's class on 3-D and Lighting Design for DSLR …
HellrAIDSer?
So this was interesting: "Legendary horror maven Clive Barker -- who's responsible for the 'Candyman' and 'Hellraiser' franchises -- gave his ex-boyfriend HIV ... and then kicked him out on the street ... this according to claims in a new …
Mainly Mozart Welcomes Oscar-Winning Peter & the Wolf
San Diego’s Mainly Mozart Festival will soon do something it has never done before: Present a movie with live orchestra accompaniment. The movie is Suzie Templeton’s Peter & the Wolf, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film …
More Reviews!
An afro wig. Chris Rock is just playing us now. Don't forget, I Wish and Where Do We Go Now? are finally opening today, even though they were reviewed last week... In other news: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Or, …
The Kid With a Bike Continues its Exclusive Run at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas
Mea culpa continues to runneth over the amount of misinformation this blogger unleashed concerning the La Paloma Theatre, 471 South Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. The La Paloma is alive and thriving, showing movies every night. You have one more week …
My Favorite Image from the Trailer for Tarantino's Django Unchained
Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino - Trailer... by 6ne_Web No, it's not Jamie Foxx doing his best impression of Buster Brown [Ed. - dirtiest rap name ever?]: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25802/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25803/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25805/ Silly Django - time was made for slaves! No, as …
Nostalgic Complications
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMA2u_OPzY&feature=relmfu So I attended a screening of Rock of Ages last night, and because it's in the trailer above, I'm not breaking any embargoes when I tell you that in one scene, Catherine Zeta-Jones leads a bunch of angry anti-rock …
Charlize Theron, Conflicted Soul
Charlize Theron's Queen Ravenna from Snow White & The Huntsman has a definite goal. But apparently, Charlize Theron's Meredith Vickers from Prometheus isn't really feeling supportive. All dialogue taken from the films' respective trailers. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25788/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25789/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25790/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25791/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/07/25793/ Also, …
Reviews!
What is the sound of a thousand fanboys sighing disappointedly? Prometheus, writes David Elliott. "The story is a lurching carnival of budget blasts. The 3-D does not much help stuff such as the storms of metallic dust. This movie could …
Four Walls and a Bag of Corn for Father's Day
Thinking back on all the films my father took me to it's a wonder I'm not a plumber instead of a film critic. Dad carted me to everything from Call Me Bwana and Billie to The Longest Day and The …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for The Bourne Legacy
It's not that it's a retread of the Matt Damon Bourne movies. It's that it's a retread of...everything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VrcOv5jHwk http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/06/25705/ "There is nothing that you wouldn't do for this country." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/06/25706/ "What are you prepared to do?" (And while …