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Famous Movie Poster Rejects You've Never Seen (Exclusive) Pt. 2
Famous Movie Poster Rejects You've Never Seen Part 2 Today, we're looking at the unseen/unpublished artwork from movie poster campaigns designed to promote Howard the Duck, Fright Night, Vamp (with Grace Jones), Ladyhawk, the Fly, and Sly Stallone's Over the …
Send Your Kids to Media Arts Center's Fall Film Camp
With Thanksgiving and Christmas rapidly approaching, here's a chance to ensure your holiday memories are properly preserved. If your kids spend their fall break at the Media Arts Center's Youth and Media Tech Camp, not only will they be exposed …
Pop Quiz - Star Wars
Is Qui-Gon Jinn's face absent from this display because a) Actor Liam Neeson (pictured in the role) will no longer be a party to this never-ending cash-grab, and has demanded that his likeness be removed from all promotional materials? b) …
Helix High Alum Steve Moramarco Returns to Screen The Great Intervention
What do you do when you are a severely depressed 40-year-old struggling actor who can't find work, is "underwater on his mortgage", and suddenly single after their best girl took a powder? Why not try the cinema-as-therapy plan? With only …
KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando's Alexander "Feeling No" Payne Retrospective Concludes Tonight!
Hey, I remember Sideways! I wrote about it! You know, back in the day! I mean, I mentioned it a lot! Maybe even too much! (And the sad thing is, that's not a complete catalog.) But still, it was a …
The Movie Studio Logo Quiz III: The Heretic
I've already written one review and a "news" item today, so let's kick back and have some fun. As in Round 1 and Round 2 of the game, I post a one-shot logo, you tell me the film it opens. …
Brad Pitt Will Retire From Acting When He Turns 50
Brad Pitt told Australia's 60 Minutes that he will forsake acting three years from now when he hits the "Big Five-O." By retiring from acting, Pitt does not mean another Ocean's installment or a sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. …
Review: The Greening of Whitney Brown
Fandango classifies The Greening of Whitney Brown as an art house/foreign/action/adventure film. They are only half right. It is playing a local art house (Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15), but I must have glanced down at my watch and missed the …
Famous Movie Poster Rejects You've Never Seen (Exclusive) Pt. 1
I'm prepping a Reader feature called Famous Movie Poster Rejects You've Never Seen, with scans of an incredible collection of original artwork and proof prints that I once archived for a client. The collection includes over a hundred HUGE paintings …
Short Takes: The Immortals
Director Tarsem (The Fall, The Cell) has been called a visionary, which presumably means he has an eye for interesting visuals. And that's almost enough to carry you through this bit of buff, burnished bloodshed, a mashup of 300 (invading …
An Ever Closer Look at the Trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman
Poor Charlize Theron. She knows that you can't argue with Magical Negro, especially when he's playing the character of Magical Mirror. That's, like, double magical or something.
A Closer Look at the Trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman, Part 1
Um, it looks...edgy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Dq2psogSw All I'm saying is that we've come a long way from Claudette Colbert's milk bath in The Sign of the Cross. Or maybe not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNNE_U8GOw
A Still Closer Look at the Trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman
Nice to see that they avoided the cliche of the Beast Who Roars... Oh, wait. That's not what happened at all. Never mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Dq2psogSw
J. Edgar Math
Philip Seymour Hoffman Plus Percy Helton Plus J. Edgar, Hoofa! Read David Elliott's * review.
KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando's Alexander "Major" Payne's Film Retrospective Continues Tonight!
I loved About Schmidt, and not just because I'm a miserable old fart. More details here!
Review: Jack and Jill
Pay attention, people, because there is a lot going on in this movie. Let's start with the easy part: Al Pacino, playing himself as a huge star and Shakespearean stage actor who feels lost and unconnected to his humble roots. …
KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando's Alexander "Labor" Payne Retrospective Continues Tonight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXynyyDNz-4 Well, shoot. I was all set to embed the video of the alternate ending to Election that was found on a workprint VHS tape purchased at a garage sale - it was truer to the original novel, and even …
Reviews!
"Keep dreaming, kid." Maybe you didn't need David Elliott to tell you that J. Edgar was "a story already bound, shelved, and turning dusty at the Library of Congress," featuring a "dossier portrait" lead performance from Leo "Marty Who?" DiCaprio. …
Dig a Hole: Sid Melton
The question that will be a topic of conversation for decades to come: Where were you when you first learned of the death of Sid Melton? I posted the news on Facebook — after taking 20 minutes to compose myself …
The Real Brett Ratner Oscar Resignation Story
Brett Ratner has resigned as director of the 2012 Oscars. And while you'll read various accounts of why and how Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences President Tom Sherak and his nonagenarian Board of Directors went from supporting an …