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What Are You Doing Here?
I mean, besides gracing the Reader with the gift of your visit? Thank you for that. Still, there's something to be said for heading over to the San Diego Film Festival website and letting their Festival Genius guide you through …
The Crazy Credits, Crawls, and Cautionary Warnings Quiz
All these quizzes and I can't even get past the credits! Here is a collection of crazy characters culled from closing crawls, one-of-a-kind credits, and offbeat advisory openers. There's even a typo! Your mission, should you decide to accept it, …
"Hitchcocktober" Returns to Reading's Gaslamp and Town Square Cinemas
We're coming up on Halloween, so that means it's once again time for Reading Cinemas to turn a couple of their screens over to birds, Bates, and bottles of nuclear-powered champagne for their annual “Hitchcocktober” celebration. A classic film directed …
Puss In Boots Makes a Personal Appearance in San Diego
While visiting Disneyland earlier this year, the nice folks at Critter Country told me I could get my picture taken with Goofy. Some Goof! Turns out it was a pituitary case wearing cloth ears and padded felt buck teeth. Word …
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher headed for Splitsville?
Is Hollywood's favorite May/December romance on its last calendar page? After a six-year marriage made in tabloid heaven, rumors abound that Demi Moore is showing wandering-eyed Ashton Kutcher the door. According to The Star, the couple, who have kept separate …
So what are you doing tonight?
If you answered, "Heading downtown to the San Diego Film Festival to see Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut as he takes on Shakespeare's blood-soaked bloodfest Coriolanus," then congratulations - you are correct! Volde-who?
Reviews!
Working with Mr. Marks must be rubbing off on me — I was more taken with the gutbucket charm of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil than with the Gallic sweetness of My Afternoons with Margueritte. Which is not to say …
A Message from the Semper Fi Fund: Dolphin Tale Drawing Deadline is Tonight
In honor of the release of Dolphin Tale (three stars from David Elliott!), the Semper Fi Fund is sponsoring a drawing to send one U.S. military family on an all-expense paid trip to the Clearwater Aquarium in Clearwater, FL for …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for New Year's Eve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Y2uXjsKjs So many stars! How exciting for them all to be together like this! [Full disclosure: some of these images are from other versions of the trailer.]
Steaks & Classic Cinema in Greystone's Historic Rivoli Theatre Building
The classic movie component will probably amount to little more than the cinematic equivalent of background music, but who cares when you can dine with the ghosts of movies past in the historic confines of San Diego's premier steakhouse? What's …
The Existential Crisis in Footloose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw Many years ago, my older brother Mark and I were hanging out at home, bored and restive, when one of us hit upon the idea of taping a mock radio show - "mock" both in the sense that it …
Free Advance Screening of Footloose Friday at Edwards Mira Mesa
If it's true that Hollywood should only remake bad movies, there aren't too many musicals that reach the level of tedium that Footloose, or as I like to call it, Footstool does. I'm sure that I'll eventually succumb, if for …
The Met’s Live in HD Scales San Diego Movie Screens
Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko in Manon. These days, going to the opera is as easy as going to the movies. How come? Give credit to New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the country’s largest and most prestigious opera company, for bringing works …
The Origins of Catwoman's Costume: REVEALED!
Still no word as to whether Joseph Gordon-Levitt will get to play Robin in the new Batman movie, but hey, at least we have the exciting revelation of Catwoman's costume to tide us over. What's that, you say? You don't …
The Movie Studio Logo Quiz: The Final Confrontation
My hunt for "logoriginality" has taken me through over half my video collection. This is it. The well has run dry. Studios generally do not like having their trademarks tampered with. I visited well over a thousand openings and though …
Short Takes: Abduction
A young man finds his baby photo plastered across a missing persons website. A solid foundation for a thriller wasted on still another attempt to renew interest in director John Singleton’s faded reputation, this time via a Taylor Lautner vehicle. …
Morgan Freeman: Obama Made Racism Worse in America
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has accused President Obama of helping to further drive a shiv between the races. When asked by CNN talk show host Piers Morgan, "Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a …
Free Outdoor Screening of Toy Story 3 Tonight
The good news is, there's a free screening of Toy Story 3 at Liberty Station tonight. The bad new is, summer's over and this will be our last outdoor event of the season. In case you missed the biggest grossing …
Latino Film Festival Looking for Entries
Have you completed a prize-worthy movie that would make a snug fit in a Latino film festival? If so, one of the 155 films screened at this year's fest could be yours! The Media Arts Center of San Diego has …