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Free Outdoor Screening of Avatar Saturday Night
It's going to be a perfect night to get lost in a long movie under the stars. The Liberty Station website lists the TRT of tonight's installment of Summer Movie Mania as 5 to 10 pm. Is that with or …
Short Takes: Colombiana
With Angelina Jolie far too eminent to lower herself to grace yet another gratuitous female-empowerment blockbuster, it’s up to Zoe Saldana, an actress Hollywood can’t quite pigeonhole, to this time enact revenge against the male aggressors. The opening sequence -- …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for Hysteria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnwougM4sYo So here we have Hysteria, a film named after lady troubles - "hysteria" translating, of course, as "from the womb." Poor ladies and their nervous conditions. If only there was some way to bring them relief. Basically, a film …
Aretha Franklin Blocks Release of Never-Before-Seen Sydney Pollack Documentary
Recorded live over two nights at at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in January 1972, Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace went Double Platinum and remains her biggest selling album to date. A four-man 16mm film crew, led …
(More) Reviews!
Look, it's late August. Movies are released on weekends like this one because, well, they have to release something, don't they? So yeah — Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, written but not directed by creepmeister Guillermo Del Toro. That's …
Reviews!
This is getting silly. I swear these weren't there a day or two ago. But be that as it may, you need to read: David Elliott pumps up The Whistleblower, Salvation Boulevard, and Crime After Crime, but lets One Day, …
A Closer Look at the Trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scy56-_mr3k Okay people, think product placement. Those heads don't just light themselves on fire, you know. We got bills to pay. What's that, Susan? You've got something? Let's take a look... Perfect. Let's break for lunch.
Dig a Hole: Jimmy Kimmel's Uncle, Frank Potenza
Every obituary I've read of Frank Potenza invariably includes the word "beloved" in the opening paragraph. It's a privilege to echo the sentiment and follow the flock for a change. Earnestly blithe former New York City cop, Frank Potenza, best …
Local Drummer Featured in New Documentary
The New Regime has released a 24 minute documentary on the making of the new album Speak Through The White Noise. The piece chronicles 22-year-old Ilan Rubin's journey from being in Lostprophets to joining Nine Inch Nails, all the while …
Local Singer & Ramona Footage in Quiet Riot Documentary Film
The Quiet Riot documentary film partially shot at Ramona Mainstage on January 28, featuring San Diegan singer Mark Huff as their new frontman, will be released in early 2012. A YouTube trailer for Well Now You’re Here There’s No Way …
Local Oscar-Winner Cameron Crowe Commandeers Pearl Jam Twenty
Homegrown filmmaker Cameron Crowe, writer/director of Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, has announced the release of his first feature length rockumentary, Pearl Jam Twenty. The film chronicles how Pearl Jam managed to survive all of rock's pitfalls to become one …
Sunday Sunday! Sunday! Cinema as NASCAR-Event Sponsor
The fact that "rear-engine, fuel-injected funny car" has become part of this media-addicted sportsophobe's pop-culture lexicon is a testament to the nimble persistence with which rapid-fire announcer Jan Gabriel and the folks at Smokin' US30 Dragstrip kept their radio and …
France, home of "The Three Musketeers"
No, I'm not exactly sure what the quotation marks around "The Three Musketeers" are supposed to signify. Why don't we ask these fellows? What's that? Take a closer look at the fine print on the left? Okay... France, France...I feel …
Today in Disputable Claims: "The fans have spoken!"
Did this dude grow a metal beard and get metal wrinkles under his eyes when he got old, or was he made that way? Discuss. Press release just came in announcing Transformers: Dark of the Moon's triumphant return to IMAX …
Overheard at Disney: "Hey guys, remember when we were cool?"
Had occasion recently to watch the better-than-decent documentary The Pixar Story. I saw it on Netflix, but of course, it's also on the morally ambiguous YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgpKWdIGl-c&feature=related At any rate, there's a lot of talk about Disney in there. Not …
Video Tyme: Premiere of The Super Dentists Strike Back at Vista's Krikorian Theater
Well, that was fun! Following the Super Dentists' Super Car to the Theater! http://vimeo.com/28027126 Interview with supporting cast members Brandon Rowley and Ron Gay! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsfOXczHnkg As he mentioned, Rowley starred in the Super Dentists' first film, way back in 2004: …
Sean Penn Cannot Tell A Lie, Takes Ax to Malick's The Tree of Life
Used to be an actor went public with negative feelings concerning a project they were involved in and s/he wasn't long for a career in Tinseltown. Sean Penn's refreshingly candid thumbnail assessment of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life was …
Local Premiere: The Super Dentists Strike Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4u0YjLUBmA Tomorrow morning, Vista’s Krikorian Theater will play host to the sold-out, red-carpet premiere of The Super Dentists Strike Back, the latest project from the pediatric dentistry and orthodontics practice of Drs. Nazli Keri and Kami Hoss. (Your humble correspondent …
Short Takes: Fright Night
Was this remake really necessary? A one-mile square housing development situated in the middle of the Las Vegas desert is now the setting for a digitized-facelift of Tom Holland’s ho-hum 1985 cult horror item. No one believes Anton Yelchin’s claim …
That's it, I quit.*
Some days you wake up, and the sun is shining, and the breeze is blowing, and the birds are singing, and your hangover is slightly less brutal than usual, and you think, "By God, there are a lot of problems …