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Top Gun or Bottom?
When Mr. Marks brought the grumpy on Top Gun, he of course did not neglect to mention the whole "gay way" thing. Which pretty much necessitates a mention of this classic bit from the Tarantino School of Acting Like You're …
Observed: Midnight in Paris
Look, I don't get out much, so I don't know if maybe everybody has made the observation that Midnight in Paris is basically Woody Allen's Inception. But in case they haven't, I will.
Top Gun Screening in Oceanside Took My Breath Away
I always said the only way you'd get me to sit through Top Gun again is if a paycheck was involved. For the past two summers it's been my pleasure to team with CommCinema outdoor movies to show films free …
Monkey Awesome
Don't forget, The Hangover Part 2 opens today! Some people are getting all wistful, but this little-seen poster series should clear up any lingering concerns.
Cult Movie Reviews - Velvet Goldmine Channels '70s Glam and Oscar Wilde
The Citizen Kane of rock & roll movies, almost literally - even the framing sequence evokes Kane, with a present-day reporter charged with the task of rediscovering the rise and fall of a long-gone Ziggy Stardust-type rocker. Christian Bale is …
Reviews!
This week, bold Reader critic David Elliott steers his dinghy directly into the path of the Black Pearl, reviewing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Midnight in Paris, Last Night, and L'Amour Fou. And new in the listings: Skateland. …
Elsewhere
As long as we've been kvetching about Titanic and Albert Brooks, here's a little bit of Internet genius that brings them together again for the first time.
Sean Young's Behind-the-Scenes Blade Runner Polaroids
Blade Runner is the anti-Star Wars, the most visually dazzling science-fiction film since Lang’s Metropolis. George Lucas used desaturated colors and weatherbeaten space ships to make his toy future appear bleak and lived-in. It was his answer to the candy-color …
Attention All Puddingheads: Here's Your First Look at Cast Photos From Upcoming Three Stooges Movie!
A friend forwarded me an early draft of the Farrelly Brothers‘ (There's Something About Mary) screenplay for their hotly anticipated revisionist cinematic treatise, The Three Stooges. The project was (at least according to a 20th Century Fox press release) “written …
Ah, the French...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LkDNu8bVU ...who can explain them? I mean, they give us The Rules of the Game... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxs4P6u1EiI ...and then they fall all over themselves for Jerry Lewis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN16NZk0oUo They give the Palme D'Or to a solemn work of religious exploration like …
Dig a Hole: Joseph Brooks, Oscar®-Winning "Life-Lighter" Gone Wrong
Joseph Brooks, commercial-jingle tunesmith, director, screenwriter, and composer of one of the more pestiferous pop tunes of this or any lifetime -- and accused casting-couch rapist -- is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 73. Brooks began his musical …
Anatomy of a Press Photo: Kung Fu Panda 2 Premiere in Los Angeles
(Yeah, yeah, they didn't have 'em pose on the red carpet. Kudos. But the little ones saw it already in Cannes - did they really need to do the paparazzi walk at the premiere?)
Pan's Labyrinth vs. The Devil's Backbone
I’m a big fan of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Not so much his mainstream fare (Hellboy, Mimic, Blade II, et al), but his more personal works such as Pan’s Labyrinth and Devil’s Backbone, for which he even designed the more …
Osama bin Laden, Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You!
This didn't take long. Less than one month after Osama bin Laden succumbed to ballistic trauma, Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to a big screen biopic. According to a studio press release, Oscar®-winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, director …
Hard Breakers' Sophie Monk visits San Diego
Sophie Monk likes the anonymity her time spent in the United States affords her. The chart-topping Australian pop-singer and model-turned-actress can’t walk through the streets of her home town without being swamped by adoring fans, but in SoCal the perfect …
Another Temple Gone
Reader stringer Ken Harrison notes the closing of UltraStar's four-plex at Flower Hill Mall. Now, he writes, "North County residents between south Carlsbad and Carmel Valley will be without a multiplex movie theater." Dark times. Speaking of dark times, The …
Dept. of Cinematic Predictions: Hangover Part 2
This isn't any kind of review, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Hangover Part 2 features more penises than any other wide-release film you will see this year.
Wonderwall w/ George Harrison: Lost 1968 Psychedelic Gem Now on DVD
FINALLY ON DVD: WONDERWALL (1968) – LOST PSYCHEDELIC CLASSIC WITH MUSIC BY GEORGE HARRISON, RINGO STAR, PETER TORK, ERIC CLAPTON, AND MORE Recently, I watched the wonky 1968 Wonderwall movie DVD, with music by George Harrison and psychedelic visual design …
Vintage ads from Fritz Lang's Metropolis celebrate the legacy of Kino International's Donald Krim
Donald Krim (1945 - 2011) I have been wanting to post these vintage Metropolis ads for several days, but other, more pertinent stories kept them on the back burner. Today, news arrived that Donald Krim, president of Kino International, had …
Screenings: The Seven Year Itch
On Friday, the Wife and I visited Cinema Under the Stars for a screening of Billy Wilder's "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (as host Ralph DeLauro put it) The Seven Year Itch, starring Marilyn Monroe and someone else. (Actually, Tom Ewell …