Tyson and Marks: ham fist meets kosher ham
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/07/41303/ Two years ago I'd have laughed in the face of anyone who said one of the high points of writing a movie blog for The Reader would be time spent with a sports figure in town trying to reinvent …
Review: Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
"Anyone see Tyson?" the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world asked the packed crowd at last night's performance of Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. Mike was referring to James Toback's 2008 documentary. "I love James Toback and all," he continued, …
What a difference a Doris Day makes (especially when it's Jean Seberg)
The Huffington Post ran this picture under the headline, "Doris Day's Hat Makes our Day." http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/05/41143/ If that's Doris Day them I'm Rock and Baby Jane Hudson. With all the money Arianna Huffington ran off with when she sold out …
San Diego Latino Film Festival runs March 7 - 17
Feliz 20 Aniversario del Centro de Artes de los Medios!
You'll find the San Diego Latino Film Festival's digital program book here. Turn to festival founder and director Ethan van Thillo's welcoming remarks. The first words written do not befit someone who has been in the festival business for 20 …
Something's rotten in the Emerald City
"Do you think it's going to be 124 minutes of effects-driven crap, Toto?"
James Franco and the pillarbox black-and-white sequences held my interest long enough for this anamorphic admonition to appear: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/mar/04/41053/ When was the last time Sam Raimi gave us anything original to look at? Evil Dead 2? The Quick and the …
Review: The Last Exorcism Part II
Shouldn't it be "The Last Exorcism, Too?"
Doesn't the word 'last' in the title automatically make it subject to limitations? The Last Exorcism was supposed to be the last exorcism, right? What's with this 'Part II' baloney? Things were going so well for Nell (Ashley Bell) in …
What Oscar has joined together, let no exhibitor break asunder
The Lee Marvin double feature from hell! First, Lee at his drunken, Oscar-winning laziest in Cat Ballou, followed by a slob-turn as the kaput baseball player (and only spark of life) in a well-intentioned garbage scow of a gabfest directed …
Consumer's guide to finding movie reviews in The Reader
There seems to be some confusion over where to find movie reviews on The Reader. Reader regular, Monaghan, has been on us like a cheap suit the past couple of weeks. Yesterday he wrote, "Reader readers are DYING for some …
10 reasons why Steve Spielberg will be jury president at Cannes Film Festival
'Oscar-winning director' isn't bad enough. Now he's 'President Spielberg!'
10.) They'll save money on electricity by illuminating the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès with high beam flashlights. 9.) John Williams would only agree to score the show if Spielberg was involved. 8.) He'll borrow buddy Bob Zemeckis' equipment …
Ephemeral Groucho
The blog has been a bit Groucho-heavy of late, but while researching Sunday night's Live Oscar Blog, I stumbled across a handful of material that is new to The Big Screen. Consider a moratorium on Groucho posts now in effect. …
Ninja III: The Domination coming to Blu-ray
There is no such thing as a bad genre
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40831/ There was a time in my life, several years before Jackie Chan forced me to rethink my stance, where you couldn't pay me to watch a karate movie. I had stumbled into a few simply to see what all …
Interview: Mike Tyson
My 10 minutes in the ring with The Champ
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/27/40801/ So give him a stage where this bull here can rage. Mike Tyson is coming to town. The legendary boxer brings his one man show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, to San Diego’s Balboa Theatre for one night only on …
Groucho Marx was boy soprano in an Episcopal Church choir!
You don't believe me? It says so in this cartoon. You bet your Captain Roscoe! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/26/40767/
New rules for Oscar shows
A modern day Joe Barbera riding herd over a three-and-a-half hour orgy of inanimate self-veneration
Last year it was Minny's pie. This year it's Life of Pi. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/25/40652/ We were forced to do business with Seth MacFarlane. I don't like his kind of TV people. I don't like to see him come on this clean …
Review: Hansel & Gretel Get Baked
It's better than anything Tommy Wirkola had to show us
For 420 eyes only. After hearing the title I asked, “Did Harvey Weinstein go stark raving mad and produce an animated children's comedy about the Holocaust?” Technically, it's not a cartoon, but there is a yellowed German passport with a …
Don't forget this Sunday's Live Oscar Blog!
Will it be Lincoln or Argo? Hunt or Field? Zeitlin or Lee? Phoenix or Washington? France or Dick? Who cares? We'll goof on all of them and more during The Big Screen's annual Live Oscar Blog! I've already submitted my …
It's 'Take Aim at Marks Day' at The Reader
A pair of socks from Holman and Grimm
Lickona told me to expect a gift from Reader publisher, Jim Holman, and features editor, Ernie Grimm. While putting in a rare personal appearance at the office, Matthew overheard Jim tell Ernie, "Well, that wraps it up for Marks." Paranoia …
Trailer Park: Hansel and Gretel Get Baked
The 02/22/13-02/28/13 edition of Gaslamp Programming Chart, my favorite weekly email, just arrived and with it news of 10pm only screenings this Friday and Saturday night of a new cinematic sensation. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/feb/20/40468/ Hansel and Gretel Get Baked? Did Harvey Weinstein …
Martin Scorsese first director named Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities
He's movin' on up!
Shpilberg may take home another Oscar for Lincoln, but Marty is the first director to take home a Jefferson. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has asked Him to deliver the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Here's hoping …
The Ten Commandments of Hollywood trailers
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