Like a bolt out of the blue, Disney buys LucasFilm
Who cares if the planned sequel sucks? George sold out his fans for $4 billion bucks!
The Force is now with the house the mouse built and that means 2015 will see the first of many Disneyfied Star Wars reboots. Someone call Hayden Christensen and tell him that his career has suddenly been taken off hold. …
Review: Fun Size
"Fun Size" fits all...except its target demographic
Nickelodeon Movies presents a politically incorrect, "hard PG-13" theatrical release that can't possibly air unedited on its parent cable channel. Where's the closest multiplex? Instead of going to a hot boy’s Halloween party, Wren (Victoria Justice) is ordered to take …
Interview: Jonny Weston
"Chasing Mavericks" star pays visit to San Diego
Jonny Weston. The name alone oozes all-American appeal (and marquee value). Charleston, South Carolina native Jonny Weston "grew up surfing." For his first studio film, Weston stars in the biopic of real-life of wave whiz, Jay Moriarty. Weston initially turned …
Retired film critic Gene Shalit gets 'thumbs down' from Massachusetts police
Gene Shalit faces a charge of driving to endanger after the retired Today Show movie critic introduced his car to a utility pole before coming to a stop against a home. OMG! reports the 86-year-old Shalit told Lennox, Massachusetts police …
Opening this week
This week's big opening is Cloud Atlas, a multi-character, multi-narrative collaboration between the enormously gifted Tom Twkwer and the at times entertaining Wachowski Brothers. After struggling with some of the film's high concepts, Mr. L concludes, "the grand-scale visuals are …
Review: The Girl
Hitchcock and bull.
Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas notwithstanding, it is seldom you'll catch me watching let alone writing about a made-for-TV movie. The term itself is an oxymoron and one I haven't had much use for in decades. CBS …
Review: How to Survive a Plague
David France’s documentary about the advancements made in AIDS research, composed almost entirely of archival footage, is not much to look at. Even harder to endure are images of the ravaged victims, which are at times as excruciating to watch …
**L@@K** RARE VINTAGE ORIGINAL UNITED ARTISTS TRANSAMERCA WATERING CAN MINT
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/24/34248/ You are looking at an original UNITED ARTISTS TRANSAMERCA watering can from the early '70's. The design is patterned after the "tire track" logo that opened UNITED ARTISTS films from 1968 to 1980. This watering can is EXTREMELY RARE …
Montgomery Clift: Judgement at 6th & C
Why does this mural located on 6th at C mock me? Am I to be mocked? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/23/34229/ Who better to welcome new citizens to sunny San Diego than a clinically depressed and emotionally tortured soul like Montgomery Clift? Whenever out …
Fun Size fits all!
Dammit, I want to see Fun Size! I am nothing if not a Johnny Knoxville completest. Who says I only like subtitled movies? While it looks to be a safe distance from cinema, for some dumb reason, I laughed during …
National Theatre Live continues at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15
I have yet to attend one of National Theatre Live's presentations, but my pal Jean Lowerison, theater critic for SDGLN , is absolutely bonkers over their productions. This is the Gaslamp's fourth season of NT Live, a group dedicated to …
Married anti-Obama documentarian shows off fiancé at conference on Christian values
Married man has fiance!
This winner of the this year's best "Gee, I didn't know it was loaded" excuse goes to born-againer Dinesh D'Souza, co-director of 2012's biggest grossing documentary, 2016: Obama's America. While attending a conference on Christian values in late September, D'Souza …
Free movies: Anaglyph 3D edition
Let's close the week with a handful of 3D oddities from the copyright snubbing folks at YouTube. All of the clips are presented in the anaglyph (red & blue) 3D. If you didn't get 3D specs when you purchased The …
Review: Alex Cross
Alex Cross is a detective whose powers of deduction border on the clairvoyant; he can look at your shirt and tell you what you’re having for dinner tomorrow night. Alex Cross is novelist James Patterson’s third big screen outing for …
Review: Here Comes the Boom
Wanna' have fun? Go see Here Comes the Boom only pretend it's called The Passion of the Kevin James. It's as much a Christ parable as Raging Bull only "director" Frank Coraci doesn't know it. (And speaking of Marty, when …
Review: Ten reasons not to see The War of the Buttons
10.) You have zero interest in seeing what it would have been like had Walt Disney produced a live-action Nazi drama in the 1960’s. (The Incredible Journey? The Absent Minded Oberführer? Emil and the Schutzstaffel?) 9.) Who wants to see …
Overheard at AMC Mission Valley
The crowd was particularly restless during last night's screening of Alex Cross, the first actor-for-hire job Tyler Perry has accepted. It remains unclear what exactly the woman seated to my left had in her purse. All I know is it …
There but for the grace of John Wayne's The War Wagon go I
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/16/33689/ I've been on a John Wayne jag of late, trying my best to catch up on what remains of the few post-Stagecoach pictures that heretofore have escaped my critical gaze. For some reason I had it in my head …
San Diego Asian Film Foundation becomes Pacific Arts Movement
You can call it Pac-Arts, or you can call it SDAFF, but "as a kind request" please do not refer to the newly dubbed Pacific Arts Movement as PAM. "I never grew up thinking I was going to run a …