This Mother's Day the Movie is on Mom
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/30/23659/ Do you really want to leave your mother at the mercy of the multiplex? Don't you love her? Here is your chance to prove it. Landmark Theatres asks all of you doting sons and daughters to remember your best …
Hollywood on its Way to a Record-Breaking Year
The good news is Hollywood is rapidly climbing out of last year's box office recession and heading towards a record-breaking year. What's the downside? Sequels to The Hunger Games and The Lorax are destined to corrugate the road ahead. With …
Scott Marks Hosts WriteOutLoud Screenings of Two Roger Corman/Edgar Allan Poe Classics
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/25/23463/ WriteOutLoud, in connection with the San Diego Public Library, wraps up their month long celebration, The Big Read - Shades of Poe with screenings of two classic big screen adaptations of the Master's short stories, House of Usher and …
Wrap Tefillin and Tortillas at Jews in Mexican Cinema Showcase
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/24/23439/ ¡Oy, Caramba! I no sooner finish watching the new Kate Hudson tearjerker, A Little Bit of Heaven, in which Gael García Bernal co-stars as Yiddishe kop Dr. Julian Goldstein, than news of ¡Celèbrate! appears in my inbox. It must …
Rosie O'Donnell Criticizes Lindsay Lohan for Playing Liz Taylor in TV Biopic
Reeling from her recent talk-show debacle on the OWN, Rosie O'Donnell decided to decompress a little with the Today show's Matt Lauer and Donny Deutsch. TMZ reports that Rosie was none too happy with the announcement that Lindsay Lohan is …
May Ten: Big Screen Anniversary Party at House of Blues
When I worked with the public radio station in town we were forbidden from handing out prizes on the air. Knowing that The Big Screen is rapidly approaching its one year anniversary, Matt and I wanted to put together a …
DVD Rentals: Adventures of Superman
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/23/23312/ The untimely demise of poor little Dickie Bird was but a harbinger of things to come. The first fleshly souls to introduce me to the concept of death were my paternal grandmother and George “Superman” Reeves. Grandma Marks was …
San Diego's First International Surf Film Festival at Bird's Surf Shed
Head over to Linda Vista next month for the first ever San Diego Surf Film Festival (SDSFF). For a town steeped in surf culture, it's a wonder it took this long to create a film festival honoring those who believe …
How Far the Mighty Have Fallen: Joe Pesci
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/18/23150/ In the past twelve years Joe Pesci has appeared in only two films. There was a brief, but pivotal, cameo in his buddy Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd (2006) and a supporting role as a whoremaster opposite Helen Mirren …
Dig a Hole: Dick Clark
Dick Clark, "America's oldest teenager," is floating high as a cloud on the heavenly bandstand. The game show host, shrewd TV mogul, blooper-wrangler, American Bandstand overlord, multifunctional celebrity, and master at ushering in the new year, died yesterday after suffering …
UCSD's ArtPower! Screens Winter Story as Part of Their 21st Century Chinese Film Series
It's a busy time for Asian Cinema in San Diego. In addition to next week's San Diego Asian Film Foundation's annual Spring Showcase, UCSD's ArtPower! screens director Zhu Chuanming’s Dongtian De Gushi (Winter Story) as part of their 21st Century …
San Diego Asian Film Foundation's Spring Showcase Kicks Off This Week
Last year, the San Diego Asian Film Foundation's inaugural Spring Showcase yielded a bountiful crop of movies many of which, most notably Jackie Chan's Little Big Soldier, never received a theatrical release in our fair, if not artistically controverted, city. …
Review: L!fe Happens
Life happens but cinema doesn't in this fluffy chick flick destined to give the "genre" a worse reputation than it already has. Kim (Krysten Ritter) and Deena (Kate Bosworth) are a pair standard operating party girls sharing an apartment with …
Interview: Kristen Connolly, star of The Cabin in the Woods
Five teenagers alone in a remote location are systematically done away with by unstoppable evil. Normally I'd ask that you stop me if you've heard this one before, but The Cabin in the Woods, a new horror satire that opens …
Review: The Three Stooges
Credit Sean Hayes (Larry), Will Sasso (Curly), and especially Chris Diamantopoulos (Moe) for doing their homework. Their Xerography of the boys’ lowbrow antics perfectly captures the spirit and mayhem, if not the aesthetically-challenged look and feel of the shorts. The …
Bully for Me
Review duty for the much hyped-documentary Bully, opening this Friday at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas and AMC La Jolla, fell on Elliott's watch. Good luck, Dave. Rumor has it producer Harvey Weinstein -- already jockeying for a 2013 Best Documentary Oscar …
If I Cast the The 3 Stooges
The Three Stooges finally screens tomorrow night. Even though the Farrelly Bros. have yet to once make me laugh, for reasons made obvious when first I encountered the boys at the tender age of three, I haven't craved a film …
Meet Michael Knowles: Actor, Writer, Editor, Inventor, and Director of The Trouble with Bliss
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/07/22389/ The Best Narrative Feature winner at the 2011 San Diego Film Festival is currently playing at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15. The Trouble with Bliss offers viewers three films for the price of one. Feel like laughing along with slouches? …
The Big Screen Percolates Tempest in a Coffee Cup
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/06/22329/ All I wanted was a cup of coffee. This story concerning AMC Fashion Valley's unwillingness to allow outside coffee to be consumed during morning press screenings seems to have struck a responsive cord in the critical community. FishbowlLA led …
Adam Sandler Film Sweeps Awards Show
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/05/22263/ In an unprecedented move, Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill took home Worst Picture, Worst Director (Dennis Dugan), Worst Actor (Sandler), Worst Actress (Sandler), Worst Supporting Actor (Al Pacino), Worst Supporting Actress (David Spade), Worst Screenplay (Sandler and Steve Koren), …