Someone spank crybabies Lucas & Spielberg and send them to bed without their suppers
WAAAAAAAA! There's "eventually going to be an implosion in the film industry." WAAAAAAAA! Lincoln was 'this close' to going to HBO. WAAAAAAAA! We barely got (Red Tails) into theaters. I'm disgusted with the two of you's! Can we say chutzpah? …
A gallery of 33 vintage posters from Hollywood's Golden Age of cartoons
Feature length theatrical releases were not the only films to get the royal ballyhoo treatment back in the day. Posters heralding the arrival of a new one-reel animated wonder -- frequently as colorful as the shorts they hyped -- were …
DVR alert: 41st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47302/ Hold your tongues and rest your sphincters! Last week, the AFI Life Achievement Award went to Mel Brooks and Marty was on hand to present the trophy and suck face. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/12/47303/ The ceremony will air this Saturday night at …
DVD Rentals: Tarzan Triumphs
Me like Tarzan movies!
Me like Tarzan. Too cheap to drop $40 retail on box set. Find Volume 2 in pawn shop. Cost five bucks. No resist. After M.G.M. shuttered their Tarzan unit, the King of the Jungle hopped a vine and swung across …
Review: Andrew Boyd's Adams Ave. '13 Unplugged on Mopeds
Five-star short debuts at America's Finest Film Festival
Quit your day job, Reader Andy; Hollywood is calling. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/11/47269/ Not since Werewolves on Wheels or Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese's What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? has a first film displayed a profound and …
DVD Rentals: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Why rent when for the same money you can buy a copy at Big!Lots?
John Huston and cinematographer Aldo Tonti originally envisioned Carson McCuller's story of military base masochism as a golden-hued fairy tale of sexual repression, ""Rated Mature: FOR ADULTS ONLY!" Huston's design concept originally called for only one natural color per scene, …
Movies on the half-shell
Oysterfest Music and Food Festival this weekend!
In honor of this year's daylong Oysterfest Music and Food Festival, to be held Saturday at the Marina Embarcadero North, 849 W Harbor Dr., here's a shucking good tribute to bivalve mollusks on film. Click for more information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1eNKGbbXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM …
Latin America will soon have access to Sundance Channel
American cable subscribers suffer, why shouldn't our friends South of the border?
The Sundance Channel hit the airwaves in 2006 with a schedule that represented the finest in independent films, world cinema, and documentaries. This September, the Sundance Channel makes its debut in seven Latin American countries. In a recent interview, station …
'Actress' fingered for sending ricin-tinged letters to Obama and Bloomberg
Great career move for Shannon Guess!
Forget about the ricin. The bigger crime is referring to Shannon Richardson, aka Shannon Rogers and Shannon Guess, as an actress. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/08/47068/ The day worker who gained extra roles on shows like Madea's Big Happy Family, The Walking Dead, The …
4th row center: Zombie Strippers
You are not likely to find an all-black audience in lily white Bland Diego. The closest we get is Horton Plaza, a downtown mall known for playing, what's the p. c. buzzword...oh, yes "urban action" films. In the fourteen years …
Brad Pitt to make 'surprise' appearance at San Diego County Fair?
Doesn't announcing a surprise appearance undercut the element of surprise? Be this as it may, the producers of World War Z want you to know there is a chance that Brad Pitt will make a cameo at the San Diego …
Review: Violet & Daisy
Hollywood never gives me what I really want. When the invite to the Violet and Daisy screening arrived, I thought for sure it was going to be a CG biopic of the Hilton sisters, America’s once loved and sadly forgotten …
Review: Wish You Were Here
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/06/46993/ A must to avoid for those planning a trip to Southeast Asia, Wish You Were Here is bound to impact weekend getaways to Phnom Penh in much the same way Midnight Express put the kibosh on Turkish tourism. At …
Dig a pool: Esther Williams
Esther Williams was an odd footnote to movie history. The record-setting competitive swimmer found a place in Hollywood where, in the '40's and '50's, she left her watermark on a series of "aquamusicals". If you find today's movies lacking in …
Let the Wright one in
Anders Wright moves to U-T, Glenn Heath assumes position with "City Beat"
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/06/46984/ Congratulations go out to my friends and colleagues, Glenn Heath and Anders, right? Both will soon be covering the same beat for different venues. After seven years with City Beat, Anders Wright has accepted the position of full-time film …
4th row center: Yesterday
Seniors or gang-bangers: Who'd you rather share a row with?
An 11:30 screening of an art house picture on a Tuesday morning in Clairemont; I thought it would be just me and the screen. What’s worse: the six boisterous future jailbirds who smuggled Arrowhead water bottles filled with beer into …
Trailer Park: Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead is either the name of a Japanese horror film or the perfect way to sum up my unpaid internship at KPBS. What's with you hipsters? Why must I hear about this paragon of poop …
4th row center: Monkeybone
The night the Whoopee Cushions won
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/04/46896/ Q: "What did the audience member say when the Whoopie Cushion gag got old?" A: "This movie sucks. Let's get outta' here." It is easily the most memorable screening I ever walked out on. What lunatic PR drone at …
Digital Gym houses a Temple
The release of a new Julien Temple film is generally cause for a cinematic High Holiday. London: The Modern Babylon, the latest work by the British film, documentary and music video director opens today and runs through June 9 at …
Lon Chaney, Jr., back from the dead and ready to litigate
Universal studios is being sued by the estate of second generation movie monster, Lon Chaney, Jr., to the tune of over $1 million for alleged improper use of the actor’s likeness for merchandising. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jun/04/46867/ Hollywood is always looking for ways …