dvd of the week Tarentino’s homage to spaghetti westerns and blaxploitation films of the 1970s is his funniest movie by far and as nearly as fun to watch as Kill Bill Vol. 1. It’s also the movie that probably sets some sort of record for the use of the n-word, and it’s disconcerting, to say…
dvr this: HBO, Sunday, April 7, 9 p.m. It’s back! HBO’s stupendous orgy of sex, violence and beards returned for its third season March 31, and for three months, we’ll have Sunday nights full of swords, sorcery, intrigue and dragons. While the show occasionally feels exploitative (tits, again?), it is also so well acted, so…
thursday, april 4 To Gillian on her 37th birthday David’s wife Gillian died two years ago in a boating accident. David not only grieves for her, he walks and talks with her along the beach at night. Gillian’s sister Esther pays him a visit, bringing with her a friend that she hopes will interest David….
An interview with the directors of Rocket Man – The Music of Elton John Gary Holt is artistic director of the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) and has been its conductor since 1987. Joey Landwehr is artistic director of J*Company Youth Theatre at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center and is director and choreographer of…
The intercom buzzed late one recent afternoon and I answered the door. Dillon gave me a hug and accepted a frosty-cold mug filled with an amber microbrew. Bright last-day-of-winter sunlight splashed through the floor-to-ceiling windows. “Thanks for coming over,” I said. “You said you wanted to show me something ‘big, thick, meaty and lovely to…
BY ANA PINES AND KIM RESCATE It’s that time of year again when women from San Diego and all over the world take over Palm Springs for Club Skirts’ Dinah Shore Weekend. Now in its milestone 23rd year, this 5-day event, happening April 3-7, is already on its way to be the biggest its ever…
Spring Breakers I saw Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s perverse exploitation art film, with five bears and a couple hundred teenagers who thought they were seeing a Tarentino-fied Where the Boys Are. That said, I doubt any of those kids have ever heard of Where the Boys Are, the 1960 film starring George Hamilton and Yvette…
dvd of the week This under-seen crime drama is Andrew Dominik’s follow-up to the under-seen, but brilliant The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This one isn’t as powerful, but it’s just as amazing to look at, taking the slow-motion violence style to the pinnacle of the artform. Brad Pitt plays a…
dvr this Starting at 4:30 a.m., TCM is playing one great, not-so-great and fabulous Easter movie after another. It starts with Ben-Hur, the epic gladiator-meets-Jesus movie that star Charlton Heston didn’t realize was secretly a gay love story. At 3 p.m., they’re showing Easter Parade, the wonderful Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller musical; forgive…
thursday, march 28 Born Yesterday Set in the Washington, D.C. of the ’40s, this entertaining tale of a wealthy junk dealer and his “showgirl girlfriend” has a plot line that could be culled from today’s headlines. Harry does business by making deals with insiders, and his girlfriend doesn’t fit in with Washington society. So Billie…
