Every once in a while, a movie is released at a particularly zeitgeisty moment. To wit, consider the release serendipity of movies such as Fahrenheit 9/11 at the height of the second war in Iraq, or Milk during the Prop. 8 campaign. Now, enter Margin Call, a fictionalized dramatization of something like the collapse of…
dvd of the week I don’t think there’s much argument that Captain America: The First Avenger ended up being the best surprise of the summer movie season, at least as far as action films go. As I wrote in the middle of July, “Captain America is the fourth massively expensive comic book superhero movie to…
dvr this Flix, 8 p.m., Oct. 31 In arguably Tim Burton’s best movie, Johnny Depp plays the worst director of all time, Ed Wood, whose insanely bad, low-budget schlock often starred Bela Lugosi and various other has-beens. Martin Landau won an Oscar playing Lugosi, who can’t seem to believe he’s still playing Dracula after all…
Before Lindsay Lohan, there was the original Hollywood bad girl, Traci Lords. One of the biggest adult film stars of the eighties, Lords sparked a firestorm of controversy when it was revealed that she was under 18, making all of her popular films, in essence, child pornography. The Traci Lords of today is a star…
thursday, oct. 27 Man of La Mancha One of the great theater successes of our time, the show features a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote . We have a poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. “It’s All the Same,” “Dulcinea,” “I’m Only Thinking of Him,” “The…
If you weren’t able to check out all the art labs that participated in the Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, back in September, then you have another chance to experience the performance from that event at Agitprop in North Park. The artists involved in Art(ist) in Context II: or How I Learned to Scrub…
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher dvd of the week As I wrote in the spring, I laughed out loud several times while watching Bad Teacher. The younger men in the audience when I saw the movie were particularly enamored with the movie, especially when the issue of breasts was first and foremost. While Bad Teacher…
dvr this I’d rather prep for Halloween with a witchy comedy than silly horror film. So, thanks to TCM, we can see the 1959 movie, Bell, Book and Candle, that was the inspiration for Bewitched. The film is a delightful romantic comedy featuring Jimmy Stewart (in the role that would be Darren in the TV…
You may not have heard of Elizabeth Olsen yet, but you will soon be able to see her in several new movies. The beautiful, young actress will be sharing the screen with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights; and in Very Good Girls she will appear with Dakota Fanning; while, in Liberal…
The 12th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival, which takes place Oct. 20-28, features a wealth of cinematic glimpses into the world around us, courtesy of Pan-Asian filmmakers with entries from all corners of the globe – including San Diego. UltraStar Cinemas in Mission Valley at Hazard Center will play predominant host to the nine-day…
