http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-40-1-film.html The summer-movie season kicked off with a bang when The Avengers smashed all kinds of box-office records earlier this month. But there’s more to the season than superhero vampires and exploding robots—though there’s plenty of them, too.]]> A list of openings, one-time openings and currently-showing films
]]> I much preferred the summer’s first big hit, The Avengers, but you can say this for Battleship: It’s crowd-rousing, and it will probably do well in a military town like San Diego.]]> We’re used to seeing Jack Black in crazy roles, but Bernie, his new movie, is one of the first in which he’s had a leading role that isn’t completely out of control.]]> When I told a colleague that I was going to catch a screening of John Madden’s new film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, he said it looked like a movie for old people. And he wasn’t entirely wrong. ]]> Destin Daniel Cretton’s new movie and first feature, I Am Not a Hipster, is set in San Diego’s indie-rock scene.]]> The movie is about a young L.A. couple, Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), who fancy themselves documentary filmmakers. And they have quite a story to tell.]]> It’s official: Summer is here. Well, at least the summer movie season is here]]> The summer movie season is upon us, which means it’s just about time to see all kinds of asses getting kicked by all kinds of heroes. ]]> Yes, Pirates! is a heartwarming tale of larceny and plundering, with the occasional all-in-good-fun stabbing tossed in for kicks. But don’t let that stop you from taking your kids.]]> I’m under the impression that most reasonable people believe that humans have had a negative impact on the global climate. ]]> The San Diego Asian Film Festival doesn’t return until November, but the folks at the San Diego Asian Film Foundation aren’t taking it easy. ]]> I should probably start by saying that I’m not a fan of horror movies. I’ve never enjoyed getting scared for the sake of being scared. It’s not like I’ve written off the genre, but I generally take a pass when someone wants me to see a movie about a bunch of young people who head off to a cabin in the woods and run into something horrific that wants to dismember them in particularly gruesome ways.]]> Hirsch’s film is essentially a piece of anti-bullying advocacy, humanizing an unseemly part of life by following several families whose children have committed suicide or who are in the midst of being bullied. ]]> The bar’s been set high for Goon, the hockey comedy opening Friday, April 6, at Hillcrest Cinemas, but the good news is that it adheres to the one-liner about going to see a fight and a hockey game breaks out.]]> Each month, Friday Talking Pictures features the work of a single director. In the past, we’ve seen collections of films from Spike Lee, Sam Peckinpah and Akira Kurosawa, and in April, they’ll screen four different films by Gus Van Sant.]]> The Raid: Redemption is essentially one very long fight scene, as Rama and his compatriots do their best to get out alive.]]> It’s preachy, self-important, depressing and shoddy, almost never giving the high-school students the respect that the movie insists they deserve. ]]> It’s worth noting that many, many fish were harmed in the making of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb’s new documentary about Jiro Ono, who’s widely considered to be one of the foremost sushi chefs in the world.]]> You have to feel for FilmOut, San Diego’s LBGT film festival, which was all set to host a screening of The Bodyguard]]>