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San Diego business thrives selling 'leg lamps'
FOX 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO - A longtime San Diego resident has made a career of selling a garish but popular piece of holiday movie memorabilia. Brian Jones, a former Navy officer, sells replica leg lamps made famous in the movie "A Christmas Story." "I just thought...Tags: Holidays, Entertainment, Movies, Movies
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A Dangerous Method
Fox 5 San Diego StaffOne thing I could count on with a David Cronenberg movie is that it wouldn’t be boring. That has changed, with the release of this snooze fest. It’s this new genre of historical fiction (Titanic, Inglourious Basterds, Midnight in Paris, etc)....Tags: Music, Entertainment, Concerts, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender
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San Diego Film Critics Society Nominations for 2011
Fox 5 San Diego StaffLast year when I wasn’t a party of the San Diego Film Critics Society, I cringed when I saw how many awards they gave to 44 Inch Chest, a movie with a great cast, but lame screenplay. This year as part of the group, I enjoyed the fun as we sent...Tags: Martin Scorsese, Doubt (movie), Kenneth Branagh, Robert Richardson, Miranda July
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Top 5 Christmas Comedies
Fox 5 San Diego StaffWhen producers asked me to compile a list of the best holiday films, I didn’t think that would be very fun. Everybody has seen Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life a million times. I remember when I worked morning radio, we did a...Tags: Paul Shaffer, Holidays, Bill Murray, Hugh Grant, Comedy (genre)
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The Woman in Black
Fox 5 San Diego staffHammer films launched in 1934 and in the ‘50s, after success with Dracula and Frankenstein films, they went that direction in the ‘60s and ‘70s with lots of gothic horror films. They first came to my attention when they released the...Tags: Entertainment, There Will Be Blood (movie), Daniel Radcliffe, Movies, Movies
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Oscar Nominations for 2012
Fox 5 San Diego staffAll my friends think I wake up early for the Oscar nominations. It’s baffling how little they know me. I love nothing more in life than sleeping in. And why wake up early to pull an Elvis and shoot the TV screen at the idiotic nominations that...Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Artists, Celebrities, Demian Bichir
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Upcoming Movies in 2012
Fox 5 San Diego staffWhen I was asked to come up with movies I was looking forward to in 2012, I was first at a loss. As a critic, I find it a lot of fun to do lists of the best/worst of the previous years; but we try not to watch too many trailers. They give away key plot...Tags: Paul Dano, Nicolas Cage, Lawrence Kasdan, Sean Penn, Daniel Craig
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
Fox 5 San Diego StaffThe first Harold & Kumar movie had its moments, but I didn’t think it was great comedy. A friend told me that I was one of the few critics that didn’t care for that, or Dazed & Confused (love the Led Zeppelin song, just not the movie). He...Tags: Holidays, Danny Trejo, Santa Claus (fictional character), Patton Oswalt, Entertainment
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A look back at the very first Comic-Con
Fox 5 San DiegoSAN DIEGO -- When reporter Andrew Makarushka covered a small gathering of comic and science fiction enthusiasts in 1970 for the San Diego Union, he never imagined Comic-Con would turn into the mega-convention that it has now become. “This idea...Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Science, Ray Bradbury, Chicago Hotels, Science and Technology
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Harry Potter fanatics line up for premiere in Poway
POWAY, Calif. -- Before the final "Harry Potter Movie" hit the movie theaters it smashed the record for advance ticket sales, movie ticket services said Thursday.
More than 6,000 of the Friday midnight shows across the country had sold out, according...Tags: Entertainment, Tickets, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (movie), Movies
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San Diego braces for Comic-Con
FOX 5 San Diego StaffComics and pop culture aficionados will soon descend on San Diego in droves for the Comic-Con International, an annual convention that's long been an economic boon for the city but may move elsewhere in a few years. About 125,000 people annually attend...Tags: Will Ferrell, Sigourney Weaver, Thriller (genre), Celebrities, Liv Tyler
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'The Catcher in the Rye' author dies
J.D. Salinger, one of contemporary literature's most famous recluses, who created a lasting symbol of adolescent discontent in his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," died Wednesday. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, N....Tags: The New York Times, Don DeLillo, Activism, Book, Nazi Party
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