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Catalina Island’s Casino
Hopping off the ferry after an hour’s ride from Long Beach, I finally set foot on Catalina Island. Weather permitting, if you squint just right you can barely see the California coast with your naked eye from here. There’s a large crowd near the port, perhaps explained by the large cruise ship anchored near the…
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Backrooms at the AMC Metreon
The original version of the Metreon in San Francisco — before the second floor was renovated into a Target store — was a quirky place. Stores on the first two floors tended to focus on food and entertainment, and were often unusually shaped due to the aggressively ’90s architecture of the place. Years after…
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Flower Bathroom
For all the uniquely decorated bathrooms in San Francisco, this mural of oversized flowers is in an unexpected place: Roxie Theater’s small-screen “Little Roxie” theater. This mural has a way of jumping out at you as you use the restroom on your way out of the theater; not only have you gone from a dark…
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Recent movie review round-up (2025)
This past year was an awkward time for movies. Perhaps it was most acutely captured by a Tron sequel/reboot nobody wanted, staring an actor most people can’t stand. At the risk of sounding overly negative, it was a “meh” year for movies in general. Still, there were a few gems — I only wish there…
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How Many Bags? A guide to On Cinema’s movie ratings
On Cinema’s live Oscar Special is this Sunday, and it promises to be The Last Oscar Special. So in honor of the series finale of On Cinema (or at least, until they inevitably announce a reunion immediately afterwards), I’ve launched a new website with all the movies rated on the show over the past…
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Recent movie review round-up (2024)
Due to time constraints last year I never got to post a “part one” of my movie roundup for 2024. So you’re getting it all in one lump sum. Maybe I’ll do the same thing this year, maybe not — we’ll see how it goes. Regardless I’m posting this a bit late, which for this…
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When RoboCop parodied San Francisco’s most infamous assassination
In 1978 former San Francisco supervisor Dan White assassinated mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. There’s a movie starring Sean Penn about it. What some may not know is the hyper violent comedy movie RoboCop from 1987 contains a sequence parodying this event. The movie technically takes place in Detroit, renamed Delta City (“The…
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Recent movie review round-up (second half of 2023)
Right as it seemed the movies were back in a big way, the powers that be in Hollywood screwed up with yet even more poor business decisions and a lengthy strike with two major unions. So even though I’m still going to call this one “second half of 2023” for consistency, most of these movies…
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Recent movie review round-up (first half of 2023)
Sometimes it’s difficult to say if there’s a theme to the movies that came out recently versus if there’s a theme to the movies you chose to watch. The truth is probably somewhere in between. Looking back at the past six months of movies I’ve watched, it’s been a blend of nostalgia, oddball comedy, and…
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Six most outrageous moments in the 2023 On Cinema Oscar Special
Now in its tenth year, On Cinema at the Cinema finished its previous season 13 with Tim Heidecker completely defeated. But now he’s back for the 10th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special, along with co-host(!) Gregg Turkington! Sometimes people ask me to describe On Cinema, and the best I can do is this: what if…
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