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Gashole the Documentary showing this weekend at San Diego Ecocenter

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

After more than 30 years of foreign oil dependence why has fuel economy declined, and why do oil prices continue to rise? GasHole is a new documentary film that explores the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels.
The San Diego Environmental Foundation (SDEF) and Pearson Fuels are showing Gashole throughout the weekend [...]

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75 Students Arrested in DEA Drug Bust at San Diego State

May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

A total of 96 people, 75 San Diego State students and 21 non students, were arrested for their involvment in the selling or buying cocaine, marijuana, or ecstasy were arrested. If you watched the final season of The Wire on HBO you might find some parallels in the story line with today’s news of [...]

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San Diego Latino Film Festival: Cocalero

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

If you haven’t had the chance to attend the San Diego Latino Film Festival Go! Go! Go! You will get a chance to meet, take a picture of, or get an autograph from some of the actors/actresses that are in San Diego to promote their movie. I was there last night and took [...]

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Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier Prequel to The Darjeeling Limited

October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Wes Anderson, known for his films Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums released his 13 minute short film Hotel Chevalier as a free download on iTunes. The film takes place in room 403 of Hotel Chevalier and stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman. Jack (Jason Schwartzman) has been living in his Paris room for over a [...]

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Screen on the Green!

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Summer is here and a perfect way to spend an evening with your family and friends is watching a film under the stars! The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park is featuring films on Thursday evenings from the end of July through August. All films can be enjoyed by adults and children [...]

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Warner Bros. casting for The Dark Knight TODAY in San Diego?

July 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Production photo from the set of The Dark Knight (2008).
Rumor has it that Warner Bros. is implementing a very heavy viral marketing campaign to promote and build anticipation for The Dark Knight; the sequel to Batman Begins which is slated for release in July 2008.
I saw the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight tonight while [...]

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At the movies: The Simpsons Movie

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Maggie fights off Mr. Teeny in The Simpsons Movie.
The Summer blockbusters are here and this is the best one of them all! Your all-time favorite dysfunctional family and the charming people of Springfield finally make it to the big screen and deliver the most wonderfully inappropriate, incredibly random, morally heart-warming and painfully hilarious Simpsons episode [...]

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READY, SET, FILM!

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The 48 Hour Film Project comes to San Diego the weekend of July 13-15th. The purpose of the 48 Hour Project is to have local filmmakers come together to create a film in 48 hours. At the kickoff event, each team will draw the genre for its film out of a hat. Several film [...]

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At the movies: 300

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Gerard Butler as Leonidas, King of Spartans
King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans face ‘the thousand armies of the Persian Empire’ on the big screen in Frank Miller’s film adaptation of his graphic novel, 300. Starring Gerard Butler, Dominic West and David Wenham.
300 is a bloody, stylized and semi-accurate historical re-telling of the Battle of Thermopylae [...]

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Celebrity Q&A with Eduardo Verástegui at San Diego Latino Film Festival 2007

March 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Eduardo Verástegui at the San Diego Latino Film Festival March 17, 2007 / Photo by Mario Lozano for SanDiegoish
The San Diego Latino Film Festival media conference on Saturday was equally packed with fans and media for Eduardo Verástegui. The Mexican actor-producer was here to present bella, winner of the prestigious Audience Award at the 2006 [...]

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