San Diego Sports 760<\/a>.<\/p>\nAt Pechanga Arena, you can see the SAN DIEGO SEALS play lacrosse.<\/p>\n
Another event at BALBOA PARK. Over the weekend, you can attend the CHINESE NEW YEAR FAIR at the House of China. Music, Dancing, and culinary delights abound. Hopefully the weather doesn\u2019t put a damper on things.<\/p>\n
Comedy legend JERRY SENFELD will be at Pechanga Resort in TEMECULA.<\/p>\n
The World Ballet Company will perform SWAN LAKE at the Civic Theatre DOWNTOWN.<\/p>\n
If classical music is more your thing, you can hear some Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Britten performed by the SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY at Jacobs Music Center DOWNTOWN. That show is Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
SUNDAY \u2013<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a sport that\u2019s the complete opposite of the Winter Olympics \u2013 women\u2019s volleyball. You can catch the SAN DIEGO MOJO vs Omaha at Viejas Arena.<\/p>\n
If you want an Eagles tribute band, well\u2026one flies into the BALBOA THEATRE.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ON STREAMING \u2013<\/p>\n
The best selling book that was turned into a 7-part series, THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME (Jennifer Garner) returns with season 2 on APPLE TV.<\/p>\n
THE NIGHT AGENT is back dropping all 10 episodes of season 3 on Netflix.<\/p>\n
AT THE MOVIES \u2013<\/p>\n
Catherine O\u2019Hara tribute! The ANGELIKA FILM CENTER did a wonderful thing when Robert Redford died, showing some of his classic movies. It\u2019s great to see they\u2019re doing this with Catherine O\u2019Hara. Over the weekend at the theater you can see her in \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d and \u201cBest in Show.\u201d There will also be some shows during the week, so check the listings for that (I\u2019m hoping the following weekend we\u2019ll get some Robert Duvall films).<\/p>\n
CRIME 101<\/p>\n
The title is a bit deceptive. It\u2019s a fun play on a phrase, as all the crimes take place near the 101 freeway for an easy escape. This film wasn\u2019t screened for the critics, so off to my favorite theater \u2013 Angelika Film Center \u2013 to recline in the seats and enjoy the ride. It\u2019s an amazing cast: Chris Hemsworth as the smart thief, Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez in \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d) as the love interest, the always terrific Barry Keoghan as the rival thief, Nick Nolte is in a few scenes as the man behind the curtain (who still mumbles when he barks orders at his thieves). Mark Ruffalo was good as the police investigator that nobody believes. Jennifer Jason Leigh was under-used as his wife who wants to leave him. And last but not least, Halle Berry plays an insurance agent who\u2019s been passed over for partner because of her age (I\u2019m convinced she\u2019ll still be beautiful when she\u2019s 80). The movie is getting great reviews, but my wife and I \u2013 and the 4 friends I was talking to that saw it \u2013 were all just a bit disappointed. There were a lot of cliches, and lots of scenes done better in other films. My main problem is that characters did things I just didn\u2019t buy. I\u2019ll give you two examples, both involving Hemsworth. He has trouble talking to women, and blows a date because he\u2019s so bad at it. And, he\u2019s a nice criminal, so he gives the people he robs their phones back before he leaves the scene.\u00a0It didn\u2019t feel as long as the two hours and 20 minute run time, which is a positive. I just think it needed a sharper script (written by author Don Winslow). 2 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n
PILLION<\/p>\n
This movie is unrated, but would\u2019ve been given an X or NC-17. It\u2019s rather graphic. It involves a BDSM relationship between two men (that stands for: Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism, and Masochism.\u00a0The movie has two big problems that are hard to get over. One is the relationship. There\u2019s an older guy \u201cseducing\u201d a young man, who hasn\u2019t been in many (if any) relationships. It\u2019s one of the reasons I had a hard time loving \u201cCall Me By Your Name\u201d the way everyone else did \u2013 the age difference was creepy, no matter what sex is involved. So when Alexander Skarsgard is a quiet biker who runs with a rough looking biker gang (that are all gay), we\u2019re curious as to how they\u2019ll meet. He basically rapes this young man (at least it felt like that watching it), and the young man continues to put up with abuse from him. I talked to a few people that watched it and we all felt the same \u2013 it was disturbing. We don\u2019t know why the young man stays in the relationship. And it might make more sense if they just role-played on weekends or whatever, but this is 24\/7. The young man is basically his slave. The only character we liked is the mom (who is dying of cancer), who doesn\u2019t like the abuse her son is taking. There\u2019s a great dinner scene with them all where a confrontation ensues. It\u2019s also cute when the mom tries to set him up with another man she met somewhere. As my wife and a female critic we sat next to said \u2013 we\u2019d all hate this movie if this relationship were an older man doing this to a younger, naive woman. Why are we supposed to celebrate this? For a romantic movie involving a gay couple, you should rent the Tom Ford movie \u201cA Single Man\u201d (Colin Firth, Julianne Moore), or the more humorous \u201cThe Kids Are Alright\u201d (Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Annette Bening). That was my favorite film of 2010. For some baffling reason, \u2018Pillion\u201d is getting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing. I can only give it 1 \u00bd stars out of 5.<\/p>\n
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING<\/p>\n
I was looking forward to this. The trailer looked intriguing. A man (Glen Powell) could inherit billions. But there are 7 relatives above him that would receive the family fortune before him. If they\u2019re dead, he gets it all. So, he decides to take them out. That means right off the bat, we\u2019re going to have trouble rooting for him. Even if the family patriarch (Ed Harris) screwed over him and his mom. The movie tries to be a dark comedy and a serious film, and basically \u2013 it was bad at everything it attempted. It was just awful. One scene that did make me laugh is Margaret Qualley\u2019s character going on and on about nepotism, when she\u2019s one of the nepo babies in Hollywood that\u2026astrounds me she has a career. I usually dislike everything she does on screen, in most of her movies. And let\u2019s not leave Powell out of my complaining. I\u2019m sick of seeing his face, and when he plays these types of characters, they don\u2019t work. It did have a few fun scenes. And I was surprised they covered a flaw I thought would be there before the movie started \u2013 and that was the FBI noticing this pattern after just a few killings (but there are about 20 other flaws with things that happened). 1 \u00bd stars out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY \u2013 The SAN DIEGO CLIPPERS play Austin, at Frontwave Arena in OCEANSIDE. A circus is in town.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26,8,37659,37658,37660,37650,37654,37651,37661,74,76,75,37656,37657,37655,37653,37652,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-184900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-california-news","10":"tag-darren-jack","11":"tag-darren-smith","12":"tag-election-news-updates","13":"tag-george-chamberlin","14":"tag-george-noory","15":"tag-ladona-harvey","16":"tag-lou-penrose","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-headlines","19":"tag-san-diego-news","20":"tag-san-diego-traffic-reports","21":"tag-san-diego-weather-reports","22":"tag-san-diegos-breaking-news-station","23":"tag-sean-hannity","24":"tag-ted-garcia","25":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}