If you’re looking for an unparalleled thrill at the movies, you can forget summer’s special effects bonanzas. Superman stunts and Star Trek warps can’t match the exhilaration of recognizing someone or something from your own life up there on the silver screen. Case-in-point: In 2008, a sizable crowd turned out at the Eureka Theater for […]
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Get Torqued!
Reviews FAST & FURIOUS 6. Since director Justin Lin took over this then-dying series with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), it has become one of the biggest, silliest and most satisfying franchises in movies. This time out, L.A. motorhead-turned-international super-criminal Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew have comfortably situated themselves in […]
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Michael Bay, Reconsidered
Reviews PAIN & GAIN. It’s all too easy to hate on Michael Bay. I know because I used to do it all the time. When Armageddon was storming the box office I reacted like it was a hate crime. For would-be cineastes his name is low-hanging fruit, shorthand for everything that’s “wrong” with contemporary cinema. […]
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Not All About The Shark
Just wind, waves, sun and eye-aching blue sky today out at the beach. Slight breeze, biting sharp. Not far from the Bunker Road parking lot, north of the North Jetty, surfer Bill Lydgate had parked his truck on the waveslope. His surfboard jutted out of the back end of the camper, and he was scrubbing […]
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The Humboldt County of the Future Will Be Overrun By Killer Monkeys
At least that’s what director M. Night Shyamalan envisions. The trailer for his upcoming sci-fi blockbuster After Earth was released today and features quick shots of some of the footage the crew shot amongst our redwoods back in April. Also, monkeys. Enjoy. The film is scheduled to be released in June 2013.
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Found Footage Shows Bigfoot Going on Murderous Rampage
The hoax is over! It brings us no joy to report this terrifying news: The legendary Bigfoot, long portrayed as a shy and benevolent forest dweller with rubbery extremities, has been revealed as a savage and calculating predator. His latest rampage was captured by a television crew right here in Humboldt County, where they’d come to […]
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M. Night in the Classroom
You’ve undoubtedly heard that the famous director M. Night Shyamalan was in Humboldt recently making a movie called After Earth with the famous actor Will Smith and his son Jaden. You may have read, in passing, about the director’s visit with a group of young, local filmmakers. Here’s the inside story on that close encounter, written […]
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Charlie’s Early Review of Win Win
Journal film critic Charlie Myers caught the new Paul Giamatti film Win Win while visiting Portland recently. The film opens at the Minor Theatre today. Here’s Charlie’s review: Regular moviegoers know not to trust trailers. In addition to regularly including plot spoilers and often, especially for comedies, revealing the film’s best lines, the trailer can […]
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Charlie’s Early Review of Cedar Rapids
Journal film critic Charlie Myers has been on vacation in Portland, Ore., the city that steals Humboldt County’s youth. One of the perks of the place is that movies there often get released on their actual release date. So while Cedar Rapids starts today in local theaters, it’s been up there for weeks. Through the […]
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NC Journal Turns 20!!! Film at 11…
A litle home video glimpse of the Journal’s party on the Eureka Boardwalk Saturday night…
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Movie Theater King Speaketh
If you’re gonna bitch about the state of our local theaters — the pre-movie commercials, the dearth of foreign and indie fare, the expensive concessions… take your pick — at least be polite. Otherwise your complaints may end up soaking in high-fructose sludge at the bottom of a theater trash can. “We don’t mind constructive […]
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Iced Tea Party
The Humboldt Tea Party Patriots, perhaps inspired by the wide-ranging scope of ideas recently exhibited by member/Fortuna Councilman Dean Glaser , are expanding their horizons: taking on the nefarious myth of global warming. This Sunday evening at the Veterans Hall in Fortuna, the HTPP will screen Not Evil Just Wrong , a documentary by Irish […]