Blood And Chocolate The Movie

See a Ghost

In recent years, Comic- Con has become much more about celebrities, Hollywood movies and TV shows than about comic books, mostly because, these days, most of the big movies are based on comics. I’ll be down at Reading Gaslamp Cinemas on Saturday night, July 23, with actor Thora Birch, presenting Ghost World, one of the greatest comic book films of all time, though there’s nary a superhero to be found.

Yes, Ghost World, that strange, awkward, terrific movie about recent high-school grads Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who play a nasty prank on a middle-aged middle manager (Steve Buscemi), which leads to a friendship between him and Enid that’s sweet, codependent and disturbing.

The film came out 10 years ago, and, at the time, the San Diego Film Critics Society—the organization presenting the film, of which I am the current commander-in-chief—gave it several awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Terry Zwigoff and Best Actress honors for Birch.

This really is a wonderful movie, and we’re proud to be putting it on the big screen in 35mm. Showtime is 9 p.m., and by the time you read this, tickets should be available online. Oh, and did I mention that we’re keeping it affordable? Yep, it’s only $5 to get in, and Comic-Con badges are not required.

There’ll be plenty of caped-crusading, spandex-wearing, steroid-addled crime-fighters at Comic-Con, doing their best to save the world and empty the wallets of teenagers in Korea. That’s all well and good, but I hope you’ll join me, the rest of the San Diego critics and Birch for a super movie that’s not about superheroes.

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Set mostly in Bucharest, Romania, the film introduces us to the modern descendants of an age-old sect of werewolves. These lycanthropes exist in the shadows of the city, only engaging in ritualistic hunts together as a pack and never, or rarely, preying on the human beings with whom they must coexist — at least, never on human beings whose death or disappearance might lead the authorities to the wolf men.

Still, there’s plenty of room for the werewolves to conduct themselves in the utmost of Eurotrash manners while in their human form, hitting dark and mysterious nightclubs, for example, that certainly might be perceived as dangerous and “underground” by, say, a senior citizen from the Midwest. To younger eyes, however, the werewolves of Blood and Chocolate seem as dangerous as their choice in clothing. That is to say, atrocious and off the rack. Much like the film, in fact!

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