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Screen Grabs: Planetary repercussions in ‘The Territory,’ Idris Elba grants cinematic wishes

August 24, 2022

The actor lends certain splendor to 'Three Thousand Years of Longing'—plus, a chance to see 'The Birds' on the big screen!

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Screen Grabs: SF Porn Film Festival kicks off with the Bay’s erotic history

August 20, 2022

Plus: Welcome evolution of Hollywood's Black protagonists via 1972's 'Blacula' and Edris Alba's new action-horror 'Beast.'

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Screen Grabs: European relations hit the skids in ‘Spin Me Round’ and ‘Orphan: First Kill’

August 17, 2022

The former takes 'Eat, Pray' into comic territory, while 'Orphan' presents a psycho Estonian waif.

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Screen Grabs: The saga of Chol Soo Lee—and the arrival of Cinequest

August 15, 2022

Plus: 'Big Trouble in Little China' gets a screening worthy of a cult fave, and this week's new releases.

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Screen Grabs: Tween screams—and other late-summer hits and misses

August 10, 2022

A crucial abortion-at-the-border doc, 'Summering' recalls a gender-switched 'Stand By Me,' plus more new releases.

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Screen Grabs: It’s a miracle—a new cinema opens in SF

August 8, 2022

Plus: Godzillafest goes Gamera, Indian Forrest Gump, '80s macho meatheads, Planet of the Vampires, more movies

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Screen Grabs: Family dysfunction, with all the yikes

August 4, 2022

Patton Oswalt's 'I Love My Dad,' Lena Dunham's 'Sharp Stick,' teen pregnancy fallout in 'Icon,' more cringey relations

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Screen Grabs: Let the banjos duel again—’Deliverance’ is back

July 31, 2022

Plus: Two movies take on Texas in very different ways, and a passel of new horror flicks, from Norway to Uber.

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Screen Grabs: Back in time—1993 and 1982—for tall tales and tragedy at school

July 28, 2022

Plus: Rebecca Hall's corker paranoid turn in 'Resurrection' and Rebeca Huntt's confessional (maybe?) 'Beba'

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Screen Grabs: Sorry, ‘Nope.’

July 25, 2022

Plus: Interplanetary spewing barbarians in 'This is Gwar,' antic Brazilian diversion 'Jesus Kid,' more new movies

Dennis Harvey

Screen Grabs: Planetary repercussions in ‘The Territory,’ Idris Elba grants cinematic wishes

Screen Grabs: SF Porn Film Festival kicks off with the Bay’s erotic history

Screen Grabs: European relations hit the skids in ‘Spin Me Round’ and ‘Orphan: First Kill’

Screen Grabs: The saga of Chol Soo Lee—and the arrival of Cinequest

Screen Grabs: Tween screams—and other late-summer hits and misses

Screen Grabs: It’s a miracle—a new cinema opens in SF

Screen Grabs: Family dysfunction, with all the yikes

Screen Grabs: Let the banjos duel again—’Deliverance’ is back

Screen Grabs: Back in time—1993 and 1982—for tall tales and tragedy at school

Screen Grabs: Sorry, ‘Nope.’

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