Dennis Harvey, Author at 48 hills

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Screen Grabs: Keeping it together—and falling apart

September 21, 2020

Spotlight on mental health with Blackbird, Last Call, the Swerve, Rialto, and Oliver Sacks. Plus: The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Space Dogs

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Screen Grabs: Bring on the zombies!

September 18, 2020

A bloom of horror in a pandemic, with #Alive, Spiral, Ravers, The Devil All the Time, more. Plus: Fort Mason drive-in opens

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Screen Grabs: Open your queer eye for Frameline

September 13, 2020

Global tales, intimate history, naughty fun: The LGBTQ+ film fest returns (online) to fierce up your fall.

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Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle

September 10, 2020

This week's must-stream films bring visions of faraway lands and all-too-close looks at our own.

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Screen Grabs: Heavy themes for heavy times

September 8, 2020

New movies: Social media manipulation, voter suppression, deportation, white nationalism... Oh, and Suzi Quatro!

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Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)

September 3, 2020

This week sees the US release at last of what must be the most re-scheduled movie in history, Tenet. Christopher Nolan’s latest Rubik’s Cube-y...

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Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

August 31, 2020

With no end in sight yet for a public health crisis that (thanks to the inimitable bungling of Dear Leader) only other countries are...

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Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

August 28, 2020

One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...

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Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

August 25, 2020

From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some...

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Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

August 21, 2020

For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...

Dennis Harvey

Screen Grabs: Keeping it together—and falling apart

Screen Grabs: Bring on the zombies!

Screen Grabs: Open your queer eye for Frameline

Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle

Screen Grabs: Heavy themes for heavy times

Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)

Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

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