Dennis Harvey, Author at 48 hills

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So many spooky Halloween movies!

October 18, 2019

As Halloween approaches, some people ready their “sexy” costumes and gear up to chest-heave cocktails onto the lap of their fellow ex-frat bros and/or...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A bounty of international film fests

October 15, 2019

Mill Valley may be over, but the fall cavalcade of local film festivals continues. This week alone brings at least four (that we know...

Arts + Culture

With ‘Gialloween II,’ Italian horror classics splatter the Roxie

October 15, 2019

The week before Halloween, the Roxie is reviving a series inaugurated two years ago with the seasonally-appropriate Gialloween II—a showcase for four vintage Italian...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

October 8, 2019

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

Movies

Cascade of flicks, star-power coming to Mill Valley Film Fest

September 29, 2019

Feel like getting the rest of the year’s movie-watching over with in 10 days? Well, you’re in luck: The Mill Valley Film Festival, which...

Onstage

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

September 27, 2019

With Cloud Nine in 1979 and Top Girls (through October 13 at ACT) three years later, Caryl Churchill shot to the front ranks of living...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: All the latest from Iran

September 24, 2019

Fall is a busy time for Bay Area screens beyond the multiplex, and this week is no exception. There are no less than three...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: She raised hell!

September 16, 2019

You can experience complete schizophrenia at the movies by attending all three of this weekend’s new big releases: There’s the uber-manly Rambo: Last Blood,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Native American Reelism, Bay Area Thrash Metal …

September 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The ever-lengthening annual period known as “awards season” arguably starts this Friday with the arrival of The Goldfinch, which premiered at the Toronto...

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