Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse
Normally I wouldn’t bother explaining why a certain movie is not being covered in this column, but this weekend there’s a particular glut of ‘em, all of whose absence from greater...
Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château
A visit to London planted the seeds for the romantic sci-fi drama Around the Sun, which opens a run in the Roxie Virtual Cinema on Fri/31. The trip brought...
Screen Grabs: Art imitates life
Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases at present, and that’s just...
Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise
While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist cesspool beyond redemption, in fact...
City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest
When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual occurrence. The Mission District theater...
Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil
The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American life like police violence, income...
Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’
This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ... but oh well. Though otherwise...
New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn
Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex into a comedy routine-meets-consumer transaction....
Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’
Four months into the COVID crisis (with no end in sight yet), many film festivals and organizations have had time to come up with alternatives to completely canceling their...
Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services
The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected since premiering at a festival...
