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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

At this point even six months ago may feel like an entirely different, long-lost epoch—as, meanwhile, November 3 can’t possibly come soon enough. But...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens

Caitlin Donohue - August 3, 2020

Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances....

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Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey - July 31, 2020

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...

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Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey - July 28, 2020

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...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2020

While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...

Movies

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady - July 22, 2020

When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey - July 21, 2020

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...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Dennis Harvey - July 17, 2020

This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

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...

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