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Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

Liberation and constraint, from Belgian playgrounds and the back alleys of Chad to Ted Kaczynski's paranoid manifesto.

Preston proposes a tax on vacant apartments

With 40,000 empty units in the city, taxing speculators and greedy landlords might bring 5,000 more homes onto the market—and pay for affordable housing.

What we saw at Sundance ’22, part 1: demented animation, Filipina country stars, more

Perfect pairings of our favorite features and shorts from this year's dazzling film fest (keep them in mind for later viewing)

Ficks’ Picks Epic List: Our favorite films of 2021 (or so)

A mega-countdown of recommended movies, videos, and even double features recently released

Screen Grabs: ‘Scream’ all you want, they’ll make more

A horror 'requel' proves worthy of its many predecessors. Plus: Velvet Queen's elusive Himalayan cat, Whaler Boy's epic cam-girl journey, more

The only community garden in Daly City could become market-rate housing

School district wants to develop a site that is a rare oasis of green in an 'impervious concrete jungle.'

Screen Grabs: Looking back at Chaplin—and ahead to International Oscar noms

New biopic digs in. Plus: Slovenia's sweet 'Sanremo,' Chile's chilling 'White on White,' Japan's 'Drive My Car'—and 'Afrofuturistik' hits big screens

Screen Grabs: Opera Plaza returns with Kosovo drama, Hawaiian ghosts, Dirty Harry

Plus: 'Dean Martin: King of Cool,' a supernatural Welsh thriller in actual Welsh, Kurt Vonnegut, more new movies

Denzel and Frances deliver ‘Macbeth’ — and other standouts from the New York Film Fest

In the third Ficks' Picks dispatch from the fest, Joel Coen delivers his first brother-less triumph with 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' and a Murakami adaption — surprisingly — sings

Body horror and existential spelunking at the New York Film Festival

In the second Ficks' Picks dispatch, demons and daddy issues roil 'Titane' while 'Il Buco [The Hole]' delivers without dialogue.