Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Film

Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

Mourning another rep house gone, and looking forward to old school movies—brilliant, romantic, cheesy, and beastly.

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)

Screen Grabs: ‘Who We Are’ lays out just how much racial justice has stalled

Plus: Poetic 'Why is We Americans,' listless 'Sundown,' rousing 'The Conductor'—and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,' too.

In ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby,’ W. Kamau Bell dives into the unspeakable

The comedian-documentarian talks about getting people to talk about 'America's Dad' as sexual predator for new Showtime series.

Screen Grabs: ‘Simple Passion’ is French, explicit, and kind of meh

Plus: A ludicrous new Woody Allen movie, Poly Styrene's life gets x-rayed, Italian youth speak out

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

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

Opinion: Are we losing the Castro Theatre?

New management Another Planet Entertainment wants to "explode" the neighborhood with music and entertainment. But what about good old films and LGBTQ events?

Screen Grabs: Help, there’s a yak in the classroom

A film from Bhutan heads to the Oscars. Plus: 'The Jockey,' 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,' and the final film from Jóhann Jóhannsson

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

Screen Grabs: ‘Parallel Mothers’ and other foreign concerns

Almodóvar's latest is a trail of tears. Plus Iran's Asghar Farhadi returns to fine form, and Léa Seydoux carries 'France'