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Movies

Sights set globally, Noir City dives into ‘a bitter little world’

Dennis Harvey -
No longer jailbait, but surely full of other moral and criminal sandtraps for the unwary protagonist, Noir City (Fri/24-February 2 at the Castro Theatre) hits...
Movies

Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
48 Hills festival movie critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks travels the continent for us checking out the biggest film events. He also hosts the invaluable...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Dennis Harvey -
This very random week at the movies features two big franchise reboots. Doolittle is from writer-director Stephen Gaghan, previously associated with such very grown-up...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: New year, death row

Dennis Harvey -
January is generally considered a dumping ground for unloved movies, squeezed in to fill any space remaining by Christmas and awards-bait major releases still...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Homage to a gorgeous legend + 2019’s best films

Dennis Harvey -
We’ve gotten to the point where icons of the 1960s are now dying off of old age, and last month that number was joined...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The (first world) war on Christmas

Dennis Harvey -
In years past it’s seemed customary for Christmas to bring some shiny presents for moviegoers—a mainstream comedy or two, probably some Disney opus, maybe...
Arts + Culture

For San Francisco, the Gay Men’s Chorus brings the ‘Holigays’ home

Joshua Rotter -
The holidays can be particularly challenging for members of the LGBTQ community — especially those who’ve lost loved ones to AIDS or who’ve felt...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Bombshells, Cats, and Star Wars—must be holiday time

Dennis Harvey -
As we are now single-digit shopping days from Xmas, the really big multiplex presents are arriving, whether they were on your wish list or...
Lit

Loving Whitney Houston: Robyn Crawford on their relationship, loyalty, and faith

Joshua Rotter -
Right after signing her first record deal with Arista Records in 1983, singer Whitney Houston swung by her best friend Robyn Crawford’s home with...
Movies

Michael Apted’s monumental, 55-year chronicle of class inequality

Joshua Rotter -
The central question in 63 UP— award-winning auteur Michael Apted’s ongoing documentary anthology, following the changing lives of 14 British subjects over the course...
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