Tag: Movies
Screen Grabs: Elders on the move, in love and crisis
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a couple navigating dementia in 'Supernova'; 'Nomadland' shows Frances McDormand weathering poverty
What we saw at Sundance 2021, part 2: More Ficks’ Picks at the big fest
Questlove's hypnotic 'Summer of Soul' sings, animated 'Cryptozoo' melts face, and two docs on Bay Area HS seniors bring cultural exposé close to home.
No cell phone? No vaccine.
Seniors who aren't tech-savvy and don't have cell phones are completely left out of the vaccination process in SF.
Screen Grabs: American dreams, American screams
'Happy Cleaners' and Sundance stand-out 'Minari' question mobility narratives, while 'Sator' charts a path to spectral horror.
What we saw at Sundance 2021, part 1: Ficks’ Picks at the big fest
Nicolas Cage, Tessa Thompson, Sparks, and a majestic Georgian tree—our annual peek at the giant movie event
Debut filmmaker Gina Rose explores sci-fi of the mundane in ‘I Can’t Sleep’
What if the aliens came and no one could cover your shift?
Screen Grabs: The outlaw sounds of youth
Lover's Rock and outlaw country docs. Plus: MC Escher, Black art history, and are we living in a simulation? New movies!
Screen Grabs: Intelligent adult drama? You don’t say
Filmmakers dive into tragic memory loss, senior homophobia, Mexican Jewish identity, thorny family issues
Screen Grabs: Shudders from around the world
Trapped in a 4x4 in Argentina, a bananas contraption from Indonesia, more global chills in new horror flicks
At Indiefest, director Rodrigo Reyes examines Mexico via time-traveling conquistador
Oakland filmmaker's '499' asks, How do we make tragic history real?
