SCREEN GRABS While the SF Greek and Arab Film Festivals continue for their second, final weekends (see last week’s column for more details), it’s otherwise...
ONSTAGEÂ Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright.Â
“It seems...
Actor Rupert Everett, who’d already garnered critical notice in acclaimed art house films Another Country (1984), Dance with a Stranger (1985), and The Madness...
SCREEN GRABS Two of the major releases are major disappointments from hitherto reliable directors. Scenarist Drew Goddard’s first directorial feature since ingenious horror deconstruction...
Our critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks caught this year's Toronto International Film festival. Read more of his coverage here.Â
TIFFÂ It was no small feat to watch...
In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett’s acclaimed 2001 book—and now a movie by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma, American Pie), currently in theaters— people...
SCREEN GRABSÂ This week brings a whole lot of mini-festivals to various Bay Area screens. The Roxie has the Hola Mexico, a three-day touring edition...
48 Hills critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more of his on-the-ground reviews and impressions here.Â
TIFF Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters which...
