Tag: Roxie
Screen Grabs: Who will live in cities? Who will save our parks?
Political docs 'Push' and "Public Trust' raise unique yet urgent questions, and go beyond the usual 'You better vote' message
Tom Dolby weaves life history into ‘The Artist’s Wife’
The SF-born director folds his family story into a tale of dementia, art, and marriage.
Screen Grabs: Keeping it together—and falling apart
Spotlight on mental health with Blackbird, Last Call, the Swerve, Rialto, and Oliver Sacks. Plus: The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Space Dogs
Screen Grabs: Bring on the zombies!
A bloom of horror in a pandemic, with #Alive, Spiral, Ravers, The Devil All the Time, more. Plus: Fort Mason drive-in opens
Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle
This week's must-stream films bring visions of faraway lands and all-too-close looks at our own.
Screen Grabs: Heavy themes for heavy times
New movies: Social media manipulation, voter suppression, deportation, white nationalism... Oh, and Suzi Quatro!
Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)
This week sees the US release at last of what must be the most re-scheduled movie in history, Tenet. Christopher Nolan’s latest Rubik’s Cube-y sci-fi extravaganza was the highest-profile...
From stoner cartoon frog to vicious alt-right icon in ‘Feels Good Man’
It is only appropriate that Feels Good Man, Arthur Jones's documentary about cartoonist Matt Furie and his creation Pepe the Frog should screen at the Roxie Theater's virtual cinema,...
Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’
One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of how far we’ve come as...
Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be
From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some low-down dirty thrills in a...
