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Rocky Horror Picture Fail

SCREEN GRABS The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an important part of my young life. I first saw it in a theater in Greenwich...

Lights, camera, Mill Valley

SCREEN GRABS In the Bay Area we’re fortunate to have arthouses, film festivals and other outlets providing year-round access to movies not typically on...

Resurrecting the mighty Alhambra

SCREEN GRABS Designed inside and out by Timothy Pfleuger (who also created fellow art deco movie palaces the Castro and Paramount, among other Bay...

The stunning ‘Vertigo’ of ‘The Royal Road’

SCREEN GRABS It's a very good week for local film fans. Criterion, the go-to for quality art house releases just announced that its release of Valley...

The secrets of ‘Stranger Things’

SCREEN GRABS Netflix’s eight-part mini-series Stranger Things has a lot more to say than just referencing Stephen King novels and Steven Spielberg films. Taking the...

15 years in, DocFest opens eyes and minds

SCREEN GRABS When SF DocFest (running June 2-16 at various venues) launched 15 years ago, it didn’t seem all that sure a thing. Yes, impresario...

All eyes on SFIFF59

SCREEN GRABS This year's San Francisco International Film Festival -- the 59th installment of this seminal feast for the eyes, running at various venues April...

What we saw at Sundance

48 Hills film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks snuck into Sundance 2016 to scope out the best flicks of the fest.  1. Anna Rose Holmer, The Fits (USA/Italy) Quite...

Pornucopia! Dan Savage’s skin-flick fest returns

SCREEN GRABS Last year I was drenched -- figuratively, of course -- in porn. I spent several months writing a comprehensive history of porn music,...

‘Lowrider Lawyers’ put the city on trial

SCREEN GRABS A cherry lipstick red 1974 Chevrolet glided down 24th street in La Mision, as it’s called by La Raza and so many other...