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The genius of Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown

John-Paul Shiver - September 7, 2020

In the James Brown bio-pic Get On Up from 2014, actor Chadwick Boseman presented the American composer and bandleader in the same manner life presented...

Movies

Ficks’ Picks at the 11th Annual CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - August 28, 2020

This year's mind-melting batch of experimental films at San Francisco Cinematheque's 11th annual CROSSROADS 2020, may be extremely helpful to some of you looking...

Movies

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2020

One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...

Campaign Trail

The TikTok campaigns

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 13, 2020

After a few edits and some graphics, Sameera Rajwade uploaded the first video to her TikTok account. Within a day, it had racked up...

Music

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

John-Paul Shiver - August 11, 2020

Welp, I was wrong. HULU may actually be an acronym for stupid. As we move with GREAT hesitation these days—government mishandled pandemics and all—the need...

Movies

Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Pam Grady - July 29, 2020

A visit to London planted the seeds for the romantic sci-fi drama Around the Sun, which opens a run in the Roxie Virtual Cinema...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Dennis Harvey - July 17, 2020

This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......

Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

John-Paul Shiver - July 6, 2020

With this past weekend, summer's officially here—and while that may not mean dancing in the streets, you can certainly use some new protest and...

Movies

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Joshua Rotter - June 23, 2020

When Jacki Weaver was asked to star in director Thom Fitzgerald’s latest film, Stage Mother, the Academy Award-nominated Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook...

Culture

Screen Grabs: Lesbian filmmakers who destroyed stereotypes

Dennis Harvey - May 20, 2020

While there’s still no ETA on when movie exhibition spaces will be back open in California, there’s still plenty of ways to support those...

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The genius of Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown

Ficks’ Picks at the 11th Annual CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

The TikTok campaigns

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Screen Grabs: Lesbian filmmakers who destroyed stereotypes

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