Tag: Trump Era
Screen Grabs: Borat’s ‘totally sensationalized false account’ and other bombshell releases
Sure, it has Giuliani looking suspect—but is 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' any good? Plus, a new documentary on the grifters leading the alt-right movement, and 'The Guardian of Memory.'
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: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more
With no end in sight yet for a public health crisis that (thanks to the inimitable bungling of Dear Leader) only other countries are successfully moving past, many arts...
Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil
The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American life like police violence, income...
Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now
As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump era, drowned out by his...
Foreign Correspondent: An open letter to a Trump-supporting friend
I first met Robby Robertson during the 1969 General Electric strike. He was a young, militant worker fighting for a decent contract and social justice. He considered himself a...
Queercore legends Team Dresch return to swing the bat of love
ALL EARS He’s a kid. He likes wearing wigs. “What he’s looking for/He won’t find in school,” Jody Bleyle sings, her strong, declarative voice rising to a challenge in...
Screen Grabs: Xmas Weekend flicks galore
SCEEN GRABS This week brings two major new films about “divisive” American political figures—not exactly what the general public usually wants for Xmas, but oh well. Neither of them...
Photographer Wesaam Al-Badry: from ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’ to Camp Fire
At the refugee camp where he lived with his family after the Gulf War broke out in their native Iraq, Wesaam Al-Badry thought the photojournalists who came to the...
Screen Grabs: Mill Valley, SF Dance, Drunken Film Fests ….
SCREEN GRABS It’s a starry as well as busy week in Bay Area filmgoing, with major openings including the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga A Star is Born remake—which yrs truly...
