Entries from SFist tagged with 'merylstreep'
January 26, 2007
Tuesday night at the Eureka Theater, SF Sketchfest presented an up-tempo, mostly hysterical conglomeration of audio-visual entertainment. Interesting that this was Sketchfest's first-ever video night, when it's exactly the kind of evening you'd think would go by the wayside our YouTube world. (Hell, we've even got a video on YouTube, and we don't own a camera!)...
Continue Reading "SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night"September 5, 2006
San Francisco has a hot theater scene, but that doesn't mean the rest of the Bay Area doesn't sizzle as well. ...
Continue Reading "Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour"July 25, 2006
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival organizer who introduced 51 Birch Street at the Castro Theatre on Saturday said, "welcome to our high class shvitz." The bubbie sitting in front of us turned around and asked, "do you know what a shvitz is?" We wanted to tell her that if you looked up "shvitz" in Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish you'd see a picture of our shvitzy Korean-asses shvitzing like crazy all over the......
Continue Reading "SFJFF: 51 Birch Street"September 28, 2005
An impatient mob nearly turned ugly last night at 1000 Van Ness, thanks to Joss Whedon. His new movie Serenity opens Friday (to confirm the obvious, it's F**KING AWESOME; we'll review it later this week) and last night the TL movie theater held a free sneak peek. Capitalizing on the buzz that "Firefly" (the show on which the movie's based) generated online, Universal let bloggers reserve seats in advance, with the condition that they......
Continue Reading "Serenity Now, Insanity Later"July 15, 2005
We hate to sound like a broken record, but if we didn't already feel like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looked kinda ass, Mick LaSalle's glowing review sealed it for us. We don't really care if they remake every single movie made since 1971, we still won't be sobbing "you raped my childhood" or anything, we promise. But when you have Johnny Depp apparently playing Anna Wintour instead of Willy Wonka, you can't expect......
Continue Reading "SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend"