How much do we love early Woody Allen? We went half-way across the world to the Balboa Theater Thursday night for their The Reel San Francisco! festival screening of the Woodman's Take the Money and Run. That's how much. For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as his wife Louise (Janet Margolin- a cross between Neve Campbell and Julia Louise Dreyfuss- put's it "it's who you know") is his first movie he wrote (well, co-wrote with Mickey Rose), directed and starred in. It's so early it's missing the now trademark black background, white type title, and Dixieland jazz title sequence. It's so early it doesn't feature Mia Farrow or Diane Keaton. Yet it's as good as any of his early comedies which means it's about as funny a movie as a movie could possibly be. And then even funnier than that. ...

We had such fun at last year's Reel San Francisco film series at the Balboa Theater, their series of movies set in and/or made right here in San Francisco (not Vancouver masquerading as such). The second annual series begins this Sunday and runs until Thursday, April 27. Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting.......

Y'all know that the first thing on your movie plate this weekend should be the San Francisco International Film Festival -- that's pretty much all we got going on. So many great movies this weekend and beyond, do youself a favor and break out of your usual routine and hit some of these fantastic shows and events. OK, you're just not in an International Film Festival mood, we can accept that. So, what to......

Oh holy cow, so many cool movies to see this weekend, many of which are being screened at our beloved Balboa. Tonight we have the Jack McCoy Surf film festival at 7:15 and 9 p.m., which is cool, sure. But Saturday heralds the opening of The Reel San Francisco, nearly a month of San Francisco-set movies, with filmmakers and authors introducing many of the shows. This weekend you can see cinema classics Bullitt (with......