We just looked at the SFist Watches we posted last Christmas and you know what? The TV offerings are basically the same this year! Darlene Love performing the best Christmas song ever, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Letterman tonight? Check. Twenty-four hours of A Christmas Story on TBS starting on Christmas Eve? Check. It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, (albeit on NBC and butchered by an hour's worth of commercial interruptions)? Check.......

Welcome to the fifth and final edition of this week's SFist Watches TV This Week extravaganza! We can hardly believe how quickly the week has gone, nor how many shows we've watched. And thank God it's Friday, because that means our viewing choices are, thanfully, a lot slimmer than they were last night. But just because the choices are slim doesn't mean we're willing to watch whatever the hell is on. Which means that......

We're deep in the heart of Fall premieres, and there's just no way all of our amazing commentary can be crammed into one measly post. So this week we'll be bringing you an "SFist Watches TV" post every damn day!! Contain your excitement! We have to get started! Ah, Monday. A night that had at one time been almost devoid of any compelling TV for us, is now loaded with new shows--and some old......

"SFist Watches TV" returns to the schedule on a new night...er, day, to better help you make sense of what the boob tube has to offer for the week ahead. While Fall doesn't officially begin until the end of September (and those who live in the City know that it doesn't really start until sometime in November), Fox is getting a jump on the other networks by starting their Fall premieres a lot sooner.......

Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not entirely true -- sometimes we watch Robot Chicken.) But we're making an exception tomorrow! Instead of our usual 7:30 p.m. routine (viz, watching Wheel of Fortune over our usual dinner of Lucky Charms and Trader Joe beer), we're tuning in to see ..... none other than our beloved editor-in-chief SFist Jackson MAKING HIS TELEVISION DEBUT!!!!! Yeeeeeeeeee-ha! Jackson's this week's talking head on local politics TV show SF Unscripted on Comcast Channel 11, hosted by local Republican Arthur Bruzzoni (he's the guy up left). He's talking about (what else?) blogging in local politics -- with unrepentant blogger and District 5 candidate Mr. h. brown. Check out Jackson sporting his cool pink shirt! Rrrowr! What's the SFist staff doing while Jackson rockets to fame? Drinking game! Play along with us tomorrow at 7:30! (Jackson, h., and Art Bruzzoni reair Thursday at 6:30, Friday at 8, and Saturday at 8:30).

We're sorry to bring you the sad news, but SFist has just received confirmation from an inside source at the Coronet Theater that this Thursday, March 17th, will be the last day in operation for the storied but doomed movie palace. Sounds like we're going to have to watch Revenge of the Sith at some crappy multiplex. Yuck. If you haven't seen Gazillion Dollar Baby, we recomend that you go see it at the Coronet......

SFist isn't even gonna play like we think you have any other moviegoing options this week besides the SFIAAFF this weekend. We are talking about the biggest damn Asian film festival in the country, 131 movies in 11 days, so how can you say you'll be seeing anything else? Take a look at the schedule of screenings and buy now, shows are selling out even as we type this. We'll be covering Oldboy, and......

SFist enjoys the who big-ass spectacle that is the Oscars, but we have to admit that we've always been really bad at seeing the nominated movies. They all just look so, we don't know, educational or something! Assuming you're not quite as dumb or lazy as we are, perhaps you've seen all the nominated films already. But if you haven't, SFist has you covered. Many of the nominated films are still in theaters, so......

SFist admits that we already have plans to see Constantine, which we hear is crap but the opportunity to see friends we haven't seen in ages, plus a pan from LaSalle makes us psyched to see it. That we're actually leaving the house, cats, and dog to see this movie in an actual theater in enough to make this film our Big Budget Pick of the Week, and we'll see you at one of......

We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner of the property, The Institute on Aging. We spoke to our friend Gary Meyer, owner of the Balboa Theater and SFist's go-to pundit on all things Movie Theater. He concedes that the economic pressures that impelled United Artists to divest themselves......

SFist Cares is going to tread a bit on the turf of SFist Watches: Movies and tell you about something you can do to support a good cause and still sit on your ass all weekend. Rock on. Artists' Television Access is presenting the Amnesty International Mini Film Festival, running this Saturday and Sunday. Films are $5 each, the price just covering the event itself. Cheap and requires no effort on your part whatsoever.......

SFist always feels vindicated when our nemesis, the Chron's Mick LaSalle, disses a movie we're interested in. As we might have mentioned before, he is our Bizarro-self when it comes to films, as everything he feels we feel in exactly the opposite. This week's tiny triumph of the SFist spirit (and our Big Budget Pick of the Week)is his dislike of Closer, which we have been (uncharacteristically, since there aren't any car chases, zombies, or......

Because SFist is ready for simpler times, when perhaps the country wasn't shrill shades of read and blue, but rather a more velvety purple, we're quite excited about this weekend's Sing-a-Long Purple Rain in celebration of the film's 20th anniversary. Things get all Lake Minnetoka this Saturday at midnight, at the Bridge Theatre (3010 Geary at Blake, Inner Richmond). It's the last showing of the Midnight Mass movie series, a favorite of SFist Watches, and......

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