Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Burnt, Scouts Guide To the Zombie Apocalypse, Our Brand Is Crisis Burnt - Everywhere I'm not sure which is worse, this dramatic comedy starring Bradley Cooper as a brash chef, or the endless use of cooking and food metaphors being used in every single
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Room, Paranormal Activity, Rock the Kasbah, Experimenter, Poe Room - Embarcadero and Kabuki There are men who kidnap and imprison women in order to keep them as their own personal sex slaves, often for years. This is a real thing that
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Bridge of Spies, Goosebumps, Steve Jobs, Victoria Bridge of Spies - Everywhere I was convinced I'd be bored silly by Bridge of Spies, mainly because I'm not a fan of Spielberg's "serious" movies. When it comes to those films, he
Arts & Entertainment Not Particularly Scary: Crimson Peak, Reviewed Is a horror movie a failure if it doesn't manage to scare you? Perhaps. And especially if an aim to fright is the only thing it's got going for it. But Guillermo del
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Pan, Freeheld, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, He Named Malala Pan - Everywhere This is a big, loud, chaotic, 3D "prequel" to Peter Pan, giving Peter and the pirate their origin stories. But aside from the 1953 animated Disney movie, has there ever
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Martian, The Walk, 3 Still Standing, Finders Keepers The Martian - Everywhere NASA's shuttle program was shuttered a few years back, and Hollywood has reacted to this by producing a number of movies that center on astronauts and their adventures in
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Goodnight Mommy, The Intern, Stonewall, Hotel Transylvania 2 Goodnight Mommy - Embarcadero Twin boys enjoying summer explore the corn fields, lake, and caves that surround their remote house. Then they hear a car in their driveway. Mother's home. Or is she?
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Phantom Of The Opera's Crazy Chandelier Last week SFist got a backstage look at the workings of The Phantom of the Opera's most famous prop —the chandelier. Anyone familiar with the show knows the chandelier has one big moment
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Sleeping With Other People, Everest, The Scorch Trials Sleeping With Other People - Kabuki When does an homage/tribute turn into a copy? Granted, Sleeping With Other People isn't hiding the fact that it owes much to When Harry Met Sally,
Arts & Entertainment The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend: Black Mass, Reviewed Black Mass tells the true story of James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp), who lead a crime ring in Boston in the 1970s and 80s; his brother Billy Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch), a Massachusetts state
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Visit, The Perfect Guy, Wolf Totem The Visit - Everywhere The good news is, M. Night Shyamalan has made his best movie in years. The bad news is, it's another damned found footage horror movie. The divorced mother (Kathryn
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: A Walk In The Woods, The Transporter Refueled, The Second Mother A Walk in the Woods - Everywhere I read Bill Bryson's A Walk In the Woods right after I read Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and it was the perfect counterpoint: fewer dying moms, more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Phantom Of The Opera</i> At The Orpheum Since its premier in 1986, Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera has broken records as the longest-running Broadway musical of all time, and has played San Francisco more than once. It
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: No Escape, We Are Your Friends, We Come As Friends No Escape - Everywhere The jokes about this movie and its title — "No escape from this garbage!" — are easy, and not entirely true. There is an escape: just don't see it, because it's
Arts & Entertainment Women Of A Certain Age Rule 'Grandma' And 'Learning To Drive' Unless you're Meryl Streep or Diane Keaton, good, complex leading roles for Actresses of a Certain Age can be hard to come by. Which is why it's refreshing that we have two movies
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mistress America, Hitman: Agent 47, Being Evel Mistress America - Everywhere I fell in love with Greta Gerwig the minute I saw her make a face while eating bad pizza in the horror movie The House of the Devil. Since
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Straight Outta Compton, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Everywhere Hey look, it's another movie based on a television series! Guy Ritchie directed this one, and Henry "Superman" Cavill stars alongside Armie "Twins"
Arts & Entertainment 'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl' Is Perfect, Frank, And True The media was having a field day trying to figure out why Alexander Skarsgard showed up in drag at the San Francisco premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Fantastic Four, The Gift, The End Of The Tour Fantastic Four - Everywhere So, is the idea to just keep rebooting these comic book movies until there's one that everyone — critics, the masses, the diehard fans — loves, then make three of those,
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mission Impossible, Vacation, Wet Hot American Summer Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - Everywhere These days, attempting to separate the image of Tom Cruise, loony Scientologist elder, from the image of Tom Cruise, Big Movie Star is a nearly impossible mission.
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Irrational Man, Pixels, Southpaw, Paper Towns Irrational Man - Kabuki and Embarcadero At the end of high school and the beginning of college, when I was beginning to study film, I was really into movies by the likes of
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Self/less, Minions, The Gallows Self/less - Everywhere Imagine being able to live forever in the body of Ryan Reynolds. Welcome to the (sort of) plot of Self/less. Ben Kingsley plays a dying New York billionaire
Arts & Entertainment More Than Smeared Eyeliner: Amy While most of the world seemed to view the death of Amy Winehouse as unsurprising and an inevitable end, I was shocked. I thought she'd end up the equivalent of Keith Richards, or
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies - Magic Mike XXL, Terminator Genisys, Jimmy's Hall Magic Mike XXL - Everywhere The only sin the original Magic Mike committed was trying to get serious near its end. (Well, that and the inexplicable casting of Cody Horn as the love
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Infinitely Polar Bear, Ted 2, The Overnight Infinitely Polar Bear - Embarcadero Mark Ruffalo stars as Cam, the bi-polar father of two young girls in 1970's Boston, who must take on full-time fathering when his wife, Maggie, (Zoe Saldana), goes
