Arts & Entertainment The Day Cynicism Took A Holiday: Batkid Begins I had barely dried the tears from my face after seeing Inside Out when I had to go to a screening of the documentary Batkid Begins. Just as I feared, I was overcome
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Dope, The Wolfpack, Frameline Fest Dope - Everywhere High school comedy/drug caper set in L.A. follows a self-professed "90's hip hop geek" who plays in a punk band and gets straight A's. He and his friends
Arts & Entertainment An Extraordinary Thing: Inside Out It's basically a given that if the movie comes from Pixar, I'm going to be crying at some point. Maybe within the first 10 minutes (Up); or closer to the end (Toy Story
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Jurassic World, Live From New York!, 7 Minutes Jurassic World - Everywhere This month's Jessica Chastain movie doesn't star Jessica Chastain, it stars Bryce Dallas Howard, but same diff. Remember all the death and disaster the dinosaurs caused in the first
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Spy, Entourage, SF Docfest Spy - Everywhere At first, I was extremely skeptical about this comedy starring Melissa McCarthy, mainly because I feared it would be full of humor centered around her weight and oh, ho ho,
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: San Andreas, Aloha, Green And Silent Film FestIvals San Andreas - Everywhere NOPE. Nope nope nope. I won't be seeing a movie about the destruction of California via massive earthquakes, while sitting in a theater in California, thankyouverymuch. And, ohey there
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Poltergeist, Good Kill, Everything Is Terrible! Poltergeist - Everywhere Back in 1982, when the original Poltergeist opened, I was a bit obsessed with it, and would end up seeing it a total of six times in a theater. What
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrowland: A Cold And Bloated Mess Imagine a world filled with only geniuses, inventors, dreamers, and thinkers, who are allowed to be awesome and fulfill their potential without the constraints of societal laws or expectations. That is the world
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mad Max, Pitch Perfect 2, YSL, And Big Bird Mad Max: Fury Road - Everywhere I feel like May is becoming "Let's Relive 1982!" Month, with the opening of the fourth entry into the Mad Max series today, and the Poltergeist remake
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Hot Pursuit, Maggie, Cambodian Rock and Roll Welcome to Me - AMC Van Ness and Presidio Welcome to Me is like a Saturday Night Live movie based on a character that really shouldn't have a back story. Would Penelope, Kristen
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Avengers, Adult Beginners, And The End of the Tour Avengers: Age of Ultron — Everywhere By the time you finish reading this sentence, this sequel will have made another million dollars. Far From the Madding Crowd — Embarcadero Latest adaption of the classic Thomas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," local chef Jamie Lauren made crab, NOT scallops. Quickfire Challenge. Eric Ripert was the guest judge and the challenge had three parts. Part one, clean and butterfly two sardines
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," local chef Jamie Lauren did NOT make scallops. Quickfire Challenge: Make some thing for guest judge Scott Conant. It involved a stupid "Superbowl pool" type of assignment system, with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef": Scallops. And also, an episode we only got to see half of because of a screwed up recording, and a complete lack of desire to seek out another airing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," Jamie made scallops. Twice. This past week on "Top Chef," Jamie made scallops. Yes, again. Let's see what one of her fellow chefs thought about that. You know what?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV We're back from our little holiday hiatus. Did you miss us? (Don't answer that.) Luckily, "Top Chef" has been on hiatus too. So try to remember back two weeks when that last new
Arts & Entertainment Secretly Rich, Openly Lame You've probably already heard about local millionaire Gurbaksh Chahal's recent appearance on the possibly reprehensible reality show "Secret Millionaire." If you missed it, here's your chance to view the whole episode in all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV First up, Stefan professed his love, or lust, for Jamie, by giving her a stuffed animal. Because if anything can cut through the lesbian shield, it's a stuffed dog! Quickfire Challenge! Palate testing!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV This week TiVo decided it only has patience enough for one "Survivor" episode on its hard drive at a time. Being that this week presented us with one Thursday episode and the finale
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously to that, we had the awesome episode where they blindsided Randy and it was awesome in its awesomeness. Post-tribal council Bob was peeved about all the laughing that went on over Randy's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Quickfire Challenge! With guest judge Grant Achatz. The challenge was to put "their own spin" on a recipe assigned to them from the Top Chef cook book. La la la they're going along,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Post-Tribal Council, and the newly merged "Nobag" tribe ("Nobag"? Really??) was shaky. Corinne realized she was doomed. She and Randy bonded over their hate of everyone alive. Bob told Sugar he didn't find
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV This week Marjorie tried to convince herself that she'd try to calm the hell down and not let her nerves get to her, although she was also under the impression that her nerves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Ah, yes. The go-see episode! Since the models are in Amsterdam, they would, of course, have to go on their go-sees via boat, and they weren't speedboats. Marjorie was nervous, and lost, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TVr This week on "America's Next Top Model" this girls flew to AmsterDAAAAAAM, which is in Europe, which means Marjorie and Elina's patented brand of European moodiness would fit right in, right? Once in
