Arts & Entertainment 'Mountainhead' on HBO Draws Eerie Parallels Between Billionaire Bros and Zizian Cult 'Mountainhead,' the timely new film on HBO/Max by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, is a somewhat satisfying if deeply unsettling sendup of tech-bro oligarchy and the convoluted-logic-as-wisdom rhetoric of their podcasts.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Irishman' Is Amazing, and Amazingly Slow Scorsese's latest epic, now playing at The Castro and at Alamo Drafthouse, is somber and slow, but also vital, intriguing, and real in its portrayal of an aging mafia hitman who was Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man.
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 Nice To See You: Terminator Genisys Terminator Genisys is not the best Terminator movie. It's not even the second-best Terminator movie. But, in a franchise with (so far) two great movies and two terrible ones, to come in in
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: 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 New Film With Script by Eggers and Vida Gets Scathing Review The new film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and with a script by local literary it-couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, received a gut-punch of a review by A.O. Scott
