Arts & Entertainment <em>Steve Jobs</em> Trailer Drops: The Next Big Thing Is Here In America, where gods of industry are all too literally considered deities, we're still not through contending with the legacy of Steve Jobs. Products aside, the technology leader's flair for theatrics makes him
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Newly Unveiled, Newly Refurbished New Mission Theater Sign In the last day or so, the scaffolding and tarps have come down around the historic New Mission Theater sign and marquee at Mission and 22nd, revealing a brightly painted version of the
Arts & Entertainment Trailer For SF-Shot <i>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</i> Arrives And Looks Amazing Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl was one of the breakout hits of Sundance this year, and will now be hitting
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 Video: Michael Fassbender Faces Thunderous Applause In First Trailer For 'Steve Jobs' Just last year, the cast and crew for an Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic was in chaos. Director David Fincher had bailed on the project, as had possible star Leonardo DiCaprio. Though eventual
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 Felicity Jones To Star In <i>Rogue One</i>, The First <i>Star Wars</i> Spinoff At a shareholders meeting in SF this morning, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made a few big announcements with regard to the Star Wars franchise, and fans across the internet are already
Arts & Entertainment New 'San Andreas' Trailer Does A Pretty Great Job Of Effing SF Right Up Now, you might look at the newest trailer for San Andreas, the earthquake-focused film shot in San Francisco (among other places) last summer and assume that it is the standard goofball disaster film,
Arts & Entertainment Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs At the risk of ruining the start of the work week, we have some worrisome casting news: Ashton Kutcher, star of That ’70s Show and Two and a Half Men, will play Steve
Arts & Entertainment Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Oakland Tonight Benjamin Button and Salt will jack up your Monday commute in Oakland tonight. And we couldn't be happier. (Glitz! Glamour! Celebrities! A-list celebrities! Chiseled bone structure!) See, Brad Pitt's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball
misc Photo du Jour 491 A pointy Quentin Tarantino doing a Q&A after Inglorious Bastards (or, Inglourious Basterds) screening at the Castro Theatre. Update: According to former SFist editor Jackson West, "[Quentin] showed up at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Heavenly States, along with French Miami, Railcars, 60 Watt Kid, Anderson Congress and Vitiligo, rally the troupes at tonight's DorkFest. 7:30 p.m. // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $10-$12
SF News Jan Wahl Slams <i>Bruno</i> Jan Wahl, the greatest wide-brim hat wearing Bay Area on-air talent of all time, gives Sacha Baron Cohen's , the film version of his popular fictional gay Austrian fashion reporter, a dismal review. Claiming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MOCK UP ON MU TRAILER - CRAIG BALDWIN FILM: The Bay Area's own Craig Baldwin, master of independent, experimental cinema, presents Mock Up on Mu, a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Raunchy rockabilly fave Reverand Horton Heat will heat up the Great American tonight with Danish psychobilly band The Nekromantix, who describe themselves as "Elvis meets the Wolfman." 7 p.m. // Great American
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This week's feature at Bad Movie Night is Rocky IV. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the statuesque Ivan Drago uses the highest technology to train for the fight of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Glen Park's Bird & Beckett Books & Records are having an 11-Hour Charlie Parker Jam Session to help Bird & Beckett "beat the banks." It's going on as we speak with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's Noise Pop Happy Hour boasts Music for Animals, Aim Low Kid, and Audio Out Send. If you haven't checked out any Noise Pop shows, be sure to check out the festival's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What in heaven's name are you thinking going out tonight, the night before New Year's Eve? And unless you're in rehab or hitting the pipe, don't even think about calling it "amateur night,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Jackie Mason, Pontius Pilot, Bacchus, Mother Theresa, Mohamed, Mary Magdalene, Phil Silvers, Satan, and more come together to throw shade at Our Lord and Savior Jesus H. Christ. Conceived by locals Howard
SF News Sean Penn Calls Prop 8 "Manslaughter" Gothamist's Amanda Spurlock attended a press conference with Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Alison Pill, and Emile Hirsch. Here's her report: Franco revealed that he wanted to be a part of the film
misc Today The World Ends Which means it's the last chance to warn you with this picture via punditkitchen.com. And that movie? It's confounding, off-kilter, and oddly visceral. It humbly plays for all the stakes and will
SF News Frank Chu Lands Movie Deal Well, sort of. Method actor and mentally-challenged San Francisco icon Frank Chu will appear in the upcoming flick -- brought to you by Gabriel Diamond, who brought you such household-name classics as Start
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Ready? OK!</i> (By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Review: <i>A Gentle Breeze in the Village</i> A Gentle Breeze in the Village was adapted from Fusako Kuramochi’s popular manga series Tennen Kokekko, and one of the young, female characters in the film is a talented manga artist. A