Arts & Entertainment Is Aaron Sorkin Plotting a Sequel to 'The Social Network,' About the Moral Downfall of Mark Zuckerberg? In an interview with Jesse Eisenberg on 'Fresh Air' this week he talks about his changing view of a man he portrayed over a decade ago, Mark Zuckerberg. And, apparently, a sequel or follow-up to 'The Social Network' may be in the works.
Arts & Entertainment Palo Alto Donkey Who Served as the Model for the ‘Shrek’ Donkey Has Died A Jerusalem miniature donkey in Palo Alto named Perry served as the movement model for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character Donkey in the animated franchise, but Perry succumbed to a hoof disease last week.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 Outdoor Free Movies In the Park Lineup Has Arrived Hey, ‘Barbie’, ‘Bullitt’, and ‘Labyrinth’ are among your summer outdoor movies in various SF parks this year, as the SF Parks Alliance brings back the popular outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Putting ‘Free Blockbuster’ Kiosks Around the Bay Area, and Really the Whole Country Retro movie lovers are creating their own DIY “Free Blockbuster” kiosks so people can borrow or leave DVD and VHS movies for free, and a smattering of these lending libraries are popping up around the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment The North Bay’s Go-To Online Movie Schedule Guides are Shutting Down Today The 28-year run of SonomaMovies.com, and its sister site NorthBayMovies.com, will come to an end today, as the site’s sole proprietor is calling it quits on aggregating movie showtimes for a five-county, 160-mile stretch of Northern California.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Shang-Chi’ an Epic SF Car Chase, Followed by Two Hours of Sporadically Good Comic Book Movie The Muni-kung fu-swordfight-car chase scene on SF hills is well worth the price of admission, but the rest of ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ is, well, up and down.
Arts & Entertainment Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Trailer Arrives, With a Muni Bus Martial Arts Battle The teaser trailer for SF-shot ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ dropped today, and a battle scene on the 1-California has local comic book fans in a delirious state of squee.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Which Will Be Streamed and Shown At the Drive-In SF’s homegrown film festival returns with 103 films from 41 countries, highlighted by the Oakland High-focused 'Homeroom,' a 'Sesame Street' documentary, and the first batch of COVID-19 and quarantine films.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area's Drive-In Movie Theaters Reopen For Business, Nostalgic Fun What better way is there to seek out some entertainment during this pandemic than at a drive-in movie theater, safely distant from other cars, eating and drinking whatever you packed — and most importantly, doing something outside your house!
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Present 'Gay San Francisco' Online Screening Tuesday evening, the Tenderloin Museum is presenting a screening of an underground documentary, shot on 16mm film, that captures some of crazier and most rarely seen images from real-life queer San Francisco in the late 1960s.
Arts & Entertainment 'Clue' Director Jonathan Lynn Discusses Almost Casting Carrie Fisher at SF Sketchfest At the Castro Theatre on Sunday evening, SF Sketchfest celebrated the 35th anniversary of the cult-classic comedy whodunit 'Clue,' with star Colleen Camp, bit player Jane Wiedlin (of Go-Gos fame) and writer-director Jonathan Lynn.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Movie Theaters On Edge For 'Joker' Premiere Seven years after a mass shooter dressed as the Joker killed a dozen people at a Colorado movie theater during a premiere screening of The Dark Knight, the release of the dark Warner Bros. origin story Joker had theaters around the country bracing for the worst.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Locally Shot 1976 C-Grade Horror Flick 'The Milpitas Monster,' Screening Monday Locally famous (in Milpitas anyway) homegrown, low-budget horror film The Milpitas Monster (1976) just aired Saturday night on Northbay TV's (channel 49) "Creature Features," a reboot of KTVU's long-running horror movie series hosted
Arts & Entertainment Watch The First Trailer For 'Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built' Just in time for Halloween weekend, we have the first teaser trailer actually a pretty extended teaser at that for the Winchester Mystery House movie that you've been hearing about all year, now
Arts & Entertainment You Can Now Stream Over 30,000 Movies For Free With Your SF Public Library Card The streaming service Kanopy has been steadily teaming up with libraries across the country—including in NYC and Los Angeles—to bring a massive movie selection to cardholders, for no additional charges. Today,
Arts & Entertainment 'Happy Death Day' Is John Hughes With A Side Of Stabbing does not hide its obvious debt to the film Groundhog Day — in fact a character comments on the similarities between the seemingly cursed heroine's plight and the plot of the 1993 film. But
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House Movie Gets New Name And A Final Release Date The new Hollywood thriller based on the life of Sarah Winchester, the enigmatic owner and mind behind the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, just landed a brand new release date and new
Arts & Entertainment 'I Am Not Your Negro', 'The Big Sick' Lead PROXY SF's Outdoor Movie Night The second annual PROXY and HERE FOR NOW Fall Film Festival in Hayes Valley is set to kick off this Friday, and they just released their full lineup of films. Whereas many outdoor
SF News 'Transformers' Production Crew Paints Over Downtown Vallejo Memorial, Outcry Ensues A Vallejo mural that was created to remember the tragic passing of local youth has vanished underneath a coat of bland brown paint. The mural's cover-up happened as a result of an accident,
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars App Lets You Watch Tie Fighters Fly Over The Golden Gate Bridge Starting today, if you have some spare time, and the Star Wars app on your phone, you can hold it up to take a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and see a
SF News Both 'Transformers' And '13 Reasons Why' Are Filming In The Same Marin 'Hood San Rafael's Peacock Gap neighborhood might want to change its name to Tinseltown. The Marin Independent Journal (breathlessly) reports that crews from both Transformers Universe: Bumblebee and Netflix's 13 Reasons Why are currently
SF News Netflix Guy Wants To Give You All The Movie Theater Tickets You Want For $10 A Month A cineplex subscription service dropped the price of a monthly MoviePass to $10. Will you please now leave the house and go to an actual movie theater? Bloomberg brings us news of Mitch
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Full Frameline Schedule for 2017 The Frameline LGBTQ film festival, which serves as the unofficial kickoff of SF Pride proceedings when it begins its ten-day run from June 15-25, posted its full 2017 lineup of 147 films from
SF News Johnny Depp Will Play Tech Weirdo John McAfee In A Movie Former teen heart-throb and accused domestic abuser Johnny Depp is set to star in King of the Jungle, an upcoming film about tech entrepreneur turned cocaine/maybe other things addict turned international fugitive
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Movie Theaters In The Bay Area More and more it seems going to the movies has become a special-occasion thing for a lot of people, and Hollywood obviously struggles every year to come up with reasons to get us
