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
Arts & Entertainment 'The Promise' Is A Love Story Surrounded By Horror Taxes were due this week (if this is news to you, I'm sorry), and if you're a California resident paying state income tax, you may have once again been puzzled over a question
Arts & Entertainment Allegations Of Bed Bug Infestation At 1000 Van Ness Movie Theater Persist Gather round, children, while I tell you a tale of long ago. The year was 1998, the month was July, and the only decent multiplex in San Francisco was the Kabuki. Sure, there
Arts & Entertainment Can't-Miss Picks For The SFFILM Festival, Kicking Off Today Now in its 60th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival has just switched to the much snappier but somewhat unpronounceable name SFFILM Festival and begins tonight at the Castro Theatre. With more
Arts & Entertainment Filming Begins In San Jose For 'Winchester' Starring Helen Mirren Shooting has begun in and around the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose for the movie Winchester, the earlier announced supernatural thriller starring Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester. Via a press release and
Arts & Entertainment Pixar's Latest Animated Feature 'Coco' Is Set In Mexico With Lots Of Day-Of-The-Dead Magic The teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar's latest animated feature, Coco, has just been released, and the film tells the tale of a 12-year-old, guitar-playing Mexican boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Mustang Discovered In Mexico Is Lost Car From 'Bullitt', Ford Experts Verify After an epic chase, a treasured prop — or character, nearly — from the 1968 Steve McQueen classic Bullitt has been rediscovered, car experts say. Two models of the '68 Mustang were bought for the
Arts & Entertainment Hammy Acting Hobbles 'Bitter Harvest' is a historical drama with good intentions, but terrible execution. Set in 1930's Ukraine, it tells the story of the relatively unknown holocaust known as the Holodomor, which was, essentially, the state sponsored
Arts & Entertainment 11 Of The Best Romance Films And Rom-Coms Set In SF San Francisco, a popular place to leave one's heart, has played the backdrop to many a romance and romantic comedy. Here, a roundup of 11 of them that are varying degrees of charming,
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Fillmore Promoter Bill Graham Set For Film Treatment Bill Graham, a towering figure in San Francisco and rock history, is set to receive the music bio pic treatment courtesy of Fox. Deadline broke the news, reporting that writer Zach Dean and
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For The Film Adaptation Of Dave Eggers' 'The Circle' Starring Emma Watson Dave Eggers' dystopian 2013 novel The Circle, a timely take on TwitterFaceGoogle and **bong rip** the implications of, like, technology and mass surveillance, was a pretty good movie script and not even a
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drone Film Festival At The Roxie For the second year in a row, the Flying Robot international Film Festival will alight in San Francisco, chock full of shorts shot from up above. "The world's premier open competitive film festival
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Biopic In The Works With Michelle Williams To Star A Janis Joplin biopic that's been several years in the making now has a new celebrity signed on to star, Michelle Williams. As E! News reports, the film, based on the book Love,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alamo Drafthouse Celebration Of SF Cinema From 'Mrs. Doubtfire' To 'The Last Waltz' Has there ever been a better time to escape into the soothing oblivion of a dark movie theater? Not to mention one where you can drink at your seat and where you're expressly
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For New SF-Shot Bruce Lee Biopic 'Birth Of The Dragon' Kung fu master Bruce Lee, who was born in SF's Chinatown but raised in Hong Kong, is the subject of a new biopic currently making the festival rounds, Birth of the Dragon. Directed
Arts & Entertainment 'Sully' Manufactures Unnecessary Drama, Sells Subject Humorlessly Short I'll say up front that Sully was a difficult movie for me to watch, since one of my biggest fears is flying (and I happen to be getting on a plane Monday). But
Arts & Entertainment 'The Light Between Oceans' Is Pretty But Turgid The Light Between Oceans, adapted by writer and director Derek Cianfrance from the 2012 novel by M.L. Stedman, is an old-fashioned romantic tragedy filled with fateful events, bad choices, and really pretty
Arts & Entertainment <i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i> Is More Than Just Hilariously Bad Singing Remember when Meryl Streep was the queen of drama? When any movie in which she shed a tear was guaranteed to garner her an Oscar nomination, and often the prize itself? (A running
Arts & Entertainment We Don't Need <i>Jason Bourne</i> Jason Bourne, the fifth film in the franchise, but only the fourth to star Matt Damon as the titular character, is the Bourne movie we don't really need, except perhaps as a way
Arts & Entertainment R-Rated <i>Sausage Party</i> Trailer Screens Before <i>Finding Dory</i> And Concord Parents Flip Out This is pretty funny, at least if you're a non-parent: There's a totally dark and adult-themed animated feature coming out called Sausage Party, the trailer for which is above, and it's a stoner-esque
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The Premiere Of The <em>Looking</em> Movie At The Castro Theatre "Closing Night: Looking." Jonathan Groff had just managed to snap a cell phone picture of those words on the marquee at the Castro Theatre yesterday evening before he was recognized by a shrieking
Arts & Entertainment Friends, Family, And Growing Up: <i>Finding Dory</i>, Reviewed In my list of favorite Pixar movies, 2003's Finding Nemo is closer to the bottom than the top. Not because it's bad — it's actually pretty great — more because I never really felt a
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Mayor Declares This 'Tupac Shakur Day' As Teaser For Biopic Drops June 16, 2016 would have been Bay Area rapper Tupac Shakur's 45th birthday, but the New York-born, Marin City-reared star was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7,
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence To Play Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes In Upcoming Film In yet another example of Hollywood being obsessed with Silicon Valley lately, a new film is in the works by director/screenwriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) telling the story of the
Arts & Entertainment Silent Film Festival Sounds Awesome This Weekend Flappers, dandies and fetishists for all things 1920s will have their Wurlitzers in a bunch all weekend long for the 21st annual Silent Film Festival, kicking off tonight and running through Sunday at
