Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Wilderness Survival for Girls Three girls go into the woods. They get drunk, they get naked, they get high. Do you think they might get dead? Wilderness Survival for Girls takes all the tension of a well-done
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party Stephen Tobolowsky is the ultimate "Hey! It's That Guy!". He's been in more than a hundred movies and on dozens of television shows but until you see him you probably think you don't
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess Hugh Dillon is back, as obnoxious late-night talk show host Bobby Tomahawk who interviews/taunts (intertaunts? We're just making up words here all over the place) Gillian Guess - a juror who slept
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Sunnyvale SFist is still thinking about Sunnyvale, which we saw at Cinequest last night. We decided to go to this movie because, well ok, the title was a draw, and it is also described
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Event: An Afternoon with Sir Ben Kingsley After viewing a sort of Oscar lifetime award nomination-esque series of clips from some of Sir Ben's more notable movies (i.e. Ghandi and House of Sand and Fog included, Rules of Engagement
Arts & Entertainment Smoochie Boochies In the Morning Smith has been filling in for the past couple of days and sadly, Friday will be his last day. According to his site, he called in last spring for a phone interview to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The After-the-Oscars Edition Well, the Oscars are over, so you can stop your vain attempt to see all the nominated movies -- a disappointing lot of them blew anyway -- and do something more interesting with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Isn't Too Cool For Traffic School Sometimes we at SFist break the law. Not necessarily in a "hold up the local 7-Eleven" kind of way, but in a "oh crap that schoolbus had its lights flashing" kind of way.
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend Oscars Special SFist enjoys the who big-ass spectacle that is the Oscars, but we have to admit that we've always been really bad at seeing the nominated movies. They all just look so, we don't
SF News Kottke to Success? He's quit his job and is attempting to pursue maintaining his site as a full-time venture. More power to him, we say. He's looking for a few (well, probably a few thousand) good
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bruce Campbell Alert! (Well, no, not really.) No big intro this week -- let's just get on with the picks, starting with something we just know you'll want to see: at the Off-Market Theater You guessed it: Evil Dead: Live
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics, folks. It's about all the
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Oakland Raiders Parking Lot Anyhoo, when SFist was younger, we had a boss who wouldn't stop talking about . When the movie played at SFMOMA, he took half the department with him to see it. During the work
Arts & Entertainment Rumors of The Coronet's Demise Are Slightly Exaggerated We're happy to hear that folks made it out to the Coronet, given that we, and everyone else had been told yesterday would be the Coronet's last day in business. However, according to
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Devil and Daniel Johnston We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- we liked that charmingly-naive "Speeding
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Antenna SFist wasn't quite sure what to expect when we went to last night's screening of , and our mind continues to reel almost 20 hours after experiencing the film. With undeniable references to Lynch
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: the Romantic-Industrial Complex Edition SFist would like to take a moment of silence for Arthur Miller, who passed away last night. Without question, Miller was one of the great American playwrights. We regret that we'd only read
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Munch on This The high point of this collection of short animations: "Petunia," a simple, lovely story about a moody guy and a flower; if it was CG rather than hand-drawn, it would be the sort
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Dry Spell Hey, have you heard? Apparantly men and women are very different, and at times they have problems connecting romanically! Who knew? Somebody ought to make a movie about that. Ha ha ha, we
