Arts & Entertainment Netflix Inks Deal With Dreamworks For New Original Animation Los Gatos-based Netflix announced today that they've just signed a deal with Dreamworks Animation for 300 hours of new original content based on Dreamworks characters. So, you can expect some spinoffs of Shrek,
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: '70s Horror Films At Vortex Room The Vortex Room's film screenings have been going on for a while, but there's still a secret, speakeasy-type feel to the little lounge, which doubles as movie theater when the lights go down
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: S.F. Scenes From Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' Will it be another Midnight In Paris success? Or will it be an Anything Else train wreck? And just where in the hell is Dianne Wiest? Who knows. Check out these San Francisco-heavy
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen's Movie 'Blue Jasmine' Features Many S.F. Spots You may remember seeing Woody Allen wandering the city in a fishing hat last year, and the fruits of his labor are on their way. The trailer is now out for 'Blue Jasmine',
SF News 'Fruitvale Station' Trailer Released -- Watch It Fruitvale Station released the first trailer today. The indie movie, which picked up the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, is based on the moments leading up to the murder of Oscar
Arts & Entertainment Supercut: The Worst Movie Moms Ever Here now, via Flavorwire, is a compilation perfect for Mother's Day called The Worst Movie Moms Ever. Edited by Jason Bailey, it features a gaggle of evil moms featured in such flicks as
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Tonight: 'Peaches Does Herself' First off, is Peaches still a thing? It seems like the only time we hear her — or rather, when we hear that song of hers — is during Dyke March after-parties. (God bless you,
Arts & Entertainment Watch This: 5 SFIFF Weekend Movie Picks The San Francisco International Film Festival is here, and tickets to this year's films are going like hotcakes. If you're looking to soak up a little culture this weekend, here are our top
Arts & Entertainment Our 10 Picks From The SF Int'l Film Fest Lineup The San Francisco Film Society has released the lineup of their 56th annual International Film Festival, and with 200+ films on order, it's sure to be a cultural binge with the inevitable FOMO
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Big Sur,' Shot In And Around S.F. At long last, and after the rather sad reception that the On the Road movie received in its narrow release in December, we have the trailer for the film of Kerouac's last good
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'Linsanity' At The Castro Theater Disclaimer: Tickets for tonight are available through RUSH only. Last year, NBA player Jeremy Lin became one of the world's most talked-about athletes in the world. His quick rise to fame, spurred by
Arts & Entertainment Best San Francisco Movie Theaters San Francisco movie audiences are arguably the worst in the entire country. They like to arrive late in typical flakey fashion, they hiss at the screen (please stop doing that), and, far worse,
Arts & Entertainment Next Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn Flick Is A Buddy Comedy About Google Remember when it was 2004 and the nation had collectively lost enough respect for itself to start calling its most popular comedy ensemble the Frat Pack? That was a real point in our
Arts & Entertainment That '70s Jobs: First Clip Of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Is Predictably Kutcherian Although we've had a preliminary glimpse with these sultry promo shots, it feels like we've been waiting ages — like the same amount of time we wait for a new iPhone, basically — to see
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Grant Movie 'Fruitvale' Buzzes At Sundance, Sells For $2.5 Million [Updated] Fruitvale, the feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant has been a big hit with the Hollywood bigshots in Park City for this year's Sundance Film Festival. After a successful premiere
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale': Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant For some of us, Michael B. Jordan will forever be known as Lions' quarterback Vince Howard on the greatest TV show of all time. But for many, he will soon be known as
Arts & Entertainment Who Should Play A 'Not Crazy' John McAfee In The Movie Adaptation? Software mogul and self-diagnosed not-insane person John McAfee is about to see his life flash before him on the silver screen. Or at least the part that begins with him living in Belize
Arts & Entertainment Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic Will Hit Theaters This April The first of two biographical films based on the life (or at least keynote presentations) of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be unleashed in American theaters this April, with noted actor/
Arts & Entertainment Netflix DVD Experiencing Outage [Update] Holy heck, people. Netflix is down again. Or rather it was. Following their Christmas Eve blackout, the movie rental service experienced an outage today. "We're Sorry. The Netflix site is temporarily unavailable. Our
SF News Oakland Hospital Documentary, Scientology Spinoff, Osama bin Laden Flick Top SF Film Critics Awards The San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards, which are like our local Academy Awards but with much less Billy Crystal, were announced today. And the winners are... P.T. Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix
SF News Netflix Says FU To Pay Cable, Strikes Exclusive Licensing Deal With Disney Netflix has just struck a major deal in a coup that's sending shockwaves through the pay-cable establishment. Under a new multiyear agreement, Netflix will have the exclusive right to stream Disney movies starting
SF News Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion; George Lucas Passes 'Star Wars' on 'To a New Generation of Filmmakers' George Lucas has just sold out to Disney, ladies and gentlemen, for the tidy sum of $4.05 billion in stock and cash. The deal, announced just minutes ago, represents Lucas' desire to
Arts & Entertainment Adele's New James Bond Theme Leaked The official theme tune for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, has been leaked online. It's by Adel and it lands with a resounding "oh yeah, that sounds like it's from a James
Arts & Entertainment New Artwork Coincides With This Weekend's 'Vertigo' Screening To go along with this Labor Day weekend's screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at the Castro Theatre, Spoke Art unveiled two new screen prints by artists Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith available for
Arts & Entertainment 'The Lost Boys' Celebrates 25 Years Of Cool Vampires and Dim-Witted Mothers You know The Lost Boys was shot partly in Santa Cruz, right? And the fictional town of Santa Carla, with that beach boardwalk and those sexy teenage vampires? Yep, Santa Cruz, except with
