SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent' Allows The Legend To Retain Some Mystery I think I went to Jeremiah Tower's Stars Restaurant only once when it was close to the height of its fame. I remember this occasion because it was around 1988 or '89, and
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 Epic Adventure 'The Lost City Of Z' Tiptoes Through Thorny Racial Issues James Gray's , based on the best selling book by David Grann, is an epic adventure that brings to mind cinematic classics like Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, and similar stories centered on obsessive
Arts & Entertainment 'Song To Song' Is A Vacant Shell Of A Film Terrence Malick, the auteur who used to spend a decade or so between film projects, returns to the screen this week with , his fifth film in six years. It follows 2016's Knight of
Arts & Entertainment Gross-Out Horror Movie 'Raw' Lives Up To Some (But Not All) Of The Hype Paramedics being called to festival screenings of your movie because audience members fainted is probably the best bit of pre-release hype a horror movie can get, so I don't blame those at Focus
Arts & Entertainment Chick Flick Cliches Abound In 'The Last Word' Wednesday was International Women's Day, so it's the perfect week to release something like , a movie centered on three generations of women, one with the kind of face that doesn't get a lot
Arts & Entertainment Stellar Cast Can't Save 'Table 19' Table 19 is an indie comedy that tries to capture the awkwardness of having to sit with people you don't know at weddings, especially when you wonder if you've been seated with all
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 Wooden And Laughable 'Fifty Shades Darker' Is More Cautionary Tale Than Romance In hindsight, the ending of the first movie, in which our once naive heroine finally recognizes the inherent cruelty in her lover's sexual proclivities and decides to walk away from him forever, was
Arts & Entertainment Maudlin Mediocrity Fills 'The Space Between Us' Sometimes you see a movie and the only reaction you can really have is, "Hunh. So, that's what they came up with? They had money, and a good cast, and an interesting story,
Arts & Entertainment 'Gold,' Panned I'm so tired. So tired of movies centered on morally bankrupt white men men who get rich off of the middle class, or the poor, or the backs of minority labor. So tired
Arts & Entertainment Standard Girls-Trapped-In-A Basement Thriller 'Split' Isn't Weird Enough In 2015, M. Night Shyamalan returned to the horror genre with , a film that was his best in over a decade. Now he's back with Split, another horror flick that, while not quite
Arts & Entertainment 'Paterson' Illustrates A Life Of Quiet Inspiration Henry David Thoreau wrote "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Some might see the life led by Paterson, the lead character in Jim Jarmusch's latest film, , and think that in
Arts & Entertainment 'Hidden Figures' Reminds Us That We Have A Long Way To Go, Baby Hidden Figures tells an inspiring story about four women much of the world had probably previously never heard of, whose work and perseverance in the face of institutionalized racism and sexism broke astronomical
Arts & Entertainment Icky Stalker Scenario Spoils Intriguing Premise Of 'Passengers' is being billed as an sci-fi action romance starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as two passengers on an interstellar voyage who accidentally wake up decades before they're set to arrive at their
Arts & Entertainment It's Hard Not To Be Swept Away By 'La La Land' I'm a bitter cynic who's long insisted I don't like musicals, even though there's more than one in my list of top 20 favorite movies, and just hearing songs from my favorite childhood
Arts & Entertainment 'Arrival' Is Both Sci-Fi Spectacle And Art House Head Trip It's an interesting time for a movie like . Had I seen it a week ago, and not the day after the beginning of the apocalypse election, my reaction to it may have been
Arts & Entertainment 'Moonlight' Is One Of The Best Films Of 2016 is easily one of, if not the best, films I've seen this year. It crushed me, and made me remember just why I love the movies. That's something easily forgotten when you have
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Fails Again With 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children' While I've often appreciated the films of Tim Burton, I've very rarely loved them, finding him too often to be so involved with the the look of his films that he forgets he's
Arts & Entertainment 'The Magnificent Seven' Is Lukewarm, At Best As a fan of both Seven Samurai and its 1960 American remake, The Magnificent Seven, I was eager to see the third telling of the tale. Akira Kurosawa was a hard act to
Arts & Entertainment 'The Dressmaker''s Uneven Tone Makes For A Jarring Experience The Dressmaker opened overseas last year, and became the second highest-grossing film of 2015 in its home country of Australia. But I seriously doubt it will be met with quite the same enthusiasm
SF News There's Nothing Special About The New 'Blair Witch' At All It seems like everyone has their own Blair Witch Project story, from claims that the film didn't frighten them at all, to those who thought it was actually a documentary, to those (like
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 'Don't Breathe' Goes Where Most Modern Horror Movies Won't In a scene near the beginning of Don't Breathe, our three teenage antiheroes are sitting in a car, casing the next house they're going to rob. It's owned by a recluse who won
