Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The 5th Wave, Dirty Grandpa, The Lady In The Van, Noir City The 5th Wave - Everywhere AKA, The Hunger Games with Aliens. The world is on the verge of complete destruction by aliens, and only Chloe Grace Moretz and a bunch of teenagers can
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Ride Along 2, Norm Of The North, Bowie At The Castro 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - Everywhere If you think this will be a realistic, fact-based, and sober look into the events that occurred at that diplomatic compound in Libya on
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Revenant, Anomalisa, The Forest, Censored Voices The Revenant - Everywhere The Revenant is one of the most violent, grueling, and gory movies I've ever seen, and this is coming from someone who regularly watches The Walking Dead while eating
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Joy, Daddy's Home, Concussion, Point Break, The Hateful Eight While some of these movies have early screenings tonight, most won't open until Christmas Day. Check your local listings! Joy - Everywhere David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook players are back for this
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters, Chipmunks, Every Thing Will Be Fine Star Wars: The Force Awaken - Everywhere I'd love to have something to say about this little indie movie, but while there was a screening for critics, SFist was either not cool enough
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Carol, In The Heart Of The Sea, The Danish Girl Carol - Embarcadero Todd Haynes is back with another story about homosexuality in the 1950s, but this time he's adapted a book, The Price of Salt, written by famed mystery author Patrica Highsmith
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Chi-Raq, Krampus, Macbeth Chi-Raq - Metreon Spike Lee's latest adapts the ancient play Lysistrata by Aristophanes and sets it in modern-day Chicago, complete with dialogue that's part rap, part iambic pentameter. As gang war accelerates, girlfriends
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Good Dinosaur, Creed, Legend, Victor Frankenstein The Good Dinosaur - Everywhere In any other year Pixar's The Good Dinosaur would garner the usual universal praise and go on to win an Oscar. Unfortunately, it comes the same year as
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mockingjay Part 2, The Night Before, Secret In Their Eyes, Peggy Guggenheim The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part Two - Everywhere I read the Hunger Games trilogy, and thought the books got progressively worse, and could barely finish the third, which was a slog. Of
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Spotlight, Love The Coopers, By The Sea Spotlight - Metreon and Kabuki It's both a good thing and a sad thing that I went into the movie Spotlight not knowing all that much about the molestation scandal that rocked the
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Peanuts Movie, I Smile Back, Tab Hunter The Peanuts Movie - Everywhere Well, at least these CG Peanuts don't look as completely terrifying as The Today Show's Halloween costume versions. And at least Charles Shulz's son and grandson had a
Arts & Entertainment Too Much Plot: <em>Spectre</em>, Reviewed I have a conflicted relationship with James Bond movies. In some respects I find them quite boring, as they always follow the same story arcs, and predictably end with Bond living to die
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Burnt, Scouts Guide To the Zombie Apocalypse, Our Brand Is Crisis Burnt - Everywhere I'm not sure which is worse, this dramatic comedy starring Bradley Cooper as a brash chef, or the endless use of cooking and food metaphors being used in every single
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Room, Paranormal Activity, Rock the Kasbah, Experimenter, Poe Room - Embarcadero and Kabuki There are men who kidnap and imprison women in order to keep them as their own personal sex slaves, often for years. This is a real thing that
Arts & Entertainment Not Particularly Scary: Crimson Peak, Reviewed Is a horror movie a failure if it doesn't manage to scare you? Perhaps. And especially if an aim to fright is the only thing it's got going for it. But Guillermo del
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Pan, Freeheld, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, He Named Malala Pan - Everywhere This is a big, loud, chaotic, 3D "prequel" to Peter Pan, giving Peter and the pirate their origin stories. But aside from the 1953 animated Disney movie, has there ever
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Martian, The Walk, 3 Still Standing, Finders Keepers The Martian - Everywhere NASA's shuttle program was shuttered a few years back, and Hollywood has reacted to this by producing a number of movies that center on astronauts and their adventures in
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Goodnight Mommy, The Intern, Stonewall, Hotel Transylvania 2 Goodnight Mommy - Embarcadero Twin boys enjoying summer explore the corn fields, lake, and caves that surround their remote house. Then they hear a car in their driveway. Mother's home. Or is she?
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Sleeping With Other People, Everest, The Scorch Trials Sleeping With Other People - Kabuki When does an homage/tribute turn into a copy? Granted, Sleeping With Other People isn't hiding the fact that it owes much to When Harry Met Sally,
Arts & Entertainment The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend: Black Mass, Reviewed Black Mass tells the true story of James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp), who lead a crime ring in Boston in the 1970s and 80s; his brother Billy Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch), a Massachusetts state
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Visit, The Perfect Guy, Wolf Totem The Visit - Everywhere The good news is, M. Night Shyamalan has made his best movie in years. The bad news is, it's another damned found footage horror movie. The divorced mother (Kathryn
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: A Walk In The Woods, The Transporter Refueled, The Second Mother A Walk in the Woods - Everywhere I read Bill Bryson's A Walk In the Woods right after I read Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and it was the perfect counterpoint: fewer dying moms, more
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: No Escape, We Are Your Friends, We Come As Friends No Escape - Everywhere The jokes about this movie and its title — "No escape from this garbage!" — are easy, and not entirely true. There is an escape: just don't see it, because it's
Arts & Entertainment Women Of A Certain Age Rule 'Grandma' And 'Learning To Drive' Unless you're Meryl Streep or Diane Keaton, good, complex leading roles for Actresses of a Certain Age can be hard to come by. Which is why it's refreshing that we have two movies
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Mistress America, Hitman: Agent 47, Being Evel Mistress America - Everywhere I fell in love with Greta Gerwig the minute I saw her make a face while eating bad pizza in the horror movie The House of the Devil. Since
