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 save
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 course, as
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
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
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
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 happens,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 then,
