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 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' At ACT Is Powerful If Painful The Afghanistan of A Thousand Splendid Suns is not one of splendor. The play's title is a reference to brighter, long past moments in Kabul's history — when women were once freer than they
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 'Irving Berlin's White Christmas' Is Colorful, Lively, And Predictable The touring company of has returned to San Francisco for a ten day run through December 24th, at the Golden Gate Theater. It's a production that's colorful and lively, if a little too
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hard Problem' At ACT Is Dramatically, and Academically, Muddy The "hard problem" of this play's title refers to the very nature of consciousness, and spoiler alert, Tom Stoppard — a playwright whose beloved Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead have masterfully illuminated
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 Very, Very Funny: <em>Ghostbusters</em> It's difficult not to consider the 2016 version of the Ghostbusters story without acknowledging the maelstrom that enveloped it from the moment it was announced — fans vigorously opposed to a new version in
Arts & Entertainment Snowball Rules: <i>The Secret Life Of Pets</i>, Reviewed I think everyone has fantasies about what our animals do when we're not around. Do they sit and stare at the door all day, waiting for our return? Do they watch soap operas?
Arts & Entertainment Mainly For The Fans: <i>Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words</i> Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words is a documentary without a single shot of new footage. Instead, the film is comprised of archival video interviews and performances, spanning thirty years
Arts & Entertainment Striving For Wonder: <i>The BFG</i> I never read Roald Dahl's book The BFG as a kid, so pardon me for thinking, for a little while, that the title was short for "the Big Fucking Guy;" turns out it's
Arts & Entertainment Roundabout Theater Company's <i>Cabaret</i> Is One For Our Times I would never have thought a musical that originated in 1966, became more famous as a movie in 1972, and started as a short novel published in 1939, would feel so completely and
Arts & Entertainment Pretty, Disgusting: <i>The Neon Demon</i>, Reviewed You could toss any and all criticisms about Nicolas Winding Refn's new thriller The Neon Demon at me, and I'd probably agree with all of them. A preoccupation with style over story? Sure.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The House That Will Not Stand' at Berkeley Rep Plays about race are often tough sells, especially when the play has a didactic motive around a racially relevant moment in history. But even though The House That Will Not Stand, in a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Troublemaker' At Berkeley Rep Over the last couple of decades, Berkeley Rep has become a hotbed for new work, where young playwrights are not only sought out but cultivated, nurtured, and given room to grow. Such was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Book of Mormon' at the Curran Theater "Africa is NOTHING like The Lion King!" exclaims Elder Price in one of about a thousand funny moments in The Book of Mormon. And if there's one phrase that sums up the story
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Einstein on the Beach Einstein on the Beach, the revival of the 1976 collaboration between stage director Robert Wilson, choreographer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass hosted last week-end by Cal Performances, managed to sell out Zellerbach
