Arts & Entertainment Aerial Dance Grapples With Domestic Violence In <i>Grace and Delia Are Gone</i> You may not expect an acrobatic, circus-style aerial performance to explore the topic of violence against women. But this improbable concept achieves great heights in Grace and Delia Are Gone, a new dance
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
Arts & Entertainment 'King Charles III' Is A Witty Dramedy Tailor-Made For Royal Watchers And Shakespeare Nerds The year is 2020, say, and beloved English monarch Elizabeth II has just died that's perhaps jumping the gun in terms of a prediction, though, given that she's only 90 this year and
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
Arts & Entertainment <i>War Dogs</i> Is A Derivative Pack Of One-Note Antiheroes Imagine you're a guy who became somewhat famous, or perhaps even infamous, and you've just found out a major motion picture is going to be made based on that part of your life.
Arts & Entertainment <i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i> Is More Than Just Hilariously Bad Singing Remember when Meryl Streep was the queen of drama? When any movie in which she shed a tear was guaranteed to garner her an Oscar nomination, and often the prize itself? (A running
Arts & Entertainment <i>Showgirls! The Musical!</i> Gives Gratuitous Skin, Spunk, And Satire For the last 18 years in a row, local drag icon Peaches Christ’s annual homage to the delightfully dreadful 1995 box office train wreck Showgirls has been a summer highlight on the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Suicide Squad</i> Is A Huge Swirling Vortex Of Trash Warner Bros. wants to make their DC comic book movies as popular as Disney's Marvel movies have been, with a plan that includes reboots, new standalone hero movies, and a Justice League film,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New SFMOMA Restaurant In Situ Is A Fun, If Pricey, Trip Through Modern Global Cuisine In opening his new restaurant at the expanded SFMOMA, called In Situ, chef Corey Lee explained that he and his staff would "performing" the work of other chefs around the world, interpreting their
Arts & Entertainment We Don't Need <i>Jason Bourne</i> Jason Bourne, the fifth film in the franchise, but only the fourth to star Matt Damon as the titular character, is the Bourne movie we don't really need, except perhaps as a way
Arts & Entertainment Pleasantly Cliché-Laden: <em>Star Trek Beyond</em>, Reviewed Early on in Star Trek Beyond, after a failed and ultimately comedic attempt at interstellar diplomacy, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) wearily confesses in his captain's log that his life has "started to feel.
Arts & Entertainment <em>Misfit Cabaret</em> Stars A Talented Nightclub Diva Stuck In A Screwball Variety Show You won’t find a more magnificent and talented nightclub singer belting it out on a San Francisco stage this weekend than Kat Robichaud, whose lounge revue Misfit Cabaret opened last night at
Arts & Entertainment <i>John Leguizamo: Latin History For Morons</i> Is A Funny, If Rough, Sketch Of Colonial History Veteran comedian and performer John Leguizamo is back at Berkeley Rep this summer performing a world premiere of his latest one-man show, a comical history class on Latin America titled Latin History for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Jenůfa</i> and <i>Don Carlo</i> at SF Opera The SF Opera Summer Season concludes with three productions: a steamy Carmen by provocactive director Calixto Bieito, which we won't review but you can check for yourself for free tonight (Saturday) at 7:
Arts & Entertainment <em>Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side)</em> Is A Funny Look Inside The Life Of An Accidental Techie As city officials, residents, and popular culture endlessly debate the tech sector's multifaceted impact on the Bay Area, Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side), which opened last night at PianoFight,
Arts & Entertainment Fame, Skewered: <i>Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping</i> When I saw Judd Apatow was a producer of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a mockumentary that basically got its start as a series of Lonely Island shorts on Saturday Night Live, I
Arts & Entertainment <i>For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday</i> At Berkeley Rep Is A Moving, Marvelous Surprise Playwright Sarah Ruhl has become a favorite at Berkeley Rep over the past decade, beginning with a production of her play Eurydice in 2004. That play, which imagined an Alice in Wonderland-like underworld,
Arts & Entertainment Smart People Making Stupid Decisions: <i>Maggie's Plan</i> Since paying money to see a Woody Allen movie these days is becoming harder and harder to justify, for oh so many reasons, it's nice to see there are alternatives out there if
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <i>The Nice Guys</i>, <i>Love & Friendship</i> The Nice Guys will prove once and for all that Ryan Gosling is more than just that cute guy from The Notebook. Frankly, he proved that to me a long time ago, with
Arts & Entertainment <i>The Last Five Years</i> At ACT Walks You Through A Failed Relationship, But Only Scratches The Surface I always admire an experiment on the stage, whether it falls apart before the end, or succeeds wildly, or falters a lot from the start, or succeeds just enough to keep my attention
Arts & Entertainment Thrilling And Serious: <i>Money Monster</i>, Reviewed Going into Money Monster, I had some worries. Julia Roberts' presence in a film hasn't boded well for a while now, and Jodie Foster's work directing movies has been hit or miss, (hit:
Arts & Entertainment The Anti-<i>Batman V Superman</i>: <i>Captain America: Civil War</i> Reviewed Coming out a month after the miserable bomb that was Batman V Superman has only helped to make Marvel's latest entry into the Avengers franchise look like a damn classic in comparison. Captain
