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 Reviews: <i>A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder</i> New this week via the Broadway tour producers SHNSF is the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best New Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. It's a thoroughly English, darkly comic, and
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 Reviews: <i>If/Then</i> Starring Idina Menzel And Anthony Rapp Sometimes there's a show, or a movie, that is so original in its form and passionate in its execution that one forgives its fundamental flaws. Such is the case with If/Then, 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 Reviews: <i>Pirates of Penzance</i> At Berkeley Rep Strict traditionalist fans of Gilbert and Sullivan how many of you are there, really? are probably going to be put off by The Hypocrites' new production of Pirates of Penzance, which has arrived
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Ah, Wilderness</i> at A.C.T. Heading in for what was to be two and a half hours of Eugene O'Neill last night at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater, I was bracing for some arduous and heavy early
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra' at The Hypnodrome The Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra (playing through Nov. 21 at The Hypnodrome) concludes with an exhilarating, terrifying three-minute musical sequence that messes with your depth perception, makes great use of
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 Reviews: <i>Sweeney Todd</i> At SF Opera My esteemed colleague Cedric recently suggested that SF Opera's recent staging of a production detailing "the evil scheming of a morally corrupt upper class against the noble instincts and the steady moral compass
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>San Francisco 2.0</i> on HBO I think most of us can agree that when we heard that Nancy Pelosi's documentary filmmaker daughter had made a film about SF's "digital gold rush" and current growing pains, we could only
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 Reviews: <i>Amélie, A New Musical</i> at Berkeley Rep I knew going into the new musical version of one of my favorite films, Amélie, that I was going to struggle with the adaptation. Could it work? Was it necessary? Would I miss
