Movie Review: The Words
The names Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal probably don’t mean much to general moviegoers or critics for that matter and they probably won’t after their debut feature-film, The Words, arrives in movie theaters this weekend.
Movie Review: Arbitrage
The 2008 financial crisis came and went, but the Great Recession continues, if not in the statistics kept by government and academic economists, then by everyone else.
SF Film Society Reopens Filmhouse Residency Program
The San Francisco Film Society has announced it is reopening FilmHouse, a residency program which provides filmmakers access to office space for all stages of film production, access to a plethora of filmmaking tools and a collaborative work environment.
Movie Review: Lawless
The Prohibition-era thriller Lawless looks pretty but has trouble making it to the finish line.
Movie Review: Sleepwalk with Me
Mike Birbiglia’s mostly true tale of the unraveling of an eight-year relationship, his struggle with a serious sleep disorder and his attempts to make it as a comic is deeply heartfelt and bitingly hilarious.
Movie Review: Premium Rush
Premium Rush is basically a B-action film on bikes. There’s not much under its surface and that’s OK.
Movie Review: Robot & Frank
Dressed up as a science-fiction film, Robot & Frank is instead a small character study that mostly works.
Movie Review: Compliance
In 1961, Stanley Milgram, a Harvard-educated psychologist began a series of behavioral experiments to test the limits, if any, of authority.
Last-Minute Screening Announced for ‘The Master’ at Castro Theatre
A last-minute, preview screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film The Master, which was filmed in and around the Bay Area, is planned—in glorious 70mm—for August 21 at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre.
Movie Review: ParaNorman
Three years ago, name Laika meant little or nothing to most moviegoers and/or movie critics, but after Coraline (2009), the Oregon-based production company’s take on ParaNorman was highly anticipated.
Movie Review: The Campaign
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis go head to head in a political race dominated by the lowest common denominator. It provides the expected laughs but also an unexpected undertone about the big business state of contemporary American politics.
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