Movie Review: Broken City
Despite a great cast and an interesting concept, this sub-par political thriller never pulls it off.
Reggie Watts Returns for SF Sketchfest Reggidency
As Reggie Watts has grown in popularity, SF comedy fans have watched him move up from Hemlock Tavern’s small stage to multiple sold out gigs at The Independent and a gig at Outside Lands last year. He returns for his second Reggidency at SF Sketchfest, three nights of comedy with a different collaborator each night.
Picturehouse Reopens with Metallica Through The Never
Nearly five years since it was shut down in a merger, the independent film production and distribution company Picturehouse will once again open its doors with Metallica Through The Never, a docu-drama featuring the Bay Area band, as its first release.
Sex in the City Gets a Drag Queen Makeover
Sex and the City: LIVE!, a send-up of the iconic HBO series from the 90s, returns to the Mission this week with a cast of San Francisco’s most fabulous drag performers.
Movie Review: Gangster Squad
With an all-star cast and a promising premise, Gangster Squad should have been a surefire hit. Instead it’s a complete misfire.
SF Independent Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
The SF Independent Film Fest has announced the lineup for it’s 15th year and will be celebrating with a ¡Fiesta Quinceañera! running from February 7 through the 21.
Landmark Style: On The Road by Natalie Cheung
The first in a series of photo editorials from the styling students at the Academy of Art University. Each student selected a San Francisco landmark that had a personal meaning to them and reconstructed the aesthetic into a style. This week Natalie Cheung shows us On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s procedural about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is enthralling.
Fifty24SF Gallery Hosts New Works by Sam Flores
Lion and the Lamb, the current solo exhibition by artist Sam Flores at Fifty24SF Gallery, is eerily timely. In the wake of current events—violence, political upheaval, talk about the end of the world—the dichotomies of lightness and dark, and the biblical reference to the Book of Revelation that pervade Flores’s most recent body of work seem utterly prescient.
Movie Review: Promised Land
Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon re-team for a film that’s as much a character piece as it is a commentary on modern environmentalism and corporatism.
