Peter Wong

01 Mar 2024

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Hulu In March 2024

This March on Hulu can be called “embarrassment of riches” month.  Loved “Poor Things” and/or “The Zone Of Interest?”  See acclaimed earlier films by the directors of these current hits.  Missed the Casey Affleck drama that screened as part of this year’s Noise Pop Film Festival?  It’s screening again from

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29 Feb 2024

The Amazing International Films at BAMPFA This Spring

Tom Lehrer famously sang “Spring is here, A-suh-puh-ring is here, life is skittles and life is beer.”  But whereas poisoning pigeons in the park helped Lehrer make the season complete, there are far less lethal ways cinephiles can celebrate the Spring season at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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28 Feb 2024

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In March 2024

Who’d have thought some of the more intriguing items on Netflix this March would involve a Korean fried chicken nugget, Millie Bobby Brown wearing a figurative dragonslayer hat, or Barack Obama’s and Hilary Clinton’s spiritual predecessor in the presidential horse race? But being willing to be surprised by what’s unexpectedly

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07 Feb 2024

The 2024 San Francisco Independent Film Festival is Here!

The San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) is back with its 26th edition. Running from February 8-18, 2024 principally at the Roxie Theater and online, this year’s edition features 55 short films and 35 feature films from 15 countries. SF IndieFest offerings may not be the cinematic version

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02 Feb 2024

The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix in February 2024

It’s February, so of course films about romance are notably present among this month’s Netflix offerings.  But that fact doesn’t mean a few curves can’t be thrown.  Try a series from Taiwan about an Asian family trying to have frank conversations about sex.  Or how about a Thai series set

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31 Jan 2024

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Hulu In February 2024

February on Hulu does the Black History Month celebrations with some great stuff. There’s a classic of African American cinema, a docudrama on the parallel lives of two Civil Rights icons, and a documentary going beyond “Hidden Figures” to trace Black involvement in the American space program against the backdrop

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17 Jan 2024

How to See Sundance and Slamdance Festival Movies While Being Broke

Do you visibly blanch or freak out at the thought of paying as much as $30 for an ordinary movie screening ticket? Then attending the in-person version of the 2024 festivals (Sundance from January 18 to 28, Slamdance from January 19 to 28) might be financially out of reach, especially

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03 Jan 2024

The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In January 2024

Netflix may begin the new year with Jason Momoa’s first Aquaman movie, the first three John Wick movies, and both “Mamma Mia” movies. But the more interesting titles this month aren’t Hollywood blockbusters. We’re talking about a tale of sibling artistic competition in the British rap world, which features some

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