Peter Wong
The Best Stuff on Netflix in August 2020
If you’ve never been exposed to the weirdness of a Charlie Kaufman scripted film, Netflix this month offers the opportunity to see two of his classics. But that’s not the only interesting thing coming out on Netflix in the next couple of weeks. There’s an acclaimed recounting of a dubious
Catch The Roxie Mixtape-In-Place Festival
Hey, remember when the Roxie Theater offered people a chance to turn life under quarantine into cinema with its Mixtape-In-Place competition? As it turned out, the response was impressive. Well over 100 submissions of films lasting 3 minutes or less in various genres got submitted for the competition. Since part
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Even More Great Stuff Playing on Netflix in July
Netflix has not run out of good stuff to show in July. In the second part of this preview, you’ll hear about: a TV mini-series co-created by actress Cate Blanchett; the return of a very wonky superhero series; a deep dive with Laney College’s football team; an Academy Award-winning drama
Jackie Fielder is the Fresh Progressive Voice We Need in the State Senate
California D-11 State Senate candidate Jackie Fielder, like her incumbent opponent State Senator Scott Wiener, is out and proud. But there the similarities between the two candidates end. Fielder, at age 25, is half her opponent’s age. She also lays claim to an ethnic heritage combining President Racist-In-Chief’s twin bete
The Best Stuff on Netflix in July 2020
The sheer number of new offerings this month was just one of the reasons this preview has not come out sooner. Length problems make it necessary to also break the preview into two parts. In this first part, the picks share the common theme of revisitation. There are new takes
Comisery: The Science Fiction/Dark Comedy Web Series w/ an Asian-American Cast
How can you laugh at the craziness of life under coronavirus lockdown? How about turning such an existence into a dark science fiction comedy? That’s the approach taken by the new Chopso webseries “Comisery.” It’s accessible for free to anyone who has a Facebook account. “Comisery” is co-directed and co-written
What To Watch on Netflix in June
This June sees Netflix bringing films which dispel the notion that it’s only interested in showing movies made in the last twenty years. However, this is a mixed blessing. On one hand, you’ve got Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” and Alicia Silverstone in “Clueless,” an off-kilter adaptation of Jane
The ‘Shelter in Place’ Film Competition by ROXIE Theater!
It’s your chance to show the world how you’ve been able to convert the raw materials surrounding you in your shelter into a short original film.