Ghost stories are just as much a part of winter celebrations as online website visits to buy holiday presents.  This year’s Another Hole In The Head (hereafter AHITH) marks the 20th such run up to Christmas (December 1-25) with another batch of ghost stories, horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime drama,

Want to groove to the music of Little Richard and Jon Batiste?  How about pumping your fist in the air as the predecessors of Brandi Chastain and Megan Rapinoe score goals?  Or why not get your mind blown by the art of Germany’s greatest living contemporary artist?  All these experiences

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

Who says the joy of shouting “Soylent Green is people” moments before Charlton Heston opens his mouth is a lost theater-going pleasure?  Thanks to the folks at this year’s Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film SF”), the Charlton Heston-starring science fiction tale set in the awful overpopulated

Fall brings the return of one of the S.F. Bay Area’s biggest and best film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”).  Now in its 46th edition, MVFF runs theatrically from October 5-15, 2023 and streams online from October 16-22, 2023.  The festival will show 148 films from 41

Director Martin Scorsese has helmed such gangster films as “Goodfellas,” “The Departed,” and “The Irishman.”  But just because he’s done films about organized crime does not mean he deserves to be known only as a director of gangster films.  If the upcoming adaptation of “Killers Of The Flower Moon” does

One of the big programming items on the Fall schedule of the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter “BAMPFA”) happens to be the “Mill Valley Film Festival At BAMPFA (October 7-15, 2023)” section.  It’s a godsend for those who are intrigued by the offerings of the 46th Mill Valley

Before “Angel”… before “Buffy The Vampire Slayer (both versions)”…there was “Tokyo Pop.”  Long before Fran Rubel Kuzui played a major role in bringing those cult fantasy touchstones to life, she directed this pop romance set in economic bubble-era Tokyo.  However, for years, interested viewers could not see “Tokyo Pop” in

Openly anti-Semitic comments and efforts by radical right-wingers to use the law to control women’s bodies may be the types of political developments that undercut belief in humanity’s capability for evolving towards the future of “Star Trek”’s Federation.  Fortunately, the 43rd edition of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival (hereafter “SFJFF”)