Could the Golden Age of Hollywood classic “The Wizard Of Oz” be the Rosetta Stone cinemagoers need to truly understand the films of David Lynch?  The Roxie Theater’s summer film series “You’re Not In Kansas Any More” gives interested viewers the opportunity to test this contention.  Running from June 9,

This summertime’s planning needs to include space to check out the summer quarter’s programming at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (hereafter BAMPFA).  Why not pay tribute to the man who helped shape both the Pacific Film Archive and the Telluride Film Festival?  How about enjoying the balm of

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The month of June is here, which means it’s time for the return of the S.F. Documentary Film Festival (hereafter “S.F. DocFest”).  This festival, now in its 22nd year. Is an offshoot of the well-respected San Francisco Independent Film Festival.  This year’s S.F. DocFest is a hybrid event running June

Dear Broke-Ass Reader, This writer’s digest of the upcoming month’s offerings on Netflix and Hulu has been interrupted by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike. This interruption will continue until the strike is resolved, hopefully in the WGA’s favor.   To understand why this action was taken, this nice summation

As old school “Sesame Street” announcers would have said, May’s Hulu programming is brought to you by the letter “C.”  In this case, that letter stands for concerts (Elton John, U2’s Bono & The Edge), classics (Meryl Streep as a Holocaust survivor, Robert De Niro as a Jewish gangster), cult

What, we can’t just say “the new season of Tim Robinson’s hilariously weird series ‘I Think You Should Leave’ arrives this month, that’s all you need to know about Netflix this May?”  Oh, all right.  Robinson’s off-kilter humor might not amuse everyone.  Fortunately, this month is packed with other entertaining

For those who don’t know, the San Francisco International Film Festival (or “SFFILM” for short) began back in 1957.  The 2023 edition of the festival is thus called “SFFILM 66.”  This year’s edition runs from April 13-23, 2023. Help Celebrate North America’s Oldest Continuous Film Festival Over its long history,

For those needing entertainment after March showers, Hulu in April offers some nifty book adaptations.  They include Mary Harron’s cult classic p*ss-take on “acceptable” male behavior, a floundering writer’s life-changing advice columnist experience, and a weaponizing of sexism to bring down a Mafia branch.   A couple of documentaries showing this