Interesting Netflix offerings this May are highlighted by the first part of the new season of “Bridgerton.” Period romance fans, though, might be thrown off by the third season’s deviation from its source material.  A mini-series adaptation of a best-selling Tom Wolfe novel might fill a little hole for those

Call this May on Hulu a “something for everyone” month.  There’s a heartwarming nature documentary, an action film classic and its sequels, an acclaimed historical epic, a weird trip through American subcultures, and a strange but true documentary about a jaw dropping Japanese reality TV show.  You might not want

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

There are fewer theatrical venues available.  Returning to the in-theater experience still proves a hard lift for way too many viewers.  And the 800-pound gorilla known in film festival circles as the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter “SFFILM”) has radically downsized in scale and scope this year. Should this

This April’s premieres on Netflix have some worthy offerings even if it won’t necessarily take viewers’ minds off the trash fire nature of current events.  There’s an animated update of a classic Norman Lear comedy.  The “Train To Busan” director adapts a science fiction body horror manga.  A spinoff series

Hulu’s April programming offers nods to “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.”  The sex part comes in movies which have a Catholic high school girl discovering the self-pleasuring capabilities of a cell phone or an American journalist doing sex work while stuck in a hostile country.   The drugs part

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

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

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