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

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

For seekers of more intentional entertainment on Netflix, this month has a trio of promising women in politics dramas, one of which stars Keri Russell in the lead role.  A new season of science fiction actioner “Sweet Tooth” makes a long-awaited return.  And because foiling Nazis (or their modern day

Apologies are definitely in order for those readers who wanted earlier notice of what’s coming up this quarter at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (hereafter BAMPFA).  For those who wanted to see the Andy Warhol rarity “My Hustler,” for example, they’ll just need to hope for another

Hulu’s March 300-pound gorilla event is of course this year’s Academy Awards ceremony and the associated programs bracketing that event.  Frankly, this writer would love Michelle Yeoh to win the Best Actress Award for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” if only to give racist Hollywood casting directors a public middle

Netflix starts off March with the first (and best) of “The Hangover” movies and the immortal “National Lampoon’s Animal House.”  The latter film does sag a bit during the road trip sequence, but it’s hard not to laugh at the film’s food fight scene or the immortal line “I think

This February on Hulu will be a month to say several goodbyes.  The Millionaires will get ready to start saying goodbye to a close-knit group of friends.  The WB Studios water tower residents will hopefully end their return with a bang.  And John Singleton’s semi-fictionalization of the 1980s Los Angeles

February is among other things Black History Month, and there are some cool things offered this month that celebrate Black excellence on Netflix.  There’s a portrait of the basketball legend who was also a human rights leader.  Jada Pinkett-Smith narrates a hybrid documentary series about a kickass 17th century African