Hulu has viewers’ backs this June when it comes to celebrating Pride Month.  The LGBTQ+-themed programs this month range from the UK’s first gay dating reality show to Hilary Swank’s unforgettable turn as the transgendered male Brandon Teena.  And for those who loved Jinkx Monsoon’s recent turn on “Doctor Who”

The documentaries featured in the 23rd edition of the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (hereafter “SF DocFest”) have subjects that go beyond the typical cable or broadcast television subjects of nature, history, or food and their “just the facts (or ideas), ma’am” approach.  The best of them tickle a viewer’s

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It’s Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024.  This also means it’s time for the 2024 edition of the annual Center for Asian-American Media Film Festival (hereafter “CAAMFest”).  Running from May 9-19, 2024, CAAMFest will screen films at the SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theatre, the Great Star Theater, the Roxie Theatre,

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

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