Miranda got away with her devilish persona because there was a method to her mania. It takes exactly zero talent to be a dick, and I do not respect unwarranted authority. By Week Four with Ħażin totali, my respect for Massimo was almost gone. I’d heard him berate contractors, clients,

Irving’s Penn’s level of craft and decades-long career make for a must-see show at de Young.

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

Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission will play all nine movies in The Skywalker Saga in one epic marathon at its San Francisco New Mission theater in honor of the 25th anniversary of THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Calling all art lovers! Over 100 artists from around the world are coming to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center (FMC) to take over Fort Mason’s 50,000 square feet of pavilion space from March 21st to the 24th. Superfine Art Fair, in partnership with ArtSpan and Art Battle, will be transformed

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