Immersing yourself in new/old Japanese pop culture turns out to be a great way to be cool in July with Hulu.  This month, there’s a railway tunnel which grants wishes for a price, an acclaimed tale of a high school yuri relationship, and the fate of the world dependent on

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

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

Hi, we’re tentatively back!  For those who just came in, as this column tries to be a labor solidarity space, it went on voluntary hiatus in support of the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) strike to get the members of the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to

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

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

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

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