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San Francisco in Canada San Francisco in Canada
Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.
A number of movies with ties to the Bay Area are playing at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (September 4-13), in search of... More>>
By Meredith Brody
Published: September 03, 2008
In the Heat of the Knight
Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south.
And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 03, 2008
Art House
Brava Theater Center. Postcards from Leningrad: A screening of the 2007 film followed by a Q&A with director Mariana Rondón and producer... More>>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: September 03, 2008
Spy vs. Why Spy vs. Why
Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads ...... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 27, 2008
No Regret
No Regret begins as a perceptive glimpse into a specific gay subculture, then descends halfway through into Korean melodrama hell; put both parts... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 27, 2008
Year of the Fish
Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make. A modern-day fairy tale unwisely told from the... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 27, 2008
Art House
Castro Theatre. The Little Mermaid singalong: An interactive presentation of the Disney feature, with prizes for costumes. Thursdays, Fridays.... More>>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: August 27, 2008
Not to Be Not to Be
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense. Those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes: It's hard to knock... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
Schoolhouse Rock Schoolhouse Rock
Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.
The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf ever since. Which isn't to suggest that it's... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
Hats Off
You may not know Mimi Weddell's name, but you probably know her face: As Jyll Johnstone's documentary shows, the pool of agile 93-year-old women... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 20, 2008
Art House
Artists' Television Access. Bijou and Bayside: Wakefield Poole's hardcore male erotic classics from the 1970s. Wed., Aug. 20, 8 p.m. Shutdown:... More>>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: August 20, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites Mighty Aphrodites
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest.
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 13, 2008
The Young Man's Dream
Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.
The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was preparing the release of Match Point (2005),... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 13, 2008
The Actress Who Came in from the Cold The Actress Who Came in from the Cold
Melissa Leo finally gets her close-up.
Those of us who write about movies tend to play things cool, but we're all fans at heart, complete with running tallies of those actors and... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 13, 2008
Hard-Knock Life Hard-Knock Life
Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom.
When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 13, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever Apocalypse Whatever
Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 13, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 13, 2008
About a Boy About a Boy
What happens when a child murderer grows up?
"So fuckin' delicate, people ... they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply... More>>
By Ernest Hardy
Published: August 06, 2008
Murder, in Shades of Gray
Britain's infamous James Bulger case comes back, with nuance, in Boy A.
Where can Batman and Boy A possibly converge? At the intersection of Michael Caine. The actor may be the hardest-working compulsive in show... More>>
By John Anderson
Published: August 06, 2008
True Bromance True Bromance
Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express.
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 06, 2008
Not Quite Ripe Not Quite Ripe
Send it back: Bottle Shock is corked.
Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 06, 2008
Towering Cinema Towering Cinema
Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies.
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 06, 2008
To the Limit
As Pepe Danquart's cheerfully lunatic To the Limit begins, a camera takes in the majestic expanse of Yosemite National Park, gently gliding not... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 06, 2008
Art House
Castro Theatre. The Exiles: See Ongoing listings. Through Aug. 7. Freaky Fantasy Films ... From the '80s: Triple feature: Return to Oz,... More>>
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 06, 2008
Young-Adult Fiction Young-Adult Fiction
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen.
Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 30, 2008
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