This’ll be my last weekend watch post. Murder in Fashion — The Roxie “In this ripped-from-the-headlines drama, gay party regular and aging boy toy Andrew…
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Sundance Kabuki, AMC Van Ness, AMC Metreon Terry Gilliam returns to the fray with this colorful and star-studded exercise…
The Romanian director, Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), has made a cop movie. There are lots of different kinds of cop movies. Stylish French,…
I recently read a movie critic claim that other critics shouldn’t describe movies by relating them to other movies, which is what I will now…
The Book of Eli — AMC Metreon, Van Ness, Sundance Kabuki Gary Oldman? Yes. Denzel? Sure. Shotguns and rocket launchers? Oh if you insist. Mila…
I was playing ping pong with a guy the other day who said, “I mean, I watch a lot of movies, but I don’t have…
Oh lord, another week. Don’t they just seem to hurtle one after another without even a pause for refreshment? It’s really no way to measure…
Movie distributors have taken the weekend off to party. I guess that’s what happens when New Years falls on a Friday. It’s rough out there….
The Missing Person is a private eye story – no two ways about that. He wakes up to the sound of the phone ringing. Get…
Sherlock Holmes — Century Centre 9, Sundance Kabuki I never realized Sherlock Holmes was James Bond. Website. Nine — The Castro, AMC Metreon, AMC Van…
Avatar — AMC Metreon IMAX, AMC Van Ness It’s a 250 million dollar Last of the Mohicans in space. What part of that am I…
Desperately Seeking Susan, Silent Film Festival, The Wizard of Oz — Castro Theatre How’s this for a Friday/Saturday/Sunday lineup? It’s like they sandwiched nap time…
View image Up in the Air — Century Centre 9 This all came about because Jason Reitman saw the “single serving life” speech from Fight…
This will be my last movie post for a few weeks. I’m going to the UK to wander around. Wish me luck! Katie Ann will…
That’s what I did when I saw what Halloween movies were screening this weekend. Did my team of manservant lackeys miss something or are these…
Have you ever gone to the park and seen a scrappy man pressing a handful of leaves to his ear? A lost German beating himself…
Ghostbusters — The Red Vic What do you say to this harbinger of good tidings, this eight-ball vision of justice, this love poem to a…
Little known fact. There are actually more film festivals per year in San Francisco than there are days. And here’s another one. The ATA Film…
Lone Scherfig is an acclaimed Danish film director. She was a member of the Dogme95 group started by Lars von Trier that traded acting and…
When Spike Jonze comes up in conversation, girls in knee socks twinkle and shake. They go all aglow. Guys in knee socks too, for that…
Yep, you guessed it, another instructional manual for picking up high school chicks. About time, really. An Education is about a 16 year old girl…
Where The Wild Things Are — Metreon, AMC Van Ness I saw this thing a couple days ago. It’s very confusing. That’s probably the best…
We Live In Public — The Roxie This one time I set up webcams all over my house to record my entire life. Playing video…
Drew Barrymore wrote Whip It. Typically, writers work on a computer, maybe with a pen and paper. I dictate to servants while they prepare my…
The Lost Boys – The Castro It’s easy to forget about the oiled up buff guy playing saxophone in this movie. Too easy. I think…
Charlize Theron. Death. Mexicans. Adultery. Wasn’t that guy in Sex and the City? Arson. Unnecessarily naked blond women. Murder. Plane crash. Mexicans. Robin Tunney? Estranged…
Surrogates — AMC Metreon A simple parting of the hair can do wonders to soften one’s image. Website. Pandorum — AMC Van Ness, Metreon Event…
I don’t normally write movie event posts. See, I never really leave the house and neither should you. What do I need that’s outside? I’ve…
One little murder and all hell breaks loose in the mind of a middle-aged, statuesque Argentine woman. In a brief moment of absent-minded driving, Vero…
Capitalism: A Love Story — The Metreon I think Michael Moore is the worst thing to happen to cinema since Film Studies. In bitter rebuke…
What’s going on here? Is it Burning Man? Is that why we’ve got an animated apocalyptic movie about sensitive sock puppets, a shorts festival where…
There are a couple countries, which I more or less picked at random, that I try to keep tabs on movie-wise. Turkey is one of…
High school is always a tough ride. It’s full of early mornings, challenging tests, homework, bus rides. Then of course there’s bad cafeteria food, college…
There’s so much going on in the Baader Meinhof Complex it could fill a book. In fact, it was a book. This book. So here’s…
I walked into the Four Seasons like I always do, strapped. Strapped with questions to unleash on the surprisingly reserved and quiet Mike Judge about…
Taking Woodstock — AMC Metreon, Sundance Kabuki Ang Lee directed this so I figure it’s about bi-curious hippies. Bi-curiosity is great because it makes it…
This is an actual conversation I had about 2 months ago: How’d your meeting with the boss go? It went kind of like this: “You…
Hirokazu Kore-eda is an established Japanese director. I first saw Nobody Knows on recommendation from a professor in college who said, “You haven’t seen Nobody…
I saw this months ago at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It’s no longer fresh in my mind, but sometimes it’s better to let…
World’s Greatest Dad is a confusingly titled movie. It’s meant both ironically and seriously, which makes it doubly ironic or ironically squared, if my math…
