Weekend Watch: Pouty Lips And Bad Boy Attitude

Barney’s Version – Embarcadero, Kabuki Paul Giamatti, one of my faves, with Dustin Hoffman, another of my faves! There’s more good cast, like Bruce Greenwood,…

Weekend Watch: A Bunch Of Annoying Crap Like Green Hornet, Somewhere

On the Bowery – Roxie A fictional documentary about the early days of New York’s Bowery with a bunch of salty guys. German Gems Film…

Weekend Watch: ImaginationLand!

The Strange Case of Angelica – Roxie This is a Spanish film, so of course there’s the famous “magical-ness” that will have people making fun/loving…

Weekend Watch: Your Local Holiday Selections

Boxing Gym – Roxie A documentary about world famous “Lord’s Gym” in Austin, Texas. Tron: Legacy – Castro Continues. Sita Sings the Blues – Red…

Weekend Watch: Decent Movies To Go See, Like In The Old Days!

The Fighter – Everywhere Christian Bale looks serious and stuff, unless he cracks a smile to be snarky, paired with Mark Wahlberg (shirtless) about some…

Weekend Watch: Angelina’s Sideglances, Johnny’s Filled In Cheeks

The Tempest – Century 9 Julie Taymor directs another Shakespeare adaptation. You’re in for some fun. Drunk + Alone – Roxie (Sunday afternoon) I know…

Weekend Watch: Dark Movies For A Bleak Weekend

The Temptation of St. Tony – Roxie (Friday) An Estonian film about factory layoffs that turns increasingly dark. In Estonian. Black Swan – Metreon, Kabuki…

Weekend Watch: Wear You Eating Pants To The Movies

The rest of this week is the only week accepted by quality-of-life critics as one in which we can roll to the cineplex in our…

Jukeboxin’: Happy Birthday, And Rest in Peace

Today marks the 121st anniversary of the jukebox, the first one of which was fired up at the SF’s Palais Royale Saloon on this day…

Weekend Watch: If The Pastries Were At Inception I Might Consider It

Grease Sing-A-Long – Castro (till 11/23) I never understood this movie, doesn’t it just seem that Sandra Dee is just changing for a guy to…

Weekend Watch: Fancy Animation! Robots! Arm Pit Hair Mustaches!

“DOMO ARRiGATO, MR. ROBOTO!” Five Film Fest! – Castro, Saturday Midnight for Maniacs presents us five favorite robot flicks – Westworld (with Yul Brenner!!), The…

Weekend Watch: Comedy! Action! SciFi! Horror!

Fair Game – Embarcadero, Kabuki Doug Liman directs a real life spy/political drama with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as a married couple, and one…

Weekend Watch: “Everybody relax! I’m here.”*

Poltergeist – Castro, Saturday I recently re-watched Poltergeist, and I can’t believe it’s from 1982! It’s really good, despite the sorta cheesy parts (like the…

Weekend Watch: Lots Of Fests

Berlin & Beyond Film Festival – Castro Oh, those Germans! Opens tonight, runs to the 28th. Doc Fest – Roxie Is still running from last…

Weekend Watch: Bad Moon Rising

Weekend Watch: Suicide Attempts Are “Kind of” Funny?

Jack Goes Boating – Opera Plaza, Four Star Philip Seymour-Hoffman directs this adaptation of a play he’s in a lot about two NY couples in…

A Shrug Your Shoulders Kind Of Movie: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Woody Allen’s films don’t really need criticism. At this point in his career and your life, you know if you’re going to see his new…

Weekend Watch: Too Much Going On For Movies, But, Hey, I’m Not Gonna Judge

The Sound of Music – Castro The hills are alive with the Sound of Musssssiiiiiccc. Belt it out now because this is not the sing-a-long…

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Free Love

This is what SF is all about. Free peeing in the bushes and free people watching. Love of music, love of people watching, love of…

Weekend Watch: Money Sleeps

SF Irish Film Festival – The Roxie Pasties and bloaties unite to showcase the newest and most modern of Irish cinema. On Friday, you can…

Weekend Watch: European & Latin Love

Back to the Future / Zapped – Castro Theatre Midnite for Maniacs this week features Back to the Future, celebrating it’s 25th year of voice…

Weekend Watch: Bearded Clam in Da House!

A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop – Embarcadero A black comedy thriller that is apparently Coen-Brother-ish, set in Western China. If that woman…

Weekend Watch: Good Picks For The Long Haul

Weekend Watch: French Flicks & Oldies

Not Necessarily Noir – The Roxie Friday night has Brian De Palma’s obsession with Hitchcock with Obsession, and the great Jonathan Demme’s Last Embrace. Saturday…

Weekend Watch: Don’t Freeze Outside, Go To A Movie!

The Complete Metropolis – Castro A 147-minute version of Fritz Lang’s famous sci-fi classic. Alamar – Roxie A father and son go off to fish…

Weekend Watch: Michael Keaton – I repeat. MICHAEL KEATON!

The Other Guys – Everywhere Michael Keaton is the only man who elevates chewing gum to an ART. Oh, and written/directed by god Adam MacKay,…

Weekend Watch: Mostly Old Good, A Few New Good

Midnite for Maniacs – The Castro (Saturday) Saturday starts off with Stallone’s Nighthawks, then Van Damme-hotness in Bloodsport, then a brand new print of Big…

Weekend Watch: Nothing To Get Up Early For

Breathless – Embarcadero This 50th Anniversary restored screening of Godard’s classic will be swarming with Ok Cupid first dates. Agora – Clay I screened this…

Weekend Watch: I’m Creating A New Cocktail – The Summer Flick Fizzle

Inception – Everywhere All around the world women will fail to get laid as men will be shootin’ loads all over the theatre floor just…

Weekend Watch: Quirky Fun At The Cineplex!

Grown ups – Everywhere90’s nostalgia up our nostrils again! This time it’s our favorite TV comedians led by a good Adam Sandler director. They all…

Weekend Watch: Heavy Realism

Frameline 34: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival – The RoxieThis weekend’s films includes a couple of Andy Warhol’s: Hustlers & Exhibitionists, Sex, Leather, Jackets…

Weekend Watch: Ethnic Variety!

United Film Festival – The Roxie San Francisco United is presenting cool movies such as Big Trouble in Little China (Friday, midnight, free), The Fly…

Ondine: Graying Long Man Hair Has Never Looked So Good

Colin Farrell stars as Syracuse, a recovering alcoholic, down and out, mellow fisherman who catches a hot girl in his net. She says her name…

Weekend Watch: My Stepsister Would Be So Stoked!

I Still Wake Up Dreaming: Noir Redux – The RoxieExtended by popular demand, fun old black and white movies with femmes, guns, and men who…

Weekend Watch: Horses in Sarongs!

Sex and the City 2 – Everywhere As a critic, I will not say anything about this movie directly. But you know in Unbreakable, when…

Weekend Watch: Hip, Crazed, Flannel, Women

The Crazies – Red Vic Timothy Olyphant fights crazy people in a small town. Dirty Hands – The Roxie I once lived with a hipster,…

Weekend Watch: Pleasantries

Iron Man 2 – Castro Well, at least you’ll see it at an independent theater. Don’t go, it’s really really bad. OSS 117: Lost in…

Stoic Talk, Surprised Looks: Robin Hood

I tried inviting people to this screening, with the plan that we’d make fun of it. The audience seemed to have the same agenda, and…

Jukeboxin’: Shotwell’s Revisited

After taking an angry, exasperated, fun, healthy sabbatical from Jukeboxin’, weekly drinking, et.al., I didn’t bat my eye at Shotwell’s juke Wednesday night, although I…

Weekend Watch: If You Don’t Want To Watch Mickey Rourke Cut Out A Hole In His Villian Outfit

Touching Home – Lumiere A touching movie based on a touching novel with Ed Harris (of course.), Robert Forster (!!!) and Brad Dourif (!!!!), in…