Castro Theatre Hosting 20th Anniversary Celebration Of ‘Toy Story’
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Castro Theatre Hosting 20th Anniversary Celebration Of ‘Toy Story’

San Francisco’s Castro Theatre will host a 20th anniversary celebration of Pixar’s “Toy Story” Monday, San Francisco Film Society officials said. The celebration will take…

Weekend Watch: Rock the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
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Weekend Watch: Rock the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

The Last Witch Hunter Vin Diesel is a huge nerd who plays Dungeons and Dragons and that’s really, sincerely great, and this movie (where Diesel…

Weekend Watch: Pan, The Final Girls, And He Named Me Malala
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Weekend Watch: Pan, The Final Girls, And He Named Me Malala

Pan The Peter Pan mythos is the latest to take the prequel/reboot with a kid Peter Pan being drawn to Neverland, while teaming with a…

Weekend Watch: The Martian, The Walk, And Hell And Back
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Weekend Watch: The Martian, The Walk, And Hell And Back

The Martian Matt Damon sciences the shit out of Mars, in what can be described as Apollo 11 meets Castaway, replete with a good looking…

Weekend Watch: The Intern, The Green Inferno, and Sicario
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Weekend Watch: The Intern, The Green Inferno, and Sicario

The Intern Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway star in this light lifestyle movie that largely just seems to want to assert that baby boomers still…

Weekend Watch: The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass, And Everest
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Weekend Watch: The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass, And Everest

The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Poor Maze Runner, the young adult labyrinth foot race franchise that couldn’t quite catch fire like another certain famished…

Weekend Watch: The Perfect Guy, The Visit, Rosenwald
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Weekend Watch: The Perfect Guy, The Visit, Rosenwald

The Perfect Guy Thriller about a professional woman who, upon breaking up with her boyfriend, gets together with a seemingly perfect guy. And as movies…

Weekend Watch: The Transporter: Refueled, A Walk In The Woods, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
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Weekend Watch: The Transporter: Refueled, A Walk In The Woods, Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine

The Transporter: Refueled This reboot of the franchise originally helmed by Jason Statham looks incredibly unnecessary, and more importantly, incredibly European. Ed Skrein is the…

Weekend Watch: We Are Your Friends, No Escape, War Room
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Weekend Watch: We Are Your Friends, No Escape, War Room

No Escape Released on Wednesday, Owen Wilson moves his family (wife played by Lake Bell) to Southeast Asia only to land in the middle of…

Weekend Watch: American Ultra: Hitman Agent 47, and Sinister 2
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Weekend Watch: American Ultra: Hitman Agent 47, and Sinister 2

American Ultra Under all the trapping of the Bourne series of secret sleeper agents and government intrigue was really the story of a small town…

Weekend Watch: Straight Outta Compton, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., People, Places, Things, And Fort Funston
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Weekend Watch: Straight Outta Compton, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., People, Places, Things, And Fort Funston

Straight Outta Compton At this point, Straight Outta Compton won’t be know as the biopic of the rise and fall of the world’s most dangerous…

Weekend Watch: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Vacation
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Weekend Watch: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Vacation

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Tom Cruise grapples a plane and other assorted, boisterous stunts in the fifth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Jeremy Renner,…

Weekend Watch: Pixels, Paper Towns, Southpaw, and The Vatican Tapes
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Weekend Watch: Pixels, Paper Towns, Southpaw, and The Vatican Tapes

Pixels Pixels assaults your eyeholes with a bunch of “hey remember this, the 80’s were so cool, we get it, we remember” imagery. It’s a…

SF Jewish Film Festival Starts Thursday
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SF Jewish Film Festival Starts Thursday

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) — the oldest festival of its kind, now in its 35th year — opens today at the Castro…

Weekend Watch: Trainwreck, Ant-Man, Mr. Holmes
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Weekend Watch: Trainwreck, Ant-Man, Mr. Holmes

Trainwreck Breakout sensation (and target of shade think pieces from people who haven’t even seen her work) Amy Schumer not only stars in but wrote…

Weekend Watch: The Gallows, Minions, Self/Less, and Amy
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Weekend Watch: The Gallows, Minions, Self/Less, and Amy

The Gallows The marketing campaign for horror movie The Gallows consists of trying to position its killer, Charlie Grimille (and his weapon of choice, a…

Weekend Watch: Ted 2, Max, and Magic! Mike! X! X! L!
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Weekend Watch: Ted 2, Max, and Magic! Mike! X! X! L!

Ted 2 Ted 2 is so committed to the bit of wanting to recognize the personhood of its titular teddy bear that they’ve posted a…

Weekend Watch: Inside Out, Dope, Eden, and The Wolfpack
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Weekend Watch: Inside Out, Dope, Eden, and The Wolfpack

Inside Out Those humanity nerds at Disney Pixar are at it again. And this time they’re here to make you weep openly at the happiness…

Feel-Good Documentary Captures Behind-the-Scenes Story of Batkid

The transformation of San Francisco into Gotham City in an effort to grant a young cancer patient’s wish to become his hero, Batman, began modestly…

SFIFF: Paul Schrader, Romeo Is Bleeding, Results, And More Mid-Week Picks
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SFIFF: Paul Schrader, Romeo Is Bleeding, Results, And More Mid-Week Picks

The San Francisco International Film Festival is well underway, and everything I’ve seen thus far has been pretty good. A highlight has to be David…

SFIFF Weekend Picks: Apfel, Rubell, Bacon, Brando, Del Toro, Rossellini, Gere
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SFIFF Weekend Picks: Apfel, Rubell, Bacon, Brando, Del Toro, Rossellini, Gere

The 58th San Francisco International Film Festival officially started last night and runs through May 7th. There are more movies than you could ever hope…

Weekend Watch: The Age of Adaline, The Water Diviner, Blackbird, Little Boy
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Weekend Watch: The Age of Adaline, The Water Diviner, Blackbird, Little Boy

The Age of Adaline – Everywhere Blake Lively stars as a Adaline, a woman cursed to look like 29-year-old Blake Lively for all of eternity….

Weekend Watch : True Story, Unfriended, Ex Machina, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Monkey Kingdom
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Weekend Watch : True Story, Unfriended, Ex Machina, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Monkey Kingdom

True Story – Everywhere In 2001, Michael Finkel, a journalist with the New York Times, was fired for partially fabricating a story about brutal working…

Weekend Watch: The Longest Ride, Cut Bank, Kill Me Three Times, Lambert & Stamp, The Man From Reno
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Weekend Watch: The Longest Ride, Cut Bank, Kill Me Three Times, Lambert & Stamp, The Man From Reno

The Longest Ride – Everywhere The Longest Ride has to be the one you take on the way to the theater to see this latest…

Weekend Watch: Furious 7, Woman In Gold, While We’re Young, Effie Gray, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
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Weekend Watch: Furious 7, Woman In Gold, While We’re Young, Effie Gray, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

Furious 7 – Everywhere I have seen every movie in this franchise. Do not judge me. They’re fun, dumb, and exciting, and after I’ve seen…

Weekend Watch: Get Hard, Home, Danny Collins, Serena
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Weekend Watch: Get Hard, Home, Danny Collins, Serena

Get Hard – Everywhere If you haven’t already been bombarded with trailers and ads for this Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart comedy, well, I envy…

Weekend Watch: The Gunman, Insurgent, It Follows
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Weekend Watch: The Gunman, Insurgent, It Follows

The Gunman – Everywhere The Gunman is a ridiculous movie from the director of another ridiculous movie, Taken. But where Taken was ridiculous and fun,…

Weekend Watch: Cinderella, Run All Night, CAAMFest, The Cult Of JT Leroy
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Weekend Watch: Cinderella, Run All Night, CAAMFest, The Cult Of JT Leroy

Cinderella – Everywhere If you’re looking for a modernization or feminist updating of Cinderella, ala last year’s Maleficent, look elsewhere. This is certainly not that….

Weekend Watch: Focus, The Lazarus Effect, Maps To The Stars
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Weekend Watch: Focus, The Lazarus Effect, Maps To The Stars

Focus – Everywhere Remember when Will Smith movies would always open on Fourth of July weekend? Those days seem to be gone, and Mr. Smith…

Weekend Watch: Hot Tub Time Machine 2, The DUFF, McFarland USA, What We Do In The Shadows
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Weekend Watch: Hot Tub Time Machine 2, The DUFF, McFarland USA, What We Do In The Shadows

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 – Everywhere Seriously, what was John Cusack so busy with that he couldn’t sign on to Hot Tub Time Machine…

Weekend Watch: The Kingsman: The Secret Service, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Mostly British Film Festival
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Weekend Watch: The Kingsman: The Secret Service, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Mostly British Film Festival

Kingsman: The Secret Service – Everywhere I gotta admit, when I first saw the above trailer, I nearly had a spontaneous orgasm. Nope! Not talking…

Suckers For Punishment: Fifty Shades of Grey
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Suckers For Punishment: Fifty Shades of Grey

Let’s be honest. It doesn’t matter what any critic has to say about Fifty Shades of Grey, women are going to flock to it. It’s…

Weekend Watch: Jupiter Ascending, Seventh Son, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, SF Indiefest
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Weekend Watch: Jupiter Ascending, Seventh Son, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, SF Indiefest

Jupiter Ascending – Everywhere I had the same reaction the first time I saw the trailer to Jupiter Ascending as I did when I first…

Weekend Watch: Project Almanac, Black Or White, The Loft, Berlin & Beyond Fest
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Weekend Watch: Project Almanac, Black Or White, The Loft, Berlin & Beyond Fest

Project Almanac – Everywhere Could someone please build an actual time machine and go back to 1999 and somehow make it so that The Blair…

Weekend Watch: Mortdecai, The Boy Next Door, Cake, Strange Magic, Killers, Song One, Match, The Humbling
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Weekend Watch: Mortdecai, The Boy Next Door, Cake, Strange Magic, Killers, Song One, Match, The Humbling

Mortdecai – Everywhere Basically, the rule for picking what movie to see this weekend is, if it stars or was created by someone whose name…

Weekend Watch: A Most Violent Year, American Sniper, Still Alice, Paddington, The Wedding Ringer, Noir Fest
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Weekend Watch: A Most Violent Year, American Sniper, Still Alice, Paddington, The Wedding Ringer, Noir Fest

A Most Violent Year – Embarcadero The titular year in question is 1981, and for the city of New York, it was the most violent…

Print The Legend: American Sniper
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Print The Legend: American Sniper

There’s a famous quote in the classic Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, in which a reporter says, “When the legend becomes fact, print…

As Close As You Can Get To Watching A Movie Stoned Without Actually Getting Stoned: Inherent Vice
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As Close As You Can Get To Watching A Movie Stoned Without Actually Getting Stoned: Inherent Vice

Paul Thomas Anderson won me over with his first four movies, (Hard Eight; Boogie Nights; Magnolia; Punch Drunk Love), so much so that I’ve been…

Weekend Watch: Inherent Vice, Taken 3, Selma, Preservation, Predestination
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Weekend Watch: Inherent Vice, Taken 3, Selma, Preservation, Predestination

Inherent Vice – Everywhere Director Paul Thomas Anderson returns with an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s hippie detective novel Inherent Vice. Just give Joaquin Phoenix the…

Weekend Watch: Big Eyes, Into The Woods, Unbroken, The Gambler
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Weekend Watch: Big Eyes, Into The Woods, Unbroken, The Gambler

Big Eyes – Everywhere Tim Burton tells the story behind those big eyed paintings that at one time were a thrift store and garage sale…