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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) — the oldest festival of its kind, now in its 35th year — opens today at the Castro…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
True Story – Everywhere In 2001, Michael Finkel, a journalist with the New York Times, was fired for partially fabricating a story about brutal working…
The Longest Ride – Everywhere The Longest Ride has to be the one you take on the way to the theater to see this latest…
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…
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…
The Gunman – Everywhere The Gunman is a ridiculous movie from the director of another ridiculous movie, Taken. But where Taken was ridiculous and fun,…
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….
Focus – Everywhere Remember when Will Smith movies would always open on Fourth of July weekend? Those days seem to be gone, and Mr. Smith…
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…
Kingsman: The Secret Service – Everywhere I gotta admit, when I first saw the above trailer, I nearly had a spontaneous orgasm. Nope! Not talking…
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…
Jupiter Ascending – Everywhere I had the same reaction the first time I saw the trailer to Jupiter Ascending as I did when I first…
Project Almanac – Everywhere Could someone please build an actual time machine and go back to 1999 and somehow make it so that The Blair…
Mortdecai – Everywhere Basically, the rule for picking what movie to see this weekend is, if it stars or was created by someone whose name…
A Most Violent Year – Embarcadero The titular year in question is 1981, and for the city of New York, it was the most violent…
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…
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…
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…
Big Eyes – Everywhere Tim Burton tells the story behind those big eyed paintings that at one time were a thrift store and garage sale…