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8 Must-See Movies at Frameline Film Festival 2014
Program guides of yore. Photo: Frameline If the ubiquitous rainbow flags didn’t tip you off, it’s officially the month of the gays! And with that comes Frameline, San Francisco’s 38th annual...
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Obvious Child: Why America Is Finally Ready for the First Pro-Choice Rom Com
Photo: A24 By Aya de Leon Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre’s feature debut starring Jenny Slate, is by no means the first romantic comedy based on a drunken one-night-stand leading to an unplanned...
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6 Movies That Will Make You Proud To Be An American
Photo: Columbia Pictures Forget The Patriot and other faux Revolutionary War pastiches. If you’re looking to celebrate America this July 4th, tune into some films that make you proud to be an American,...
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Why Almost Everything You Know About Star Wars Is Now Wrong
Photo: Lucasfilm By Matthew Jent Around the year AD 50, Christian leaders met to settle a disagreement over church dogma. The council said, “Okay, you know what? New converts to Christianity — you...
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10 of the Strangest Finds on Netflix
By Robin Hardwick The way we watch movies and television has undergone a major change in recent years, thanks to Netflix. Older films not appreciated in their time get a chance at becoming cult...
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5 Essential Things I Learned At Comic-Con
Photo: Wikipedia By Kimra McPherson Comic-Con International, the annual celebration of fan culture, is under way in San Diego. From the outside, it looks like a blur of costumes, superhero news, TV and...
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What Were They Thinking: The Most Bizarre Musical Adaptations
Good news for anyone who loved the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love: the recent musical adaptation of the story of Shakespeare and his muse for Romeo and Juliet is getting rave reviews in...
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Robin Williams, Beloved Comedian and Bay Area Resident, Dead at 63
Devastating news from the Marin County Sheriff: Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and longtime Bay Area resident Robin Williams is dead at age 63. The actor, who publicly battled substance abuse...
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Lauren Bacall, Hollywood and Broadway Legend, Dead at 89
Just a day after the loss of one of the world’s funniest actors, the legendary Lauren Bacall has passed away at the age of 89 of a stroke. She burst onto the scene in 1944 with To Have and Have Not,...
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The Best of the B Movies: So Bad, They’re Good
By Maria Judnick There are three levels of mainstream Hollywood films. First are the serious films: the ones in limited release, in which that incredibly important story gets told, that famous actor...
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‘The Little Rascals’ Reunite 20 Years Later, Recreate Scenes from the Movie
Photo: 22 Vision, via Facebook Considering that almost the entire internet is nostalgia content, you’d think we would be used to the feeling now, that it would have lost the power to make us ache for...
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How Does ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ Handle the Ghost of Philip Seymour...
Photo: Welcome to District 12 By Lily Kelting Performance is supposed to be about liveness. TV is “rawest” live, sports are shown live, and theater has been selling liveness for millennia. This ethos...
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5 Old Movies That Actually Should Be Remade
By Adam Wenger Afraid of risk and happy to continuously mine the past, Hollywood has become remake happy. But rarely do the studios redo movies that actually should be remade. Another Spider-Man? No...
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Our Future, As Seen Throughout the History of Film
In a Paris Review interview published only two years before his death, author Ray Bradbury said, “Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it’s really looking at a reflection of what is...
View ArticleThe Scariest Moments You Won’t Find in a Horror Movie
By Matthew Jent I have enough nerdy tendencies of my own — comics, role-playing games, Prince’s complete discography — that, when someone asks if I like horror movies, I’m a little grateful that I can...
View Article‘Mean Girls’ Cast Reunite and Spill Secrets, 10 Years Later
You can’t sit with us. On Wednesdays, we wear pink. It’s October 3rd. 10 years after the release of Mean Girls, we’re still quoting it and watching it at least three times a year. And, in case you...
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Captain Marvel: The Surprising History of How Female Superheroes Came to Be
By Matthew Jent Marvel Studios recently announced their “phase three” line of feature films. Phases are a thing the Marvel Studios folks like to break their movies down into, roughly broken up by new...
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From Interstellar to World War Z: How Much Does Scientific Accuracy Matter?
By Matthew Jent Maybe it started with Jaws. Released in 1975, Jaws was Stephen Spielberg’s breakout feature, and it’s widely regarded as creating the summer blockbuster model. It made a lot of money,...
View ArticleIf You Loved ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’, Try This TV Series From the Same...
By Kayti Burt Even if you’re not a fan of The Hunger Games, you can probably list several items off of star Jennifer Lawrence’s filmography. But what about the franchise’s other Lawrence? We’re...
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A Definitive Ranking of Christmas Movie Animals, from Naughty to Nice
Grumpy Cat, the angriest kitty you’ve ever loved, makes her acting debut this Saturday in Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. (But why bother telling you? You’ve either had the date circled on your...
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