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SF’s 25th IndieFest Kicks Off with Weird and Wonderful Films
Time to pop champagne corks and light up humongous spliffs, San Francisco! The San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) returns with its 25th festival of weird, odd, and wonderful films for S.F. filmgoers’ delectation. From February 2-12, 2023, 95 independent short and feature films from around the Bay → Read More
You Can Watch the Slamdance Film Festival From Your Own Couch
For those who haven’t decamped for Park City to check out the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival, you don’t need to panic and shell out $250 for an All Access Pass. This annual festival by filmmakers for filmmakers has a virtual component running from January 23-29, 2023. From the comfort of → Read More
All The Great Stuff Coming To Hulu In December 2022
December is here, and that means it’s time to celebrate the winter holiday season in your own individual way. Some people plan for parties with friends. Others coo over the adoptable kittens and puppies from the SPCA displayed in Macy’s store windows. And still others will take up the advice → Read More
The 47th American Indian Film Festival is Coming to San Francisco
Reservation Dogs obviously does not present the only visual story that can be told about Native American life. But the trick for interested viewers is finding those cinematic stories. Fortunately for those readers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, the American Indian Film Festival (hereafter “AIFF”) is back to → Read More
The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In November 2022
November on Netflix may make viewers feel that the holidays have come early. This month, viewers can take in the returns of Milly Bobby Brown playing Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister and Cuphead and Mugman’s semi-retro animation thrills. There’s the new thriller from the creators of “Dark” and a workplace comedy → Read More
The United Nations Association Film Festival Turns 25!
Now that the Mill Valley Film Festival has finished celebrating its 45th edition, it’s time for another San Francisco Bay Area film festival to celebrate its reaching a milestone. This particular festival happens to be one of the U.S.’ oldest documentary-only film festivals, and this year it celebrates turning 25. → Read More
Mill Valley Film Festival Turns 45!
Readers may have missed seeing the 45th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”) opening with “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” However, fall’s biggest and oldest film festival still runs through to October 16, 2022 at such core venues as the Smith Rafael Film Center, the CineArts → Read More
S.F. Indie Fest Takes Over The Roxie Theater
This October sees the coming of the U.N. Association Film Festival, the Drunken Film Festival, and of course that proverbial 800-pound gorilla of film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival. The folks at S.F. Indie Fest have contributed to this month’s cinematic bounty by offering not one but two film → Read More
All The Cool Stuff Coming To Hulu In October 2022
Of course October being Halloween month means Hulu offers scary tales or other stories honoring the season. So this month includes a Halloween special featuring the “Solar Opposites” crew, a remake of “Hellraiser” with “Sense 8”’s Jamie Clayton as Pinhead, and the long-awaited anime version of “Chainsaw Man.” Among the → Read More
The Cool Stuff Coming To The Pacific Film Archive In The Fall
Now that Labor Day has come and gone, it’s time for the start of the Fall quarter of the Pacific Film Archive (hereafter PFA) programs. This season’s programming offers a mix of both lengthy film series and mini-film series for those who can’t make huge time commitments. Among the subjects → Read More
All The Great Stuff Coming To Hulu In September 2022
Like an old broadcast network slogan says, Hulu in September is the place to be. There are new seasons of the acclaimed “Abbott Elementary,” “Atlanta,” and “Ramy.” For the film fans, the streamer offers this month a well-received punk-rock romance, the new film from the director of “Portrait Of A → Read More
All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In September 2022
Compared to the August debut of “The Sandman,” Netflix’s new September offerings feel tamer by comparison. Still, there are a few jewels to be found. The long-awaited “Bee and Puppycat” series finally debuts. The “Strangers On A Train” setup gets applied to the world of high school. And a much-delayed → Read More
The Great Stuff Coming To The 42nd S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Peyton Klein said her first exposure to anti-Semitism was the notorious Charlottesville Unite The Right rally. This high-schooler, who’s one of the interviewees in the documentary Repairing The World: Stories From The Tree Of Life, is not the only young person who mistakenly believed anti-Semitism ended with the Nazis’ defeat → Read More
All The Great Stuff Coming To Hulu In July
Yes, you could catch the final season of “Killing Eve,” as it debuts this month on Hulu. But isn’t life short enough that you don’t need to waste time on a series which ended on a note that even the original creator of Villanelle strongly disagreed with? YouTube has you → Read More
Frameline 46 Brings LGBTQ+ Cinematic Goodness
What better way to celebrate the Pride Month of June and stick it to the culture warriors of The Homophobe Party (aka the GQP) than by catching some films at Frameline 46? Yes, San Francisco’s annual showcase of LGBTQ+ friendly film returns with a hybrid of in-person theatrical screenings (at → Read More
Local Web Series “City Folx” Brings Drag King Laughs
Drag performance may be getting its moment in the pop cultural spotlight thanks to the likes of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” However, that spotlight’s mainly shining on drag queens, not drag kings. Instead of waiting for some mainstream media outlet to notice the talent of drag kings, local director Rae Dawn → Read More
The Warped Dimension Film Festival is Here!
Waiting for the next edition of the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival? Then whet your appetite for genre films this May 14-15 weekend by checking out the 2022 edition of the Warped Dimension Film Festival (hereafter “Warped”). Put on by the producers of Another Hole In The Head, → Read More
Here’s The Cool Stuff Coming To Hulu In May
Hulu in May offers: new seasons of comedy series headlined by Amy Poehler and Martin Freeman, a body horror tale from Finland, and even a documentary about the very ordinary people who took a personally huge gamble on GameStop stock. → Read More
Why You Shouldn’t Miss Out On The 25th San Francisco Silent Film Festival
At the Castro all Silent Film screenings will have live musical accompaniment! → Read More
All The Cool Stuff Coming To Netflix In May
William Shakespeare famously observed in his play “Twelfth Night” that “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Which of these categories Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will fall into, history will make the final judgment. American Netflix viewers can limit their judgment of Zelensky → Read More