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Feb 11, 2025

Romance cinema curated by relationship type

When writing about movies to watch with one’s spouse, partner, significant other or all by one’s own damn self for Valentine’s Day, I found myself focusing on the futility of such an endeavor. Every single relationship is different, obviously, but even more specific are the things that each of...
Jan 28, 2025

David Lynch Forever

Film Review: ‘A Complete Unknown’ reveals Bob’s back pages
Dec 23, 2024

Film Review: ‘A Complete Unknown’ reveals Bob’s back pages

From its casting to its settings to its all-important musical choices, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is an electrifying, irresistibly engaging portrait of one of America’s unique originals, Bob Dylan. Covering the years from Dylan’s 1961 arrival in...
‘Gladiator’ all over: Try on these sword-and-sandals epics
Dec 17, 2024

‘Gladiator’ all over: Try on these sword-and-sandals epics

Regarding Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the sequel to his Gladiator (2000): What would the world do without gladiator movies? The ones set in the ancient Roman Empire, of course, preferably in the vast and menacing Colosseum. Where...
Film Review: Home alone in 'Heretic'
Nov 5, 2024

Film Review: Home alone in ‘Heretic’

Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is. Although, he’s undoubtedly visited the outskirts of the M&P neighborhood in his 42-year stint as one of the...
Retrospective showcases revolutionary Soviet filmmaker
Oct 31, 2024

Retrospective showcases revolutionary Soviet filmmaker

Sergei Parajanov is a filmmaking superstar most of today’s moviegoers have never heard of. And yet the late director (1924-1990) is hailed by fellow cineastes, critics and historians as one of the greatest film artists who ever...
Arab Film Festival depicts a community moving forward
Oct 29, 2024

Arab Film Festival depicts a community moving forward

The sound of aircraft intrudes upon the lives of Gazan refugees in many of the 22 short films that comprise From Ground Zero, the centerpiece film at this year’s Arab Film Festival. Sometimes the men, women and...
‘My Old Ass’ is more than just the latest Aubrey Plaza movie
Oct 18, 2024

‘My Old Ass’ is more than just the latest Aubrey Plaza movie

It had to happen eventually: Aubrey Plaza’s latest vehicle is a comparably lightweight comic feel-gooder. It’s called My Old Ass, and despite its cheeky title it changes everything we thought we knew about one of the most...
Albany FilmFest returns to the East Bay
Oct 8, 2024

Albany FilmFest returns to the East Bay

The 14th Annual Albany FilmFest (AFF) returns to the East Bay, if not to Albany, beginning Oct. 10. The Albany Twin movie theater closed suddenly in June 2023, while AFF’s staff was in the middle of planning...
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