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Sometimes jobs are hard. Sometimes you have to go to Dogpatch to check out Dandelion Chocolate, a real-life chocolate factory, to smell, sample, and ogle handcrafted artisan...
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A weekly listing of new dining spots around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Acre Coffee: 525 Golden Gate (at Polk), www.acrecoffee.com. Civic Center/ Tenderloin....
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An amiable, seriocomic high-school-reunion movie, 10 Years succeeds in pulling off a fine varsity talent show. Although some performers, notably Channing Tatum, who also...
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A proficient suburban thriller that distributor Rogue has left to sell itself through the inducement of Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence's presence, House at the End of the...
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Typically, the creators of comic book adaptations assume that ingratiating themselves to anyone unfamiliar with their characters/properties demands boilerplate origin stories...
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Born in 1968, filmmaker David Ayer grew up in the infamously troubled region known as South Central Los Angeles. As an adult, his Hollywood calling card was the screenplay for...
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In his filmmaking debut, journalist David France, who wrote the first story about ACT UP for the Village Voice, assembles a thoroughly reported chronicle of that direct-action...
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There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas...
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As the documentary equivalent of a group character study, Somewhere Between isn't as sharply focused as you might hope. Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton (The World According...
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What a strange thing for an actor, when one has been rehearsing one's decline and death for so very long! Eastwood is 82 today; he was wasting away from TB as early as...
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We knew from Heavenly Creatures that Kate Winslet had a bright career ahead, but in that film, Melanie Lynskey was the one to watch. Is it possible that no director since...
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A critic's report from a film festival like Toronto, where something like 300 features were unveiled from Sept. 6 through 16, can be something like a Rorschach test —...
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"Death wasn't being responded to as a public health problem," David France says. "It was dealt with with sniggers. It was left to religious leaders to explain or respond to...
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The new, semi-gritty indie About Cherry is all about a semi-reluctant slide into the porn industry, and it's also the first mainstream feature co-written by a busy porn...
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Artists' Television Access. The Treatment: Documentary about the world of live performance art. Wed., Sept. 19, 8 p.m. $6. Dirty Hearts (Corações Sujos): Part of...
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The girl named Rajni performs in stockings that are torn and tattered, a sign she's from the lowest rung of India's economic ladder. The other girls in the photos are from the...
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At least 15,000 people died in the March 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan. Vestiges of those lives — portraits of happy couples, kids playing baseball, families eating...
