Academy Awards

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Star Power

The Elusive Happy Ending

You Should Explore Your Own

Up Yours

Good Luck, Philippe!

Saint Nic

Small Packages

Repertory Film Listings

The Wrong Side

A seminal anti-war documentary exposes the horrors of the United States' presence in Vietnam

Geek Love

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Reps Etc.

Join 9,000 other comics fans and fanatics at WonderCon 2004

Tranny Get Your Fun

Colorful parties, curious panel discussions, and lots and lots of movies

The Bad Sleep Well

Colorful parties, curious panel discussions, and lots and lots of movies

Movie Meals

A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

Best Place to See a Movie and Drink Beer

The Parkway Theater

Best Movie Memorabilia

Show Biz

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Reel World

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Big Night

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Night+Day

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Night+Day

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Moving the Dead

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Cunning Linguists

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Police and Thieves

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

2010 Academy Award Nominated Shorts: Live Action

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

It’s an Honor Just to Be Aggravated

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Oscar Wild: The Academy Awards bring the crazy

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

Horror Business

Freedom on My Mind and Never Fear

What To Do? Tales From Terror Town at Mezzanine

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Toon-Up Your Inner Child

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Sundance dominated by cults and the uncertain future

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

"The Eagle": A Neophyte Roman General Leads a Boy's Adventure

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Showcasing Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Idol Worship

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Academy Goes for Safe Nominations

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Thank a Teacher — If You Can Find One

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Glee to Get Its Own Music Awards Show; Suicide Rate Likely to Increase

Yesterday, Perez Hilton announced (in his usual fawning, sycophantic way) that this year -- on May 31, to be precise -- there will be a Glee music awards show. We now officially feel like the cast of that show is so damn ubiquitous, its members might as well be breaking into our homes at night and ... More >>

Refuge in Refuse

Yesterday, Perez Hilton announced (in his usual fawning, sycophantic way) that this year -- on May 31, to be precise -- there will be a Glee music awards show. We now officially feel like the cast of that show is so damn ubiquitous, its members might as well be breaking into our homes at night and ... More >>

This Weekend's World Veg Fest is Guaranteed Bananas!

Tamara PalmerOCD Sweet's Caramel 'Not' Corn for your face.​What: 12th Annual World Vegetarian Festival Where: San Francisco County Fair Building When: Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 & 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $8 suggested donation The rundown: Gather round, ye hippies and bleeding hearts, it's ... More >>

An Education on Education

Tamara PalmerOCD Sweet's Caramel 'Not' Corn for your face.​What: 12th Annual World Vegetarian Festival Where: San Francisco County Fair Building When: Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 & 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $8 suggested donation The rundown: Gather round, ye hippies and bleeding hearts, it's ... More >>

An Education on Education

Tamara PalmerOCD Sweet's Caramel 'Not' Corn for your face.​What: 12th Annual World Vegetarian Festival Where: San Francisco County Fair Building When: Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 & 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $8 suggested donation The rundown: Gather round, ye hippies and bleeding hearts, it's ... More >>

Good Food Awards Brings a Beer Garden to the Ferry Building

​ The Good Food Awards is kind of like the Oscars, only a touch less glamorous and a lot more focused on cured meat and pickles. This weekend, awards will be given out in categories such as charcuterie, cheese, coffee, and chocolate. If you ask us, those are a lot more exciting than Best Costu ... More >>

The 13 Worst Songs to Listen to While High

​In the world of random audio hallucination, there's the shit and then there's, well, shit. While I own some terrible stoner tunes, mere good taste, as everyone knows, goes for little in a world of thin walls, car audio, American Idol, and an ongoing '90s revival. Drunk or sober, bent or stra ... More >>

Five Songs That Should Have Been Nominated For an Oscar This Year

​Really, Academy? Only two nominations for Best Original Song this year? And they're both from children's movies? Because there were so many songs on your shortlist (39, to precise), and because only songs that score an average of 8.5 out of 10 from your voters can get nominated, you basically jus ... More >>

Tough Guys and Long Legs

​Really, Academy? Only two nominations for Best Original Song this year? And they're both from children's movies? Because there were so many songs on your shortlist (39, to precise), and because only songs that score an average of 8.5 out of 10 from your voters can get nominated, you basically jus ... More >>