Bill Murray

The Year in Film: Top 10 Movies of 2012

"Hyde Park on Hudson": Patrician Patriotism

Rise Up

Simian Mobile Disco: Show Preview

The 6 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

6. Simian Mobile Disco @ Mezzanine, Saturday, Dec. 1 Ever since Jas Shaw and James Ford split off from indie-pop outfit Simian circa 2006 to form Simian Mobile Disco, a cheeky sensibility has always underpinned the duo's slinky electro. On 2009's Temporary Pleasure, SMD mocked rich-kid opulence with ... More >>

"Moonrise Kingdom": Young Love, Wes Anderson-Style

6. Simian Mobile Disco @ Mezzanine, Saturday, Dec. 1 Ever since Jas Shaw and James Ford split off from indie-pop outfit Simian circa 2006 to form Simian Mobile Disco, a cheeky sensibility has always underpinned the duo's slinky electro. On 2009's Temporary Pleasure, SMD mocked rich-kid opulence with ... More >>

Sigur Rós' Valtari: We Imagine What Scenes the Soundtrack Kings' New Album Will Set

We've read interviews with music supervisors -- those folks responsible for selecting, negotiating, and placing music in television programs, movies, and commercials -- where the questions centered on topics such as licensing agreements, working relationships with filmmakers, and general inspiration ... More >>

"Source Code": Sci-Fi Thriller Worth Your Popcorn Dollar

We've read interviews with music supervisors -- those folks responsible for selecting, negotiating, and placing music in television programs, movies, and commercials -- where the questions centered on topics such as licensing agreements, working relationships with filmmakers, and general inspiration ... More >>

Dickens Done Right

We've read interviews with music supervisors -- those folks responsible for selecting, negotiating, and placing music in television programs, movies, and commercials -- where the questions centered on topics such as licensing agreements, working relationships with filmmakers, and general inspiration ... More >>

"Get Low": Hermit Robert Duvall's life-affirming, pre-death funeral

We've read interviews with music supervisors -- those folks responsible for selecting, negotiating, and placing music in television programs, movies, and commercials -- where the questions centered on topics such as licensing agreements, working relationships with filmmakers, and general inspiration ... More >>

Good Rappers Who've Made Terrible Actors

The trend of rappers shifting into acting is nothing new, and in theory it makes sense. Both roles focus on emotive storytelling, right? Unfortunately, that transition isn't always a smooth one--a point hammered home repeatedly by the new film Just Wright, starring Queen Latifah and Common. It's 100 ... More >>

Video of the Day: Bill Murray Serves Everyone Tequila at SXSW

This may look like an ordinary video of a man serving hipsters drinks, but make no mistake. This is a video of Bill Murray, one of the coolest, non-smilingist actors of our time, deciding to help out slinging booze while he was in Austin for SXSW. Originally posted on The Blemish (with the approp ... More >>

Baylinks: Frank Chu, Fare Cheats, & Bill Murray

Justin Beck/flickr​Frank Chu late to his own birthday party. [SF Citizen] Cracking down on fare cheats costing Muni far more than resultant tickets. [SFAppeal]Erm, also, should you choose to pay that fine, you might have to pay an additional $3 "service fee." [Akit's Complaint Dept.]Yep, it's Bill ... More >>

Hot Tub Time Machine: Stupid funny

Justin Beck/flickr​Frank Chu late to his own birthday party. [SF Citizen] Cracking down on fare cheats costing Muni far more than resultant tickets. [SFAppeal]Erm, also, should you choose to pay that fine, you might have to pay an additional $3 "service fee." [Akit's Complaint Dept.]Yep, it's Bill ... More >>

SXSW 2010: The Rest of the Best (Best Coast, Broken Bells, Demolished Thoughts, More)

Best of SXSW: Saturday w/ Real Estate, Best Coast, Fool's Gold, Demolished Thoughts, Broken Bells, Dam-Funk, and Billy Murray Thinking back on SXSW's finale, I saw Real Estate more times than I probably should've (and that includes a Saturday day show). But that was in large part because the band's ... More >>

SXSW Roundup Thursday PM Pt. 1: Didn't Meet Bill Murray

In Austin, you can research and schedule and make the right Twitter friends and you're still gonna miss something with every decision that you make. Case in point: on Thursday afternoon, realizing the last thing I put in my stomach came in a tall can, I left a random day party where GZA was performi ... More >>

Hey, Everybody! We're All Gonna Get Laid!

In Austin, you can research and schedule and make the right Twitter friends and you're still gonna miss something with every decision that you make. Case in point: on Thursday afternoon, realizing the last thing I put in my stomach came in a tall can, I left a random day party where GZA was performi ... More >>

Wes Anderson's comeback: Gen Y's anointed auteur returns

In Austin, you can research and schedule and make the right Twitter friends and you're still gonna miss something with every decision that you make. Case in point: on Thursday afternoon, realizing the last thing I put in my stomach came in a tall can, I left a random day party where GZA was performi ... More >>

Hot Meal: Prime Rib Shabu

M. BrodySwish swish.​Shabu shabu is the Japanese equivalent of fondue. It's a participatory meal you cook at table, dipping meats, seafood, and vegetables into a simmering broth that picks up flavor as the meal wears on. The name, legend has it, is onomatopoetic, from the sound a piece of food ... More >>

The Limits of Control

M. BrodySwish swish.​Shabu shabu is the Japanese equivalent of fondue. It's a participatory meal you cook at table, dipping meats, seafood, and vegetables into a simmering broth that picks up flavor as the meal wears on. The name, legend has it, is onomatopoetic, from the sound a piece of food ... More >>

The Limits of Control

M. BrodySwish swish.​Shabu shabu is the Japanese equivalent of fondue. It's a participatory meal you cook at table, dipping meats, seafood, and vegetables into a simmering broth that picks up flavor as the meal wears on. The name, legend has it, is onomatopoetic, from the sound a piece of food ... More >>

Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control

M. BrodySwish swish.​Shabu shabu is the Japanese equivalent of fondue. It's a participatory meal you cook at table, dipping meats, seafood, and vegetables into a simmering broth that picks up flavor as the meal wears on. The name, legend has it, is onomatopoetic, from the sound a piece of food ... More >>

Bad Habits

Square Mama revives dead comedy. Bad idea.

Ghostbusters Video Game Details Revealed

Square Mama revives dead comedy. Bad idea.

Cellar Beware

Square Mama revives dead comedy. Bad idea.

Again With the Serious Face?

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Repertory Film Listings

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Repertory Film Listings

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

The black and white came and crushed my groove (again)

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Digging in the Dirt

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Going for Broken

Jim Jarmusch's latest road movie is filled with fetching existential ambiguities

Sea of Loathe

Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there

Reps Etc.

Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there

Bill Thrills

A week of Murray mania

Reps Etc.

A week of Murray mania

Fitting the Bill

Murray makes Garfield more than a bad cat movie

Old Faithful

For the 2004 summer season, Hollywood sticks with what it knows

House of Tudor

The squirlly Full Moon Partisans square off against the folky Two Gallants; puppets give the cat the hatchet

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion

City Hall

We hope Gavin Newsom follows through on promises to shake up the Film Commission

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Cinema Synergy

Combining moviegoing with appropriate meals increases our pleasure

Fallen Angels

Charlie's high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Farrah to Poor

With clipped wings, Charlie's Angels fly way too low to the ground

By His Own Creed

Ethan Hawke stars in Hamlet

Sermon on the Mount

Ethan Hawke stars in Hamlet

Bowling for Dullards

Kingpin Directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. Starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, and Bill Murray.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Kingpin Directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. Starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, and Bill Murray.