Billy Bob Thornton

Best Sandwiches in the Movies: Don't Forget Spinal Tap

We very much enjoyed Bon Appetit's all-sandwich-all-the-time coverage last week for Sandwich Week, but had a few quibbles with their list of the 13 best sandwiches on film. Mainly because they missed one of our all-time sandwich scenes: The tiny bread (and regular sized lunch meat) that causes such ... More >>

Sentimental Journey: Traveling in 1957's S.F. Bay Area

Terry Helbling's Tenderloin Flat Full of $200K in Stolen Art

Get Your Leather and Chains Ready: It's Motorhead Week in S.F.

​Ladies, gentlemen, and heathens, it is Motorhead week here in San Francisco.It is Motorhead week because the trio itself (consisting, as it long has, of bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister and a rotating set of guitarists and drummers), is playing the Warfield tomorrow night. This is a chance to see o ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 8-14, 2010

Fuck Vampires

Neither Shaken Nor Stirred

Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace.

Kevin Costner rocks the Fillmore

Heath Ledger Dead at 28 - Gals (Dudes too) at SF Weekly Gasping, Demanding 'Why!?'

Hear This

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

Bouncer

Salvia and psychonauts at Eagles Drift In

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

A Star Is Born

Strange things happen when actors sing

Common Cold

Harold Ramis' Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

L.A. Story

One movie shows: What Hollywood did to SoCal, it could do to S.F.

Bad News

One more awful remake strikes out

Not Rockne

A worthy actor rides the bench in the listless Coach Carter

Method Rocking

Juliette Lewis and Minnie Driver have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Hell of a Catch

Friday Night Lights goes deep -- a rare route for football movies

Grown Up

Shorts of a different color

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Hard Sell

Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?

2003: Year of the Wonka Record

For the year's 10 best records, go somewhere else. For the year's 10 best "Wonka Records," you've come to the right place.

Postcards From the Edge

Pat Boone and Billy Bob Thornton in Namibia: No wonder it's called Levity

Solitary Refinement

Love would be so much easier if we all lived by the credo of the quirkyalone

"Hysterics"

Two solo pieces -- about twisted Southerners and a 15-year-old madwoman -- may be this fall's sleeper hit

The Return of Martin Guerre

The beloved Fine Arts Cinema in Berkeley temporarily reopens

Half the Kingdom

The Jewish Film Festival loses its director after 21 years

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Honky-tonker Jill Olson infuses her solo album with a touch of sadness

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Cain and Very Able

Billy Bob doesn't say much, but he's the perfect Man for the Coens' con job

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Mexican Jumping Scenes

Oh for the good old mythic cowboy life!

Anime Instincts

"Studio Ghibli: The Magic of Miyazaki, Takahata, and Kondo"

Delinquency, Belgium-Style

Rosie

Eight Isn't Enough

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Money Changes Everything

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Pulling the Gimp String

A Four-Star Waste