Christopher Walken

"Stand-Up Guys": Walken and Pacino's Excellent Chemistry

"A Late Quartet": More of a Minor Lift

"Seven Psychopaths": A Great, Nasty Time at the Movies

Stalking Christopher Walken

Ride ‘Em All Around the Old Corral

Sketchfest Renders S.F. a City Under Comic Seige

Is there any comic more suited to an old-time radio play than John Hodgman, with his everyday suits, sometimes-mustache, and thin, delicate fingers? Of course not. He appears Sunday night in an old-time radio play, The Thrilling Adventure Hour at Marines Memorial Theatre, one of the many events at S ... More >>

A Great Deluge

Snakes on a Plane, Etc.

Tim Lincecum's In-N-Out Binge

The breakfast of champions...​We can't decide. Does Tim Lincecum's new look more closely resemble Iggy Pop or the Christopher Walken "The Continental" character from Saturday Night Live? Consider it food for thought. Speaking of food and thought, we think Lincecum's professed favorite food order a ... More >>

Drag It Up

The Top 6 Weirdest Actor Cameos in Music Videos

What did we do on Christmas after we'd eaten a mountain of food and watched a giant stack of movies? Looked for actors in music videos, of course! Here are six of the weirdest cameos big-name actors have made in music videos. 6. Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice"
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The Top 5 Most Absurdly Entertaining Songs About Actors

Seen any good movies lately? You probably have. We haven't, though. Because we've been too busy this week laughing our own faces off at a variety of songs about the stars of stage and screen. Here's a countdown of our favorites. Behold! A bunch of stuff we'd almost forgotten about! 5. Bananarama, " ... More >>

NAPT: Show Preview

Hard French Season Finale, Indie Mart, Kitsch & Fuzzz, Bookfest 2010 and More

Walken plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday​Still covered in orange and black tickertape from the Giants parade? Got a hangover from all the revelry? Don't stop believing S.F., hang on to that feeling. You can keep the party going through the weekend with these cheap local happenings. Here's our li ... More >>

Saturday Night: Deerhunter Unveils Ghostly Art-Pop at Slim's

Cherrell Johnston​DeerhunterReal EstateOctober 30, 2010@ Slim'sBetter than: Dressing up as Christopher Walken and/or Robert DeNiro from The Deer Hunter for Halloween and making Russian roulette references in front of strangers. There's a certain ghoulishness, something otherworldly and ghostl ... More >>

Seven Spoken Word Recordings We'd Like To Hear In Godspeed You! Black Emperor's New Live Set

2010: Where's Google in all this?​We've recently learned, to paroxysms of geekish glee, that Montreal post-rock godfathers Godspeed You! Black Emperor are dusting off their delay pedals and violin bows for one last big score in 2011. After a brisk European tour, kicked off with a handful of All To ... More >>

Vietnamese Crawfish Boil

Crack a beer and some tail

Demands that may have slowed BART-union negotiations

Cheap Weekend: 10 Things to Do for Under $10

Ash Reiter plays ATA on FridayEvery work week should last only four days, max. It's already Friday, friends, and time for a roundup of the best cheap ways to spend your time until the Man chains you back to your paycheck Monday morning. Inglourious Basterds at YBCA (Friday) Tonight Yerba Buena scree ... More >>

More Cowbell

Walken with Rhythm

Killing My Lobster new show doesn't kill

King Kang

Romance & Cigarettes

Torture Flick Rendition' Makes Us Water-Bored

Repertory Film Listing

Test My Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album

Coming Soon

The summer season always brings out the worst in Hollywood, but there are also gems to be found

Voter Fraud

Barry Levinson wags the dog again, but his bark is worse than his bite

Pause & Effect

A truly universal remote leads to Sandler's best movie in years

The Big Picture

Week 2 of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

Always a Bridesmaid

Skirt-chasing Vince Vaughn is Wedding Crashers' master of ceremonies

Reps Etc.

Megawestern

The Heaven's Gate boondoggle, revisited

A New Lease on Life

This Wonderful Life isn't about saving a bank -- or Christmas

The Dead Clone

In Imagining Argentina, Antonio's boots are made for Walken

Summer Film Previews

Reps Etc.

Cain and Abel

Controversial cult director Abel Ferrara gets a Roxie retrospective

The State of Affair

Hilary Swank returns to revolutionize

The Feckless Horseman

The Lying Game

Night+Day

Women Under the Influence

Stalemate

Night Crawler

Slap Shots

Amour or Less

French kisses never tasted so bittersweet as in Love After Love