Mark Wahlberg

"Broken City": A Miserable Film Full of Miserable People

"Silver Linings Playbook": Mostly Cloudy Storytelling

"Ted": More of the Same from Seth MacFarlane's Minor Ursus

The Summer Movie Rises: Twenty Films to Watch Out For

Don Nelson's Time in Golden State Was Like A Four Loko Bender

Don Nelson's stints as head coach of the Warriors were like those nights when a group friends decide to shotgun a case of Four Loko then club hop through the city. Those nights start off gloriously. There's excitement and energy and gratuitous high-fiving and within hours they're locking down extra ... More >>

The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

Andy Samberg Pulls Out His Mark Zuckerberg Impression at Facebook Conference

While the big news out of f8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, was the introduction of Timeline and their partnership with Spotify, Rhapsody, Turntable.fm, MOG and more, what really got the crowd's attention was an intro by Andy Samberg. As spotted over at SFist, Samberg started the c ... More >>

No Relation to Hasselhoff

While the big news out of f8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, was the introduction of Timeline and their partnership with Spotify, Rhapsody, Turntable.fm, MOG and more, what really got the crowd's attention was an intro by Andy Samberg. As spotted over at SFist, Samberg started the c ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

While the big news out of f8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, was the introduction of Timeline and their partnership with Spotify, Rhapsody, Turntable.fm, MOG and more, what really got the crowd's attention was an intro by Andy Samberg. As spotted over at SFist, Samberg started the c ... More >>

Mark Wahlberg Compares Justin Bieber to Tupac: World Cries

Yes. You did read the headline correctly: Mark Wahlberg just compared Justin Bieber to Tupac Shakur. Since you -- like us -- probably can't quite believe that just happened, here's the actual (ridiculous) quote:"The world needs Justin Bieber," Wahlberg opined. "Justin Bieber is like the white Tupa ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings for March 9-15, 2011

Yes. You did read the headline correctly: Mark Wahlberg just compared Justin Bieber to Tupac Shakur. Since you -- like us -- probably can't quite believe that just happened, here's the actual (ridiculous) quote:"The world needs Justin Bieber," Wahlberg opined. "Justin Bieber is like the white Tupa ... More >>

"The Fighter": Boxer biopic falls through the ropes

Yes. You did read the headline correctly: Mark Wahlberg just compared Justin Bieber to Tupac Shakur. Since you -- like us -- probably can't quite believe that just happened, here's the actual (ridiculous) quote:"The world needs Justin Bieber," Wahlberg opined. "Justin Bieber is like the white Tupa ... More >>

Top Chef: Just Desserts, Episode 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Bitchy

Bravo TVPretty boy swag: Taste Catering's Yigit Pura.​Following Kevin asking "I am?" seconds after being told he was Season 7's Top Chef last night, thereby restoring some reality-show dignity to New Jersey (it's taken a beating from the Housewives and Jersey Shore kids) something oh-so-sweet ... More >>

Muni Accepts Gun Group's Poster Promoting Use of Firearms

http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com ​Click on image for larger version​Last month, SF Weekly broke the story that Muni forced the guns to be edited out of the poster for The Other Guys -- as depicting Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell with handguns would violate the transit agency's policy agains ... More >>

Pot Ads on Muni? They're Already on BART -- So Why Not?

Coming to a Muni bus near you?​SF Weekly's Chris Roberts yesterday reported that a local medical marijuana delivery service impresario has gotten his ads cleared to run on Muni vehicles. Not so fast, says Muni spokesman Paul Rose. Yes, Kevin Reed of the Green Cross has approached Titan Outdoor, wh ... More >>

'The Other Guys' Movie Poster has No Guns in Muni Station -- But Fully Armed on Muni Buses

No guns here...​Last week, we noted that the movie posters for the predictably low-brow but high-grossing cop comedy The Other Guys had been disarmed by Muni. While Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are soaring through the air, guns drawn, in the billboard you'll see by the freeway, they're either pu ... More >>

"The Other Guys": Will Ferrell and Adam McKay reteam

No guns here...​Last week, we noted that the movie posters for the predictably low-brow but high-grossing cop comedy The Other Guys had been disarmed by Muni. While Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are soaring through the air, guns drawn, in the billboard you'll see by the freeway, they're either pu ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

No guns here...​Last week, we noted that the movie posters for the predictably low-brow but high-grossing cop comedy The Other Guys had been disarmed by Muni. While Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are soaring through the air, guns drawn, in the billboard you'll see by the freeway, they're either pu ... More >>

Metreon Manager's Ruse Turns Into 'Office Space' Gone Bad

We're thinking Mark Wahlberg for the big screen? ​Kenneth Rae Kintsley perhaps took Office Space a little too much to heart,  deciding to get revenge on his faceless corporate employer by skimming its profits through some computer hijinks. Unfortunately for Kintsley, a former manager at the M ... More >>

Bad marriage: Lowbrow and chemistry-free in "Date Night"

We're thinking Mark Wahlberg for the big screen? ​Kenneth Rae Kintsley perhaps took Office Space a little too much to heart,  deciding to get revenge on his faceless corporate employer by skimming its profits through some computer hijinks. Unfortunately for Kintsley, a former manager at the M ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Pee Play

​DJ Pee Play possesses the sort of mentality that keeps San Francisco's club--and cultural--scene vital. When he saw a nightlife void, instead of bitching about it, he went after filling it. And when one bar told him no, he started up a whole collective of likeminded DJs to do forward-thinking eve ... More >>

We Rent the Night

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.

‘The Worst Music Ever’ pulls Smash Mouth from the crapper

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.

Multiple Personalities

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.

Long Live Jack Rebney

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.

Crackers & Cheese

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Royal Flush

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

The Impossible Bomb

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Funky Bunch

Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

Anatomy of a Sumbitch

Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

Method Rocking

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

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 24, 2002

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a rock star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

Reel World

Rocker Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind dabbles in acting

Lumet Lite

The Yards borrows liberally from its predecessors, but that may not be a bad thing

Jet Set

The Yards borrows liberally from its predecessors, but that may not be a bad thing

The Not-So-Magnificent Anderson

Magnolia

War Is Heck

Magnolia

Blame It on the Boogie

Magnolia

The Books of Rhyme Pages

From Michael Eric Dyson to Darius James, black writers struggle to define hip-hop culture