Nicolas Cage

"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is a Demonic Dud

Machinedrum's Travis Stewart Explains Seven of His Favorite Weird YouTube Videos

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Ignoring the '10 Famous Dishes' List at Yuet Lee

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Paradise Regained

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"Unknown": Liam Neeson Can't Save a Tepid Thriller

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Sold, Soul, Rock, Roll

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(100) Days of Summer Movies

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Local Band Q&A with Local Noiseniks CCR Headcleaner

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Geek Chic

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New Orleans is breeding ground for Nicolas Cage's Bad Lieutenant

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June Book Events: Ayelet Waldman, Barry Gifford, Alice Waters, and more

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Summer Grows Up

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

Saint Nic

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

Hell on Wheels

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

Farce of a Champion

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

One Day in September

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the Twin Towers

Get Inside!

Your forecast of the summer's top movies

Repertory Film Listings

Your forecast of the summer's top movies

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man's a comedy, but not that kind

Good Shot

Lord of War unloads one of the year's best cinema moments

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes us long for good Nic Cage movies ... like Con Air

Best Local Poet-Crank

August Kleinzahler

Creep Week

Seven nights of frightening films

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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

Best Crazy S.F. Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Tactile Dome

Gale Farce

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

Read 'Em and Eat

Specific hungers are induced by journalism -- and satisfied in short order

My Favorite Year

It's easy to be positive about the upcoming year in local film

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

Letters to the Editor for the week of 12-5-2001

We Never Got Around to Publishing: Get Me the Pentagon; They Don't Get Letters Like This at The New Yorker; Have a Problem No One Else Can Solve? Let SF Weekly Help.

Reel World

Rocker Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind dabbles in acting

Ship of Fools

The setting is the only real star in the cliché-ridden Captain Corelli's Mandolin

House Of Tudor

Devil-Ettes fund-raiser; Love Psychedelico; "Sound Effects: The Magic of Foley"

Social Grace

The Sound of Idiots

Reel World

Sidewalk Stories; High Art

Reel World

Flaming Creatures; Chungking Express; D.O.A.

Night Crawler

Suspended Adulation

A Quality Year

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Hot and Bothered

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Reel World

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Reel World

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

One of Us Stinks

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

'Faced

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

From Hong Kong to Hollywood

A conversation with John Woo

Once More Onto the Beach

A visit to (dull) Camp Shakespeare

Night Crawler

A visit to (dull) Camp Shakespeare

Night+Day

A visit to (dull) Camp Shakespeare