Quentin Tarantino

Coffy Break

Fired Man Convicted of Torture After Beating Boss into Coma

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Tortured: Coming to grips with the War on Terror

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for March 24-30, 2010

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for February 3-9, 2010

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for January 27-February 2, 2010

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 9-15, 2009

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for September 2-8, 2009

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9

Broyles didn't use this, but he might as well have.​Hey, Quentin Tarantino, we have a plot for your next film. Roger Broyles was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of torture last week for brutally beating his employer's chief financial officer when he told him he was fired. Why? The 49-yea ... More >>

There Can Be Only One: Man, Armed With Samurai Sword and 'Talking Crazy,' Assaults Cops

"Samurai Hotel" debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1975. On July 30 it took place in San Francisco -- for real.​It was James Brown who famously uttered "I don't know karate but I do know ka-razy!" Well, pity the cops who encounter the man who knows both. Last week in San Francisco, it appears to ha ... More >>

In the Heat of the Knight

Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south.

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south.

Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

January Movies To Watch - 'Cassandra’s Dream' and What the TIFF Told Me

Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

Renaissance Man

Wu-Tang producer RZA's balancing act

When He Was Small

Wu-Tang producer RZA's balancing act

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

Palm d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

Work in Progress

Our early responder finds some good things to eat among some chaff at S.F.'s new retail paradise

Psych Art

Zmijewski prods human nature

Race Relationships

Mansbach's angry young men

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Mansbach's angry young men

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

Reps Etc.

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

Get Lost

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

Reps Etc.

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

Like Father, Like Son

Think Quentin Tarantino's flicks are gory? Wait 'til you see his dad's new, um, movie

Treasure Hunt

It's hard to figure Demonlover out, but it's fun to try

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

It's hard to figure Demonlover out, but it's fun to try

Cain and Abel

It's only a matter of time before someone else in The Lonesome West dies

Reps Etc.

It's only a matter of time before someone else in The Lonesome West dies

Boo Hoo

The Man Who Cried doesn't engender much sympathy

Jet Set

The Man Who Cried doesn't engender much sympathy

Better Scotch

The Man Who Cried doesn't engender much sympathy

Master of the Games

The Man Who Cried doesn't engender much sympathy

American Psycho

The Beach

Night + Day

The Beach

Of Vice and Men

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

The House of Tudor

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Second Time Around

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

The House of Tudor

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Sex and the Single Parent

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Night+Day

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Night+Day

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Reel World

In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back

Blood simple

"Shallow Grave" a clinical exercise in gore and paranoia; the Tao of girls and guns in "Love & a .45"