Susan Sarandon

Worthy of Lebowski

"Jeff, Who Lives at Home": Endearingly Illustrates Man-Child

Ananda Fuara: Keeping It Classic

Jonathan KauffmanNeatloaf from Ananda Fuara.​ Part of a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.Given its grotty corner, given its windowless exterior, it's always a shock to enter Ananda Fuara and find yourself in a such a bright space. From ... More >>

"Wall Street 2": Oliver Stone lets the bad guys off easy

Jonathan KauffmanNeatloaf from Ananda Fuara.​ Part of a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.Given its grotty corner, given its windowless exterior, it's always a shock to enter Ananda Fuara and find yourself in a such a bright space. From ... More >>

Thanks to the magic of 3-D CGI, Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones

Jonathan KauffmanNeatloaf from Ananda Fuara.​ Part of a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.Given its grotty corner, given its windowless exterior, it's always a shock to enter Ananda Fuara and find yourself in a such a bright space. From ... More >>

Harpoons and Harbingers

This fall, visual artists bite, reflect, and cannibalize.

Recession Fest

Less money, fewer hits at midpoint of Sundance 2009.

Ladies Light

Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.

Speed Racer

Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.

Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

Last Night: Eddie Vedder at Berkeley's Zellerbach Theatre

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

What a Toad

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Romance & Cigarettes

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Walk Through the Valley

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Necessary Evil

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

The Big Picture

Week 2 of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival

When Stars Don't Align

Week 2 of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival

Crowe Flies Home

Elizabethtown is a mess, not that its director should care

Trust Bush

Aschenbrand's witty, raunchy memoir

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 23, 2005

Imposter Impersonator

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

Candy Caine

Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

Gere and J.Lo Dance, and there's nothing dirty about it

Greek Out

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

A Walk in the Dark

The rest of the country is re-appraising the death penalty; California sues to keep a minister from comforting those facing execution

Halloween Calendar

The rest of the country is re-appraising the death penalty; California sues to keep a minister from comforting those facing execution

Reel World

The rest of the country is re-appraising the death penalty; California sues to keep a minister from comforting those facing execution

Reel World

Rachel&185;s Daughters

Dead Man Not Praying

The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

Emotional Rescue

The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

Confederacy of Dunces

A Time to Kill Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and Kevin Spacey.

A Peach Grows in SOMA

S.F. animator Henry Selick brings Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach to the screen

Every Block Tells a Story

A Mission bagel shop proves an eye-opening site for Bert Katz

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

The Celluloid Closet ponders gay images in the movies

Death and Transfiguration

Dead Man Walking airs both sides in the moral dilemma of capital punishment

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dead Man Walking airs both sides in the moral dilemma of capital punishment