Trailer: I OriginsBy Dustin Jansick Mike Cahill’s I Origins landed on my radar from the moment the film was announced. Mainly because the last time Cahill and Brit Marling teamed up together they knocked...
SFFS Announces 2014 Documentary Film Fund WinnersBy Bernard Boo The San Francisco Film Society has announced the winners for their 2014 Documentary Film Fund with awards totaling more than $75,000. All films are in postproduction, and since its inception...
Trailer: American BloggerBy Kandyss Hicks In this day and age, it can truly be said that bloggers have a remarkable influence on the general public, whether it be what music we listen to, what...
Trailer: OculusBy Dustin Jansick Are you ready to be freaked out by a mirror? Mike Flanagan’s horror film Oculus is about an antique mirror that supposedly possesses people into committing murder. Two siblings...
Trailer: BorgmanBy Dustin Jansick Alex van Warmerdam’s wonderfully bizarre film Borgman made its world premiere last year at Cannes. Trailer does a great job of capturing the strange nature of the film that...
57th Annual SFIFF Announces Full ProgramBy Bernard Boo Today, the San Francisco Film Society (and its new executive director Noah Cowan) announced the full lineup for the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, running from April...
Trailer: God Forgive UsBy Amy Priest God Forgive Us is the debut feature film by Director Michael Bachochin. The film is described as being “a dramatic collision of four strangers struggling through drug addiction, existential...
2014 Reel Indie Film Festival Submissions Now Open!By C.J. Prince After a great inaugural year, the Reel Indie Film Festival (RiFF) is getting ready for its second anniversary. Founded in 2013 as a companion to Indie Week, an independent...
Lollapalooza 2014 Lineup RevealedBy Dustin Jansick The official lineup for the 2014 Lollapalooza music festival has been announced with Outkast, Arctic Monkeys, Eminem, Skrillex, and Kings of Leon as the headliners. The festival will take...
CFI Education Puts 10 Young Girls Behind the CameraBy Bernard Boo The California Film Institute screened 10 short films made by girls aged 11-14 at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael as a part of their “My Place/My...
SFIFF Announces Opening and Closing Night FilmsBy Bernard Boo The 57th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 24-May 8, has announced its opening night film as The Two Faces of January, starring Oscar Isaac,...
Hot Docs 2014 Lineup AnnouncedBy C.J. Prince The Hot Docs film festival finally unveiled its line-up today, revealing plenty of exciting new titles along with screenings of documentary classics and undiscovered gems. The festival announced 197...
CAAMFest: How to Fight, Grace Lee Boggs, Cold EyesBy Bernard Boo How to Fight in Six Inch Heels Last Thursday night at San Francisco’s beautiful Castro theater, CAAMFest 2014 kicked with a silly-fun romantic comedy to set the tone for...
7 Favorite Films From SXSW 2014By Dustin Jansick I was pleasantly surprised in the amount of quality films that I saw at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, although I admit that I was fairly selective in the...
