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Only Lovers Left Alive
Bernard Boo | April 18, 2014You couldn’t ask for two actors better suited to play a couple of sharp-featured, hipster vampire lovers than...
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Cuban Fury
Bernard Boo | April 9, 2014Nick Frost, best known as Simon Pegg’s tubby partner in crime in the “Cornetto Trilogy” (Shaun of the...
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On My Way
Bernard Boo | April 4, 2014What’s surprising about On My Way, a latter-life crisis road trip film starring Catherine Deneuve, is that the film...
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Barefoot
Kandyss Hicks | April 4, 2014Andrew Fleming’s Barefoot falls short of being both an intriguing and emotionally moving film. Coming from a director...
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Rob the Mob
Bernard Boo | April 2, 2014Rob the Mob opens with a robbery, but not the perilous kind the title suggests: In early 1990’s...
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Dom Hemingway
Jonathan Andrews | April 2, 2014No one likes a comedy that isn’t funny. There is some unspoken law, an unwritten edict, that it...
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Veronica Mars
Ananda Dillon | April 1, 2014“A long time ago, we used to be friends…” The theme song to Veronica Mars the TV show...
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Cheap Thrills
Bernard Boo | March 26, 2014Like an alternative, bite-size version of Breaking Bad, first-time director E.L. Katz’s gruesome comedy Cheap Thrills takes an unassuming suburban family...
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Le Week-End
Colleen Munro | March 20, 2014If the success of films such as The Best Exotic Marigold, Hotel, Quartet, and Philomena have proven anything, it’s...
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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Kandyss Hicks | March 14, 2014Crispian Mills’ A Fantastic Fear of Everything, while it falls short of being fantastic itself, offers a character study...
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Love & Demons
Bernard Boo | March 14, 2014Love and Demons opens with San Francisco-based writer-director J.P. Allen, playing a demon named “Mister D.”, addressing the...
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Chiemi Karasawa Shines a Light on Stage Legend Elaine Stritch
Bernard Boo | March 11, 2014Chiemi Karasawa didn’t know much about Elaine Stritch before shooting Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, an authentic, honest look at...
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Arie Posin Talks Seeing Double in ‘The Face of Love’
Bernard Boo | March 11, 2014In Arie Posin’s The Face of Love, we follow a widow named Nikki (Annette Bening) who meets a man...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
C.J. Prince | March 4, 2014Partway through The Grand Budapest Hotel, there’s an argument between Dmitri (Adrien Brody, looking brilliantly evil) and his...
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SFFS Artist in Residence Sebastian Silva Talks The Gift of Spontaneity, ‘Magic Magic’
Bernard Boo | February 24, 2014“My biggest fear is for my mind to control me and not the other way around,”Chilean filmmaker Sebastian...