Though best known as a Bay Area theater director, Amy Glazer has movies in her blood. As a child, she got to hang out with Mel Brooks and Zero Mostel because her uncle, Sidney Glazier (who spelled his name differently),…
The Sound of Music Sing-along: The Castro Theatre has been doing sing-alongs to musicals for a decade or so, and the 1965 box office champ and best picture winner starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and a lot…
The magnificent Art Deco tower of the El Rey Theatre has long been an important landmark in Alex Mullaney’s life. “My grandparents lived in Ingleside Terrace,” Mullaney says, recalling his childhood in the early 1990s
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Cars 2 This sequel to the 2006 Pixar animation comedy im-proves on the original with a spy story (involving a conspiracy of famous lemons) and the casting of Michael Caine as a British agent….
Brainstorm: This late film noir, from 1965, is one brilliant, twisted movie.
Johnny English Reborn: Rowan Atkinson is a scream in this very funny (though ever so slightly long) spy spoof, with the comedian as an inept MI7 agent. Lots of laughs throughout, including a few big ones. Rated PG
Feature: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Ballet in Two Acts” (2011), “Anti-Nazi Classics: Volume Two” (various dates), “Attack the Block” (2011), “BBC Holiday Comedy” (various dates), “BBC Holiday Drama” (various…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This, quite simply, is the Blu-ray release of the year.
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Yes, we know George Lucas is playing Jedi mind tricks on us again, tinkering further with his landmark films and angering purists. Yes, we know that the newer “prequel” trilogy isn’t as good as…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) A Better Life Actor Demián Bichir is a picture of humility and fear as he portrays an undocumented Mexican immigrant struggling to do right by his teenage son in this drama directed by Chris…