Asher Luberto
What is a movie? Your film studies professor might have limited their definition to "a video moving at 24 frames per second"-- that's the speed to picture ratio that creates the illusion of real-time on screen. Jean-Luc Godard, ...
Renata PoltSan Francisco,
If it's July, it must be the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival—the 39th edition this year. And as always, the festival promises a wide array of feature films, documentaries, shorts, director appearances, and discussions--not ...
Brent Goldman
The build up to the 2019 version of The Lion King seemed to escape the blowback on remakes (especially the Disney variety) of “why?” and “can’t we leave our classics alone?” The marketing plan was as big and epic ...
James Greenberg
Bob Dylan could be a character in a Martin Scorsese movie. A prickly, emotionally complex, slightly shady artist who might be telling you the truth and might not. That’s how Scorsese ...
Asher Luberto
In Ari Aster's "Midsommar," the hills are alive with the sound of music (literally!). The hills of Sweden warp to the hymns of the occult. Fittingly, this sensationally scary sophomore feature warps and stretches you like silly ...
Asher Luberto
When I got home from my 7 o'clock screening, the power in my neighborhood went out. Under normal circumstances this would have been perfectly normal--the product of construction or some over-eager birds. But the screening was for ...
Brent Goldman
**Warning: The following review contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.** Welcome back to the MCU. Just as a reminder we’re living in a post Captain America and Tony Stark world. And while much of the world is ...
Asher Luberto
"If you're going to San Francisco/be sure to wear flowers in your hair" the song goes. The reality is, if you're going to San Francisco make sure you can pay the rent. But not everybody can pay ...
Brent Goldman
When Toy Story 4 was first announced, a vocal group on Twitter seemed to all say the same thing…”why?” The third installment wrapped things up so nicely and seemed like a perfect note, was Toy ...
Asher Luberto
There's a lot of late nights in "Late Night," a comedy about talk show hosts. Late nights be damned, this film is undeniably woke. A humorously hyper-verbal and deeply genuine look at women finding their voice in a man's ...
