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Who Wore It Better? High Fashion Satire: ‘Boosters’ vs. ‘Prada 2’
In the late 1990s, the films The Truman Show (1998) and EDtv (1999) were noted for their uncannily similar...
Scene: the 29th Annual Sonoma International Film Fest
Every spring, a curious transformation overtakes the otherwise tranquil wine country burg of Sonoma.Â
Restaurants buzz, wine flows, and the...
Emotional Oasis: Oliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’ opens in Bay Area
There are films that entertain, films that distract and films that politely flatter one’s intelligence. And then there are...
Empathy Machines. Can Films Increase Compassion?
Screenwriter Will Tracy is nominated for an Oscar for his script for the film Bugonia, released in theaters last...
‘Tight & Nerdy,’ Burlesque Meets Weird Al Onscreen
Burlesque sometimes makes for strange bedfellows—a Star Wars-themed performance is an annual local favorite, for example. But something weirder...
Frankenstein’s Miss, Guillermo del Toro Blew His ChanceÂ
Guillermo del Toro, the director of the latest of many Hollywood adaptations of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein, has...
See/Say, Communication via Cinema
It’s hard to say what we feel, right? Hard to find the right words, and sometimes harder still to...
