Oakland Hump! Part Deux: Electric Booga-ewwww Hump! Shows we have much to learn from each other, but is at its best when it challenges its audience's assumptions, not the strength of its stomach Frederick Noland 16 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland Warmth and Wit at Summer Camp Is there anything more joyful for the mind than a coming-of-age summer camp movie? “The Floaters” hits that nostalgia button hard. Vita Hewitt 6 Aug 2025 · 2 min read
Oakland Going for Gold Daveed Diggs awarded for “Freedom of Expression”, latest love story screened. Sarah Bass 5 Aug 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Romcom Turns Dark Sophie Brooks’ “Oh, Hi” takes some sharp turns, making for an unhinged genre experiment. Vita Hewitt 29 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland It’s All for the Children Legacy is everything: Justin Schein’s documentary looks at generational wealth, economic inequality, and his father. Sarah Bass 25 Jul 2025 · 2 min read
New Haven Film Fest Spotlights Assisted Suicide, Welcomes Protest Sandra Luckow's "Vanishing" follows writer Cat Emmons' final six months as she battled ALS. Jisu Sheen 9 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland HUMP! Not-so-Amateur Film Fest Hits 20 Dan Savage's amateur porn film festival “HUMP!” played four sold out nights at the New Parkway Theater. I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to the last show. Frederick Noland 10 Apr 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland Gray in Black-and-White Coleen Gray graced the big screen back-to-back for night two of this year’s Noir City film festival. Jeff Kaliss 6 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Oakland A Cold Open, A Cool Close Noir never sleeps, nor does it nap: matineé double header took criminal women to new (old) heights. Sarah Bass 5 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Raymond Burr Brings the Heat as a Heavy Noir City coverage continues: “Raw Deal” gives its follow-up film a shove. Frederick Noland 2 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
Oakland Shadows and Subversion Noir City 22 kicked off Friday evening with "The Narrow Margin" and “Hell’s Half Acre,” sets a strong tone for the festival. Vita Hewitt 29 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
Oakland Noir and Gnawa: Unforeseen Surprises Surprises just kept piling up on the second day of the ten-day Noir City 22 film festival. Agustín Maes 28 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows The only thing more spectacular than Wing Bowl itself might be the Wing Bowl movie. Nora Grace-Flood 29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Drunk on Film(s) Drunken Film Fest Oakland strikes again. Shorts from near and far served up with your favorite brews. Sarah Bass 23 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Reel Twisted: Forging Community Through Film In 2021, Tulsa added two much-needed film festivals to its CV: the all-online Greenwood Film Festival, which debuted in the midst of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre... Cassidy McCants 11 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Double Feature: Jewish Film Fest In Town A Photographic Memory and Under the Shadow of the Sun 44th SF Jewish Film Fest Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre 4186 Piedmont Ave, Oakland July 18-August 4, 2024 Just two of Sarah Bass 7 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa Horror Hounds At The Art House Cinema: It’s The Graveyard Shift Slumber Party Graveyard Shift Slumber Party: Neon Slime Circle Cinema Tulsa July 6, 2024 “Furiosa Edges Garfield in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995.” Whenever I’m doompilled over World War 3, Mitch Gilliam 14 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Chicago Keeping It Reel In Chicago La battaglia di Algeri Music Box Theatre 3/24/24 Chicago may not be the first place that aspiring megastars think to showcase their talents on the silver screen, but Stacey Peters 25 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
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