Much like looking for real information past the Orange Skull’s tweets, finding worthwhile films in 2019 which were more than another sequel or a by-the-numbers remake was difficult but not impossible.  The Roxie Theatre and Netflix proved particularly useful venues
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Prologue   A more qualitatively accurate but far longer title would lead to this writer’s murder by harried Beyond Chron staff, so shorter but somewhat inaccurate it is.  Honesty compels inserting a note that several highly praised films such as
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Besides genre films, Another Hole In The Head Film Festival often finds films that skillfully break social and cultural prejudices.  One such prejudice involves sexual desire in senior citizens. It’s presumed such desire doesn’t matter much when a person gets
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Vinnie Ann Bose’s animated short “What’s Your Brown Number?” gives colorism in Indian society a well-deserved mocking. The titular number refers to how darkly brown a particular Indian’s skin is.  Darker skin means possessing a higher brown number. But a
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Richard Levien, “Collisions”’ writer/director, is of average height and build, at least in his mid-40s, and possessed of dark blonde hair.  What strikes a person on talking to this New Zealand immigrant is his politeness. He doesn’t use courtesy as
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Whatever feelings a person may have about the Chinese government’s machinery of dissention repression, its effectiveness in obstructing political naysaying can’t be denied.  The Great Firewall of China blocks Chinese Internet users from easily accessing information about their government’s brutal
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Ken Loach’s new film “Sorry We Missed You” delivers a quietly chilling study in slow death by capitalism.  Delivery driver Ricky and elder homecare worker Abby just want to better their family’s lives. But they’re unaware the gig economy system
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“Push,” “The River And The Wall” and “16 Sunrises” “Squat!  Squat! F**k the rich greedhead a**holes!” is definitely not a normal audience member reaction at the San Francisco Green Film Festival (hereafter SFGFF).  However, the 9th SFGFF’s Opening Night Film
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