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Film Review: Austenland 23 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
No sense and no sensibility: Jane Austen as uninspired rom-com With Austenland, first-time director Jerusha Hess (one half of the husband/wife team that wrote Napoleon Dynamite) has turned Shannon Hal...
Part One of the Spinning Platters Interview: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost of The World’s End 22 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Tomorrow sees the U.S. release of The World’s End, the third film in a so-called trilogy of films from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting around a ...
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 8/22/13-8/28/13 22 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
School is back in session soon, right? So you should go out and enjoy some shows before you have to return to the old grind! Thursday, August 22nd Roky Erickson, Cellar Doors at Great American Music H...
Show Review: Best Coast with Bleached at The Fillmore, 8/16/13 20 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
San Francisco has been feuding with Los Angeles for as long as both cities have been in existence. San Franciscans are pretty much disgusted by everything LA has to offer. Somehow, Best Coast have man...
Reflections on the 18th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival: The Sound (And Seasons) of Silence 19 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
The intoxicating, nostalgic scent of freshly popped, earthy corn merging with the salty richness of melting butter permeating the air is a familiar movie theatre setting. At the Castro Theatre in San ...
Film Review: Jobs 17 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
“Jobs” is uninspired and constantly misses the mark…unlike Steve Jobs. Most of us know about Apple, Inc. If you were born in the early 80s, you may even remember many of the corporate controversies, ...
Outside Lands 2013 Journal, Day 3: Sunday, August 11th 17 Aug 2013 | 05:12 am
Sunday. The sabbath. And, of course, I believe in the church of rock n roll. And I believe that I kept the day as holy as could be. Of course, since Hall & Oates showed up, it really couldn’t happen a...
Outside Lands 2013 Journal, Day 2: Saturday, August 10th 17 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
Day 2. A day that will live in infamy. Today I got to see my favorite local band play massive stage, my favorite band in high school make an epic comeback, and the greatest rap group of the last 20 ye...
Film Review: Kick-Ass 2 16 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
Kick-Ass is back, and this time he’s (too) serious. 2010’s Kick-Ass had a refreshingly original tone — including a hard-on for depicting severe violent repercussions within a completely unrealistic co...
Film Review: Europa Report 16 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
To boldly go where everyone has gone before: Mediocre sci-fi film delivers nothing new In his new film Europa Report, Ecuadorian director Sebastian Cordero tries his hand at cinema verité science fict...
