Dear Broke-Ass Reader, This writer’s digest of the upcoming month’s offerings on Netflix and Hulu has been interrupted by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike. This interruption will continue until the strike is resolved, hopefully in the WGA’s favor.   To understand why this action was taken, this nice summation

As old school “Sesame Street” announcers would have said, May’s Hulu programming is brought to you by the letter “C.”  In this case, that letter stands for concerts (Elton John, U2’s Bono & The Edge), classics (Meryl Streep as a Holocaust survivor, Robert De Niro as a Jewish gangster), cult

What, we can’t just say “the new season of Tim Robinson’s hilariously weird series ‘I Think You Should Leave’ arrives this month, that’s all you need to know about Netflix this May?”  Oh, all right.  Robinson’s off-kilter humor might not amuse everyone.  Fortunately, this month is packed with other entertaining

For those who don’t know, the San Francisco International Film Festival (or “SFFILM” for short) began back in 1957.  The 2023 edition of the festival is thus called “SFFILM 66.”  This year’s edition runs from April 13-23, 2023. Help Celebrate North America’s Oldest Continuous Film Festival Over its long history,

For those needing entertainment after March showers, Hulu in April offers some nifty book adaptations.  They include Mary Harron’s cult classic p*ss-take on “acceptable” male behavior, a floundering writer’s life-changing advice columnist experience, and a weaponizing of sexism to bring down a Mafia branch.   A couple of documentaries showing this

For seekers of more intentional entertainment on Netflix, this month has a trio of promising women in politics dramas, one of which stars Keri Russell in the lead role.  A new season of science fiction actioner “Sweet Tooth” makes a long-awaited return.  And because foiling Nazis (or their modern day

Apologies are definitely in order for those readers who wanted earlier notice of what’s coming up this quarter at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (hereafter BAMPFA).  For those who wanted to see the Andy Warhol rarity “My Hustler,” for example, they’ll just need to hope for another

Hulu’s March 300-pound gorilla event is of course this year’s Academy Awards ceremony and the associated programs bracketing that event.  Frankly, this writer would love Michelle Yeoh to win the Best Actress Award for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” if only to give racist Hollywood casting directors a public middle