Watching short indie films: fun.  Getting drunk with friends: Also fun.  Put the two together, and you’ve got the filmgoing world’s version of chicken and waffles: the Drunken Film Festival (hereafter DrunkenFF)! DrunkenFF returns for a 4th edition after a horrible year of involuntary bar closures.  From October 3-8, 2021,

October on Netflix is a month heavy with new movies and series. Likely to suck a good share of viewer oxygen out of the room will be the streaming service dropping the entire “Seinfeld” series complete and uncut. But for those viewers who want to try something new or something

It’s time for the return of the fall season’s biggest Bay Area film festival.  The Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”)  returns for its 44th edition.  From October 7-17, 2021, festival goers will have opportunities either in-theater or online to enjoy a program filled with a mix of recent festival

Summer may be ending, but Hulu is helping viewers enter the new season with an interesting mix of material.  Premiering this month are new seasons of a biographical series about the Wu-Tang Clan and the animated misadventures of a family who’ve relocated to Alaska.  Will years of struggling through development

Regular Netflix viewers will recognize “Tudum” as the sound made when a Netflix stream begins.  But on September 25, “Tudum” will also be the name of the first global virtual event for fans of the streaming network.  Beginning at 9 AM PT on YouTube, virtual attendees will get to see

“Is it time to forgive Benioff and Weiss for lousing up the final season of ‘Game Of Thrones?’” is probably not the question Netflix hopes viewers will ask about the duo’s debut on the streaming service. But it’s a question that will come up anyway given the high profile talent

Satan worshippers, a couple of 1990s pop culture touchstones, and even a new comedy co-created by Taika Waititi arrive to bring the heat to Hulu viewers’ August. This month’s highlights include a couple of well-received lesbian-themed films, a documentary look at an eventful year for Oakland High School’s senior class,

What if you accidentally discovered a supposedly lost body of animation work? What sort of Kaddish can be given for notorious financial fraudster Bernie Madoff? What political activism can you perform when you develop ALS? The answers to these questions can be found in some of the films offered in this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival