Slamdance 2025, the indie film alternative to Sundance 2025, is a far different creature from previous editions of the festival.  This year’s edition started at a different time than this year’s Sundance.  Whereas Sundance 2025 has already come and gone, this year’s Slamdance opened its festivities on February 20, 2025

The Orange Felon may wave his allegedly massive tool to cancel Black History Month celebrations via executive order all he wants.  His easily hurt fee-fees don’t change the truth that Black excellence is worth celebrating in February (and every other month of the year, frankly).  Fortunately, Hulu’s February offerings ignore

The San Francisco Independent Film Festival (S.F. IndieFest) is back for its 27th edition, featuring 80 new feature-length and short films with an independent bent. The festival will run from February 6 to 18, 2025, with most screenings at the Roxie Theater and a few co-presented screenings at the Vogue Theater.

Netflix offers a range of romantic and non-romantic titles for February, including reality dating shows, K-horror classics, and films exploring themes of love, family, and environmental activism.

Cringing at yet another media outlet or prominent billionaire publicly falling over themself to bend their knee to the future Felon-In-Chief? Tired of yet another supposed political opponent to the Orange Fascist and his hordes rationalizing their political spinelessness? Then feed your fighting spirit by attending the upcoming Resistance Film Festival! Running

Ready to greet 2025 with a loud “Meh?”  Hulu’s January offerings will put you in the mood to do so.  Admittedly a couple of the month’s highlights jump easily over the bar set by “Manos: The Hands Of Fate.”   One such highlight is a docuseries about a young attractive Christian

No, January’s change in the White House’s occupancy is not the reason why Netflix scheduled director Lars von Trier’s acclaimed take on the end-of-the-world genre.  It’s also a coincidence that this month sees the premiere of a Norwegian biopic about their country’s greatest World War II hero, one who fought

BAMPFA’s Winter 2024 film series offers a range of films that challenge the lies of the authoritarian kakistocracy, including documentaries on climate change, human sexuality, and the struggles of indigenous pastoralists, as well as a series on the work of documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa.