Peter Wong

27 Dec 2023

All The Great Stuff Coming To Hulu In January 2024

It’s a new year for Hulu viewers, and 2024 kicks off with a little bit of everything.  There’s a well-known musical starring Patrick Swayze as a working-class dance instructor. True crime fans can learn the chilling tale of the Mormon Manson’s cult. Marvel’s newest mini-series follows a former Kingpin enforcer

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07 Dec 2023

All The Cool Titles On Netflix In December 2023

Hooray, the SAG-AFTRA membership has voted to ratify their new contract!  This strike is officially over.  As an added bit of karmic justice, Netflix, who’s part of SAG-AFTRA’s opposite number the AMPTP, is dealing with the fallout of foolishly handing over $55 million to a director who failed to produce

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04 Dec 2023

All The Cool Stuff Coming To Hulu In December 2023

Hi, we’re tentatively back!  For those who just came in, as this column tries to be a labor solidarity space, it went on voluntary hiatus in support of the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) strike to get the members of the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to

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04 Dec 2023

Another Hole In The Head Film Festival Turns 20!

Ghost stories are just as much a part of winter celebrations as online website visits to buy holiday presents.  This year’s Another Hole In The Head (hereafter AHITH) marks the 20th such run up to Christmas (December 1-25) with another batch of ghost stories, horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime drama,

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01 Nov 2023

SFFILM’s Doc Stories 2023: #MeToo, Soccer, and More

Want to groove to the music of Little Richard and Jon Batiste?  How about pumping your fist in the air as the predecessors of Brandi Chastain and Megan Rapinoe score goals?  Or why not get your mind blown by the art of Germany’s greatest living contemporary artist?  All these experiences

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11 Oct 2023

The Green Film Festival Of San Francisco is Here!

Who says the joy of shouting “Soylent Green is people” moments before Charlton Heston opens his mouth is a lost theater-going pleasure?  Thanks to the folks at this year’s Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film SF”), the Charlton Heston-starring science fiction tale set in the awful overpopulated

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04 Oct 2023

Your Preview Of The 46th Mill Valley Film Festival

Fall brings the return of one of the S.F. Bay Area’s biggest and best film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”).  Now in its 46th edition, MVFF runs theatrically from October 5-15, 2023 and streams online from October 16-22, 2023.  The festival will show 148 films from 41

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28 Aug 2023

4-Star Theater To Host Martin Scorsese Non-Gangster Film Retrospective

Director Martin Scorsese has helmed such gangster films as “Goodfellas,” “The Departed,” and “The Irishman.”  But just because he’s done films about organized crime does not mean he deserves to be known only as a director of gangster films.  If the upcoming adaptation of “Killers Of The Flower Moon” does

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