Bored Stiff, a pioneering San Francisco hip-hop collective, was celebrated at the Roxie Theater with the premiere of Sounds Like My Life, a documentary about the group’s history and influence on the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene.

If you have ever wondered who is killing local journalism in your area, there’s a decent chance it’s a hedge fund called Alden Global Capital. Over the last 15 years, this predatory firm has become known as the ‘grim reaper’ of local journalism. If you drove past the iconic Oakland

Running from November 2-3, 2024, the Roxie Theater in collaboration with CiNEOLA presents the fifth annual Colombia On Film series.  Co-presenters for this series are Rox Cine and the Colombian Consulate of San Francisco. 

The festival’s name comes from the Fraenkel Gallery, the venerable Geary Boulevard gallery whose exhibitions explore “photography and its relation to other media.”  This year, the gallery celebrates its 45th anniversary by doing this fundraiser festival at the Roxie. 

Could the Golden Age of Hollywood classic “The Wizard Of Oz” be the Rosetta Stone cinemagoers need to truly understand the films of David Lynch?  The Roxie Theater’s summer film series “You’re Not In Kansas Any More” gives interested viewers the opportunity to test this contention.  Running from June 9,

But Ha and Yi’s documentary isn’t just the story of how Lee got royally screwed by the S.F. criminal justice system.  It’s also the story of the movement that arose to clear Lee’s name and get him out of prison.  In this pan-Asian community movement (which also included members of the Black community), leftist Asian college radicals worked with conservative Korean grandmothers to seek justice for Lee.

This may be a strange way to start an article about the joy of watching movies, but I’m not a film buff. I’m big into music, videos games and books, but I tend to fidget when watching a feature film. Whenever someone would invite me to go to a movie

If you’re a fan of cinema or just love this old theater, you’ll enjoy seeing the short doc about the Roxie reopening after 434 days of closure.  The Roxie is San Francisco’s longest running movie theater, it’s been playing “pictures” since 1911. This heartfelt little doc about the reopening of