The summer movies preview: A quick look-see at upcoming cinematic offerings
It’s almost summer—so let the parade of blockbuster-movie wannabes begin! The following is but a smattering of the films coming your way over the next…
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Bad building: Zazie Beetz proves she’s great at bloody action in ‘They Will Kill You’
Zazie Beetz (Atlanta and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die) gets to go full-on Uma/The Bride in They Will Kill You, the English-language debut of Russian director Kirill…
Bad pasts: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are a fantastic onscreen couple—who will make you very uncomfortable in ‘The Drama’
Wedding-week jitters of the worst and most nuclear kind are at the center of The Drama, a darkly funny and unhappy movie in which Zendaya and…
Where are the sharks? ‘Deep Water’ looks and sounds cheap—and the acting is bad, too
Director Renny Harlin, maker of the camp-classic shark thriller Deep Blue Sea, goes back to the well for another serving of shark mayhem with Deep Water. In…
A true cinema event: ‘Project Hail Mary’ is the epic sci-fi-charmer movie theaters needed
All hail Project Hail Mary, a rousingly wonderful, beautifully strange sci-fi epic with Ryan Gosling and an enchanting pile of rocks at its center. Directors Phil…
Bloody good: Bob Odenkirk kicks yet more ass as a small-town sheriff in ‘Normal’
Bob Odenkirk continues his later-career transformation into an unorthodox action hero with Normal, a bloody small-town action thriller that gives him plenty of asses to…
Heart to Art with Joha Harrison
Joha Harrison has spent the past decade photographing the street, but it all started with some giant grapes “There was a store where I grew…
Fighting for Family
BY EDGAR SANCHEZ Three years ago, Lan Nguyen, then a UCLA grad student, needed a subject for her Master’s Thesis in Asian American Studies. Rather…
Reeling in
SN&R attempts to bring back a fan favorite section, to middling reviews. You asked for it, we delivered. After countless emails, phone calls and letters…
Essay: Making movies
City’s first film commissioner wants to make Sacramento a production destination By Jennifer West One of my favorite childhood memories is going to see a…
Drinkin' at the movies – Tower Theatre to soon add beer and wine to snack bar
Photo courtesy of Greg Brown Those who like both adult beverages and good movies (me!) wil be…