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Foot Fisted at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Posted on May 13, 2008
Tune in this week as Murphy Hooker rocks out at the famed Roosevelt Hotel for the premier of comedy The Foot Fist Way.
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In Search of the Gonzo Godfather’s Secret Underground Lair
Posted on May 6, 2008
This week, the San Francisco International Film Fest pays filmic homage to literary hero Hunter S. Thompson.
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Why Do Summer Movies Suck So Hard?
Posted on April 29, 2008
Here's Murphy's sardonic guide to avoiding the summer movie stinkers.
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Godard’s Contempt is A Cool Flickering Ghost
Posted on April 22, 2008
Enjoy Godard’s delicious big budget extravaganza Contempt when it plays at the Castro Theatre May 9-15.
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Norah Jones Pigs Out and Dies of a Broken Heart
Posted on April 15, 2008
Wong Kar Wai’s latest My Blueberry Nights is post-beat moody romance road movie with lots of cool brooding characters getting kicked in the head by love.
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Peter Sellers Knows How to Party
Posted on April 8, 2008
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of unlikely comedy hit The Party, staring the late, great Peter Sellers.
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MRF Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Posted on April 1, 2008
This week, come to the Castro Theatre for some cinematic gold at the United Artists film event.
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Born In A Crossfire Hurricane, That Explains It …
Posted on March 18, 2008
This week, Murphy takes a tumultuous walk down memory lane with Gimme Shelter.
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Murphy's Film Picks
Posted on March 13, 2008
Check out some of these groovy film picks happening in your 'hood.
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Gene Wilder Has An Enormous Schwanzstucker, Voof!
Posted on March 11, 2008
This week Murphy gets mad scientist-crazy with monster movie spoof Young Frankenstein.
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BOGDO: One Cool Mo-Fo at the Castro
Posted on March 4, 2008
I urge you to check out auteur Peter Bodganovich's oeuvre if you have any taste in your cinematic palate.
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Woody Allen’s Such A Cassandra
Posted on February 12, 2008
Trust your cinematic filter, Woody Allen's Cassandra’s Dream is better than 90 percent of the crap filling theaters today.
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They Shoot Oil Men, Don’t They?
Posted on February 5, 2008
Nominated for the Best Picture of 2007, There Will Be Blood is an epic shocker that shows you how the West was really won.
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Mad Movies of the 1970s
Posted on January 29, 2008
Check out mad prophet Peter Finch in Network, the movie that inspired a movement.
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No Happy Endings in Noir City
Posted on January 22, 2008
Come to the SF Film Noir Fest, where organizers promise 20 films and no happy endings.
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Going Deep on North Dallas Forty
Posted on January 15, 2008
In between playoff games, rent North Dallas Forty, a bawdy tale about a former Dallas Cowboy.
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Fear and Loathing On the ’08 Campaign Trail
Posted on January 8, 2008
What does Poppa H do when he's been blacklisted from Sundance? Hit the 2008 campaign trail.
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Caught Red-Handed Stealing Santa’s Sleigh
Posted on December 27, 2007
You’re stuffed to the gills, but my top five movies of '07 are so damn good, you have to try a taste …
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Javier Bardem Is the Ultimate Bad Ass
Posted on December 18, 2007
If you can’t get up for the Coen Boys' gut-wrenching thriller No Country for Old Men then you’re in bed with the wrong blogger friend.
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Punk Rocker Diablo Cody Does It All … And Then Some
Posted on December 11, 2007
Juno is a subversive comedy written by punk rock "It" girl Diablo Cody.
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John C. Reilly Is a Ham without Equal
Posted on November 27, 2007
Walk Hard: The Story of Dewey Cox is a ridiculously awesome spoof of musical biopics that will leave your funny bone in rehab.
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Wind Power
Posted on November 20, 2007
by Heidi Heilig
The Kite Runner takes flight.
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An Outsider’s Journey Into the Realms of the Unreal
Posted on November 13, 2007
In the Realms of the Unreal, is a documentary from SF’s-own Jessica Yu about the life of the greatest self-taught “outsider” artist of the 20th century.
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Steely Dan
Posted on September 20, 2007
by Leilani Labong
Talk to SF's most prolific novelist and you'll find that she's also the soul of brevity.
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