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By Malik Adán | November 2017

Here in the Bay Area, “tech” is at once a culture, an industry and for some, a way of life. In its…

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Here in the Bay Area, “tech” is at once a culture, an industry and for some, a way of life. In its most recent form, tech focuses on the constant...

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Fan of magic? I mean real-fake magic. That close-up card magic. Richard Turner is one of the world’s best card mechanics. He can shuffle a single deck of...

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Writer/director Heather Fink knows she’s on shaky ground making a body swap movie because it’s been done to death. She acknowledges this by callbacks...

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In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, and subsequent creative types ousted for lewd behavior, The Light of the Moon couldn’t feel any...

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(Reviewer’s note: I caught The Florida Project as part of the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival’s opening night event. The 28th edition of the fest...

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Third time’s the charm. It’s not that the first two Thor movies were bad. They were films that took themselves a little too seriously. Instead, Thor:...

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In Groundhog Day, Phil (Bill Murray) lives the same day over and over again thanks to some mysterious unknown force. But for Sherry Graham (Caroline...

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Seeing movies at festivals is almost an entirely different experience than watching them regularly at home or your local theater. For example, after about...

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While Harmony Korine’s Gummo took place in possibly the worst part of Ohio and a horrific section of the director’s brain, the recent Dayveon - set in...

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Sometimes you eat Coq au Vin and sometimes corn dogs at the fair. You can’t really compare them, both have their own delights. Let’s compare corn dogs...

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