by Richard von Busack
Let me quote Brian Lee O’Malley on the hero of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: “Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying …

SPOLIER WARNING:  If you haven’t seen these films, don’t read this article, because it contains spoilers.  You should have known that already from the title, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Movies are supposed to …

(Opening Friday at
the Sundance Kabuki, SF
AMC Metreon, SF
Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto
CIneArts Santana Row, San Jose
Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley
CineArts 5, Pleasant Hill
Regency 6 Cinemas, San Rafael
Summerfield Cinemas, Santa Rosa)
By Richard von Busack
Portola Valley producer/director Jim Kohlberg, a …

Happy New Year, dear readers!  Hope you had a great holiday season eating turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, candied yams…
Yeah, you’ve got some weight to lose.  But you’ve made the resolution.  You’re going to the …

by Richard von Busack
THE OPENING of the morose and oatmeal-colored Hereafter is an act few films could follow. It’s a flawlessly animated tsunami crashing into a tropical island. When a disaster strikes in a movie, …

Malayalam movies are a staple for all South Indians, especially since the nation of India produces more movies than any other country on Earth.  Malayalam movies, however, are not punctuated with just song and dance …

Though Punjabi movies may not be as popular or as well known as mainstream Bollywood films, they are gaining in popularity each year as Indian cinema branches to new corners of the world.  Many of …

The saddest movies of all time can be a difficult list to conjure since what some viewers find moving, others find sappy and sentimental.  But every so often a film comes along that seems to …

by Richard von Busack
LET’S LEAVE aside the social problem of Facebook as a privacy violator. I’m not up to the depths of tireless radio investigator Dave Emory, who reached for his Foucault when titling a …

by Richard von Busack
OLIVE (Emma Stone) is a high school student in Ojai, population 8,000; her dirty-minded best friend, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka), invites her over for a party, but Olive declines and fibs about having …