I Am Not Okay With This Rated TV-MA If Stephen King is your spirit animal, watch I Am Not Okay With This. Hear me out. I was recently reading (OK, re-reading) Stephen King’s book about writing. A large part of the book involves his journey to becoming, well, Stephen King—and…
The 21st annual Sacramento Jewish Film Festival returns to the Crest Theatre (1013 K St.) with a four-day showcase of films and discussions on Feb. 19, 20, 22 and 23. Throughout the days, different films will be covering people like Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the famous Holocaust survivor…
The evolution of John Waters from underground film anarchist and good taste-demolition expert to eccentric memoirist and elder statesman of American pop art has been a long and gradual one. And it’s more shocking than ever today. Pink Flamingos, his rough-hewn 1972 classic, remains a challenge to intestinal fortitude that…
If you’ve ever thought about making a list of the most prolific people ever, then Boots Riley isn’t a bad place to start. You can place him somewhere between Stephen King—who has authored 61 novels and hundreds of short stories in addition to spending time on music, philanthropy and rage-tweeting…
Halloween may be several months in the rearview, but the horizon is pretty spooky at screenings of locally written and produced horror film, Apparition. The film is based on Preston Castle in Ione, California, which once served as a home for troubled youth from 1890–1960 (when it was vacated). The…
The Crocker Art Museum (216 O St.) is full of pictures, each worth a thousand words apiece—far more than the old-time films in their new Silent Film Series, starting on Thursday, Feb. 6. Before each film, moviegoers will be taken on a docent-led tour of the Crocker’s private collections, with…
From my perch in the upper right corner of the theater this Friday last, I surveyed the matinee audience for an opening day screening of 1917. As one might expect, it was a largely grey-haired crowd, typified by a middle-aged woman who turned the corner of the entryway only to…
Ask Michael Carbonaro if he’s a magician, a comedian or an actor and he’ll cop to the fact that he’s not really sure. But he also doesn’t care, so long as he’s entertaining people—a calling he’s heard since he was a child. On his TruTV show, The Carbonaro Effect, he…
Sit back, relax and let the nostalgia take you on a wild, funny and entertaining trip back to the ‘90s when you catch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live at the Harris Center (10 College Parkway) in Folsom on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Join the creator and original host Joel Hodgson…
Brandon Vedder’s newly released film, Strange Negotiations, is in a way neither particularly strange nor in any way a negotiation. Quite the opposite, in fact. What it is instead is magnificently unpolished and relentless in its examination of David Bazan, formerly (and… surprise, currently—but the film will get into that)…
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