Film

Poet Donté Clark saw his hometown of Richmond, California, as a city at war. Richmond was split in a turf battle between rivaling gangs, and shootings were a nightly occurrence. However, Clark thought he’d be able to at least open up a dialog between his city’s warring factions, and found…

The Post is a too-close-for-comfort, but arguably brilliant, American docudrama that knowingly parallels political events from the past 14 months. If you watch television, use social media, tune in to a particular news station or utilize the web, the events portrayed in this film may be eerily familiar. The Post,…

For the month of December, the Crest invites you to come on down for a huge, steaming helping of nostalgia. The venerable theater has been screening beloved holiday movies throughout the month, and you still have a chance to catch a few heavy hitters of seasonal cheer in the coming…

“Do I look like I’m from Sacramento?” begins Lady Bird, the film that marks the directorial debut of Sacramento native Greta Gerwig. Despite the protagonist’s deepest convictions that Sacramento is only worth it if you have a house in the Fab 40s, Lady Bird is one of the most beautiful…

Reboots and sequels, amiright? We’re gonna be seeing a lot of them in the next few years. Dirty Dancing, Drop Dead Fred, Pet Sematary, The NeverEnding Story, Clue, The Birds, Police Academy, Scarface and Gremlins are all either in preproduction or production. Twenty first century America is a manifestation of…

I was so excited to see Darren Aronofsky’s mother!; not only because I love his nuanced style and heavy reliance on dream logic, but because people I respected like The Atlantic’s Christopher Orr were writing some really mean reviews of the film. I just figured they didn’t appreciate what I…

I went into the theater with a sense of nervous apprehension that can only be ascribed to a transplanted Southerner. I didn’t know much about Logan Lucky other than a few keywords: “NASCAR,” “heist” and “Channing Tatum.” Oh, brother. Could it be yet another movie depicting a bunch of good…

In a time of growing political instability the world over, the line between reality and doomsday Vaudeville has become increasingly blurred here at home. Scientific facts of life are one such blurred line, with things known by obvious physical laws of nature being both outwardly attacked and inwardly denied by…

After premiering to rave reviews and selling out dozens of screenings in the Bay Area, director Corbett Redford’s documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk is screening right here in Sacramento for one night only this Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, at Crest Theatre. Pulling from nearly 200…

One of Northern California’s top professional theatre companies, Sacramento’s very own B Street Theatre, recently announced a creative new way to get butts in seats and to engage with even more community members interested in the performing arts. The “B-Flex Membership,” which B Street called “the Netflix of theatre” in…