Horror with a Cause
The New Zealand film ‘Mārama’ addresses ancestral trauma among Māori characters, using the horror genre effectively.
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Santa Barbara Summer Movie Mania
Summer movie specials are back at the Courthouse and Camino Real Cinemas with special outdoor movies at the zoo.
Film Review | To Tune or Not to Tune
Daniel Roher’s ‘Tuner’ is a unique kind of thriller, casting an eye on the rarified world of the piano tuner, and the expressive power of sound.
One Space Battle After Another
Action trumps story in ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’, but Baby Yoda oozes charm.
Heartbreak Hotel
The haunted hotel genre is keenly tapped and rebooted in the Adam Scott-starring ‘Hokum’.
Documentary ‘The Man Who Saves the World?’ Profiles a Character Unlike Any We’ve Seen Before
Filmmaker Gabe Polsky joins SBIFF’s Roger Durling for a post-screening conversation.
St. Michael’s World Conquest
“Michael” is a selective biopic that presents former “local artist” Michael Jackson as a princely, untarnished hero, with his father as the über-villain.
Putting the Art in Artifice, and Vice Versa
‘The Christophers’, the latest in Steven Soderbergh’s prolific output, is an artworldly cat-and-mouse game and an Ian McKellen showcase.
On the Far Side of Normal
‘Normal’ fits neatly in the post-‘Fargo’ niche of film genres, where things seriously go bump in the night of small-town America.
‘Cowboy Meditations’Explores Poet Dick Gibford’s Work
The film records a working life at the vast Reyes Ranch in Santa Barbara County’s remote Cuyama region.
