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Husband-wife filmmakers take on Riggs-King tennis battle
By on September 22, 2017
It might have been easy to make a typical good-girl-vs.-bad-guy movie version of the 1973 “battle of the sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. But husband-and-wife »

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Jake Gyllenhaal finds laughs in ‘Stronger’s’ bomb survivor story
By on September 22, 2017
Like many Americans, Jake Gyllenhaal experienced a range of emotions upon seeing the close-up photo of a rattled Jeff Bauman being wheeled to an ambulance moments after the Boston Marathon »

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Films opening Friday, Sept. 22, 2017
By on September 22, 2017
Battle of the Sexes: In 1973, 55-year-old “chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs challenges top women’s pro Billie Jean King, 29, to a tennis match that captivated the world while each deals »

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‘Brad’s Status’ a touching midlife crisis comedy
By on September 22, 2017
“Brad’s Status” is both a Mike White film and a Ben Stiller film, and a winning combination that turns out to be. The movie centers on a self-pitying, privileged white »

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‘Force’ an impressive inside look at Oakland police
By on September 15, 2017
“The Force” chronicles the efforts of the Oakland Police Department to reform itself in the period following the events of Ferguson and coinciding with the rise of the Black Lives »

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For dumb and confusing action, try ‘American Assassin’
By on September 15, 2017
Adding the word “American” to a movie title — though it frequently works wonders — is not always a guarantee that the film in question will seem important or even »

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Local filmmakers in spotlight at ninth Cine+Mas festival
By on September 14, 2017
The ninth Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival showcasing works from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba, Peru and the U.S., opens Friday »

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Burns, Novick doc looks at Vietnam War from all sides
By on September 14, 2017
There’s been nothing yet like “The Vietnam War,” the new 10-part, 18-hour documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick airing on KQED starting on Sunday. “No one »

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