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True stories reclaim past glories - The Voice of San Francisco

November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Among the recent spate of movies inspired by true stories, #NouvelleVague & #PeterHujarsDay stand out as unique glimpses of significant times, places & people. I elaborate in my latest film column for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social: #SFBAFCC thevoicesf.org/true-stories...

If a movie released in recent times isn’t a mega-budget thrill ride derived from an action, science fiction, or fantasy franchise, it might be an adaptation of a best-selling young-adult romance novel...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More on The Mark Thompson Show 11-7-25

November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

The Blast is afire with laudable movies to review on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with guest host #MoKelly! I cover #Predator: #Badlands #DieMyLove #Christy #Nuremberg #SentimentalValue #PeterHujarsDay & #LittleAmelie & more: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/5UTydMt_q5c?...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More with Mark Thompson 10 31 25

November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

#Halloween brings a spooky #CultureBlast to @TheMTS.bsky.social on YouTube with my #MovieReviews of #NouvelleVague #Anniversary #HallowRoad & #BalladOfASmallPlayer, kudos for TV's #TheLowdown & #Task, shade thrown at the autocrats & more: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social
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Getting lowdown and dirty to solve crime - The Voice of San Francisco

October 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

With two new movies now in theaters, #EthanHawke takes a break from the big screen to star as a scruffy investigative journalist in #TheLowdown, a TV series rife with intrigue, secrets & murder. I give the lowdown on the show in my column for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social:
thevoicesf.org/getting-lowd...

In the age of prestige television, several high-profile movie actors are signing up to star in shows that depict a flawed representative of the law or a freelance do-gooder trying to solve a case whil...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More with Mark Thompson 10 24 25

October 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

I can't restrain myself from bringing new #MovieReviews to @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube. I evaluate #Bugonia #Springsteen: #DeliverMeFromNowhere #AHouseOfDynamite #Hedda & #RegrettingYou & talk #Warriors, #ConstellationClub & more: #SFBAFCC @TheVOSF.bsky.social
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Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More on The Mark Thompson Show 10-17-25

October 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

I link into @TheMTS.bsky.social on YouTube with Kim McCallister, review the movies #Frankenstein #BlackPhone2 #BlueMoon #TheMastermind #Grow #ItWasJustAnAccident & #JohnCandy: #ILikeMe & talk #NoKings @MusicCitySF.bsky.social & #NewWaveCity: #SFBAFCC
@TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/uH0gHEsqwgE?...

Finding an ephemeral home in Fairyland - The Voice of San Francisco

October 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Based on Alysia Abbott's memoir of growing up as the daughter of a gay single dad in San Francisco during the ’70s & ’80s, #Fairyland comes to the screen with an unerring sense of time & place. I commend the movie as astute & heartbreaking in @TheVoiceSF.bsky.org: thevoicesf.org/finding-an-e...

In 1967, the Summer of Love heralded some particularly progressive and turbulent years for San Francisco as thousands of young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in search of a counte...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More on The Mark Thompson Show 10-10-25

October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Mo' better Blast in effect on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with Kim McCallister. I cover #TronAres #Roofman #AfterTheHunt #IfIHadLegsIdKickYou #Urchin #Steve & #Fairyland, TV's #ThePaper & #Smoke & the #NobelPrize & #SuperBowl: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/gbeH5D1fNmQ?...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More with Mark Thompson 10-3-25

October 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

October fests begin & I highlight some of the fun on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with reviews of #TheSmashingMachine #Anemone #BoneLake #GoodBoy #Coyotes & #Orwell: 2+2=5 & hype for #HardlyStrictlyBluegrass #BootieMashup & #MillValleyFilmFestival: @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/UYryDREKzQo?...

Sibling conflict and songs hit the streets of S.F. - The Voice of San Francisco

October 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Ari & Ethan Gold dramatize their filial relationship in #BrotherVersesBrother, an intimate urban odyssey with music getting its Cali premiere at the #MillValleyFilmFestival. I hail the Gold brotherhood & their movie in my latest column for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social:
thevoicesf.org/sibling-conf...

It’s hard to imagine a more quintessentially San Francisco movie than the consistently entertaining, brutally honest, often amusing, and ultimately moving Brother Verses Brother, an hour-and-a-half-lo...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More with Mark Thompson 9-26-25

September 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Culture Blast welcomes the #HighHolyDays on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with reviews of #OneBattleAfterAnother #EleanorTheGreat #DeadOfWinter #TheLostBus #AllOfYou & #SchoolForLove & kudos for TV's #MarvelZombies & #SlowHorses: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/HylSBE2-ug4?...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More with Mark Thompson 9-19-25

September 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Wishing a "Sha-Na-Na Tova" to all the Jewish rock & rollers! #ShanaTova

September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

A titanic Blast upends @TheMTS.bsky.social on YouTube with my #MovieReviews of #Him #ABigBoldBeautifulJourney #Swiped #TheSummerBook #Plainclothes #LondonCalling & #WaltzingWithBrando plus remarks on all-time favorite films, #JimmyKimmel & more: @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social
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An aristocratic TV saga finds closure at the movies - The Voice of San Francisco

September 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Serve the tea & scones! Writing in @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social, I tip my bowler to #DowntonAbbey: #TheGrandFinale, the last film in the saga of an aristocratic U.K. family during the early 20th century, bringing the TV & movie franchise to a satisfying conclusion: #SFBAFCC thevoicesf.org/an-aristocra...

With the wide release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in movie theaters this past weekend, it appears that the long-running TV series about an upper-crust British family in the early years of the 2...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More with Mark Thompson 9-12-25

September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Our nation is on the brink, but that won't deter me from doing #MovieReviews on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube: #TheLongWalk #DowntonAbbey: #TheGrandFinale #TheHistoryOfSound #RabbitTrap #TheManInMyBasement & #Code3, etc.! #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social
youtu.be/Qn6fvxjiG6A?...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More with Mark Thompson 9-5-25

September 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

For the latest #CultureBlast on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube, I review #TheConjuring: #LastRites #Twinless #TheBaltimorons #TheThreesome #Highest2Lowest & #Riefenstahl, poke at absurdities in the news, welcome back the #49ers & more: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/HvIO7NJC5wg?...

Bad relations, big laughs - The Voice of San Francisco

September 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Now in theaters, #TheRoses & #Splitsville are intrepid movie comedies that find dark humor in relationship trauma. I relish the audacity & favorably review these two brutally funny explorations of marriage & friendship in free fall for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social: #SFBAFCC
thevoicesf.org/bad-relation...

Reveling in the misery of others — schadenfreude, as the Germans call it — may seem cruel, but when the unhappiness is the result of ill-advised or dysfunctional romantic couplings and it generates sm...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More on The Mark Thompson Show 8-29-25

September 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

It's a #LaborDay weekend Blast on @TheMTS.bsky.social via #YouTube with @KimMcCallister.bsky.social when I review #CaughtStealing #TheRoses #TheToxicAvenger #TheThursdayMurderClub #ShinGodzilla & #BridgetJones & TV's #Peacemaker #Hostage & #Ludwig: @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/TrnzNvVTQWU?...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies & More with Mark Thompson 8-22-25

August 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

It's another balls-to-the-wall #CultureBlast on @TheMTS.bsky.social via #YouTube as I review the new movies #Eden #Relay #HoneyDont #Splitsville #Lurker #EenieMeanie & #Devo, take aim at the powers-that-be & joke around with Mark. #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/UKj45Jy6LNE?...