
Bob Strauss
Film and Television Reporter at Freelance
Film and Television Reporter at Datebook SF
Bob Strauss covers film and television for the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times' The Envelope, The Wrap and whoever else will pay him.
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2 weeks ago |
metacritic.com | Melanie McFarland |Bob Strauss
May 2025 TV Preview Jason Dietz Get details on the most notable new and returning shows (and TV movies) debuting in May, including Poker Face, Murderbot, Mountainhead, The Four Seasons, and more
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss
Jack Ellis, a Vietnam War veteran, in the docuseries “Turning Point: The Vietnam War.”NetflixIn marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Vietnam War documentaries have become a television genre.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss
Showrunner Tony Gilroy at a special screening for the second season of “Andor,” on April 10, in London. Thomas Krych/Associated Press“Andor,” which premiered on Disney+ in 2022, is widely considered the smartest, most mature and best “Star Wars” spinoff series. Now Season 2 completes the journey of Cassian Andor, portrayed by Diego Luna, from interstellar criminal to the passionate rebel martyr who meets his fate in “Rogue One” (2016), a close prequel to George Lucas’ original film trilogy.
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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss
Ever wonder what hanging out with Neil Young would be like? Pretty mellow, at least according to “Coastal,” the latest documentary about the Canadian rock legend directed by his wife, actress Daryl Hannah, whose other Young films include “Barn” and “Mountaintop.” The film is made up of warm, black-and-white footage of Young performing solo concerts at Southern California outdoor venues, plus what feels like an equal amount of time in the tour bus driving between gigs.
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1 month ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss
Art Spiegelman has done more to make Americans think of comic art as actual art than any other creator. And he did it with cartoon mice. But the characters of “Maus,” Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel based on his Polish-Jewish father Vladek’s Holocaust experience, will never be confused with a Disney mascot.
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