Bob Strauss

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss

“Predator: Killer of Killers” is a bunch of bloody, action-filled animated stories in one neat, 90-minute package. 20th Century Studios/Hulu“Predator: Killer of Killers” is the best movie a 10-year-old boy could ever hope to see. That’s because it’s really a bunch of bloody, action-filled animated stories in one neat, 90-minute package. There’s a Viking saga that could just as well be called “Conan the Revenger.” A ninja versus samurai standoff comes next.

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss

In “Bad Shabbos,” New York farce that combines dark and Jewish humor elements in a winning, weirdly warm way, a Sabbath dinner goes awry. Menemsha FilmsJews and gentiles in love have been comically upsetting their respective families for at least 103 years, since the popular stage play “Abie’s Irish Rose” debuted. Dinner parties gone awry are also a theatrical — and by extension, movie and television — staple.

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Tech bros go wild while wrecking the world in “Mountainhead,” writer-director Jesse Armstrong’s follow-up to his towering series about a different set of rich assholes, “Succession.”This ain’t that. Armstrong’s feature-directing debut does not have the bandwidth to develop searing character studies like four, intricately interwoven seasons of an all-time television great.

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss

Julianne Moore stars as the ultrarich Michaela “Kiki” Kell in “Sirens.” Photo: Macall Polay/Netflix“Sirens” seems to want to satirize “The White Lotus” and its growing number of copycat shows. That’s not an easy feat, since Mike White already builds a great deal of sophisticated self-mockery and naughty class critique into his TV franchise. So the route “Sirens” showrunner Molly Smith Metzler takes here is to go more vulgar with the humor, which is fine and often funny enough.

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss

“Sinners,” starring Michael B. Jordan, is returning to IMAX theaters for a limited time. Warner Bros. “Sinners,” Oakland auteur Ryan Coogler’s blues versus vampires movie set in 1930s Mississippi, is such a success that it’s been booked for a rare return to nine IMAX theaters nationwide this month.