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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:
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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?...

Aliens among us - The Voice of San Francisco

August 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

A new miniseries brings the monstrous extraterrestrials of the #Alien franchise to our planet & your home screen. As #AlienEarth starts its run on #FX & #Hulu, I rocket to @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social to discuss the show's thoughtful approach to its scifi/horror hybrid:
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In 1979, the movie poster for Alien read, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” After 46 years, nine feature films, eight shorts, a stage production, over 50 video games, more than 40 novels, and wa...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More with Mark Thompson 8-15-25

August 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Blaster in the house! I'm on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with #MovieReviews of #Nobody2 #EastOfWall #TroubleMan & #Fixed, the lowdown on #AlienEarth & #EyesOfWakanda & shots at premature #Oktoberfest, the #AlaskaSummit & #DeanCain: @TheVOSF.bsky.social youtu.be/m-Y9tLWKPek?...

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

August 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

Chicanery's in store on @TheMTS.bsky.social, hosted by Kim McCallister on #YouTube, with my #MovieReviews of #Weapons #FreakierFriday #MyMothersWedding #Sketch #EbonyAndIvory & #ThePickup & catch-ups to #Wednesday & #KingOfTheHill & more: @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/0gl5Ifvl7nU?...

On the road for better or worse - The Voice of San Francisco

August 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

In a de facto on-the-road trifecta, three current movies - #SheRidesShotgun #SouleymanesStory & #KerouacsRoad: #TheBeatOfANation - take very different journeys with distinctly disparate results. I map them out in my latest column for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social: #SFBAFCC thevoicesf.org/on-the-road-...

The road picture is a staple of the movie industry, generally featuring one, two, or more people undertaking an odyssey that delivers some combination of action, conflict, personal growth, comedy, and...

Michael Snyder Talks New Movies, TV & More with Mark Thompson 8-1-25

August 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

It's a stupendous Blast on @TheMTS.bsky.social via YouTube with my reviews of #TheNakedGun #Together #TheBadGuys 2 #SheRidesShotgun #KerouacsRoad #SouleymanesStory & #HappyGilmore2 & asides on #StarTrek #SuperchiefGallery @KPProjects.bsky.social etc. @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/qiYErGWT28U?...

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

August 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

I needed a fantastic forum to review #FantasticFour: #FirstSteps & @TheMTS.bsky.social with Kim McCallisterKim on YouTube fit. I also cover #OhHi #TheHome #Ick #FourLettersOfLove #Shoshana, TV's #Ballard & #Ironheart, #RollingStones & more: #SFBAFCC @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social youtu.be/e9SZukKevKY?...

The Roxie rises, ‘Eddington’ falters, and ‘Stick’ clicks - The Voice of San Francisco

July 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM

Michael Snyder

@cultureblaster.bsky.social

In a multi-faceted column for @TheVoiceSF.bsky.social, I applaud the preservation of the #RoxieTheater, raise an eyebrow at the ambitious movie misfire #Eddington, and note that the golf-themed Apple TV sitcom #Stick is considerably above par: @TheMTS.bsky.social thevoicesf.org/the-roxie-ri...

Downtown San Francisco may be down to only one multiscreen movie theater (a shocking state for what is supposedly a world-class city). Still, the Mission District will reportedly hold on to its longti...