dec. 26
MUSIC
Kira Lynn Cain
Look, I’m not going to say Kira Lynn Cain creates music ideal for David Lynch films, but put it this way: if I were to make a movie featuring a severed ear, a hopped-up Dennis Hopper, and velvet of a certain hue, I’d probably want to keep her number on speed dial. Cain’s after-hours torch songs float slow-drifting bubbles up to the rafters with elegantly crafted tales of yearning, but there’s something about the brooding sounds of her guitar that suggests once those bubbles go pop, all hell’s gonna rain down. (Todd Lavoie)
With Barn Owl and Jack Klatt
9 p.m.
Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St., SF
$6
www.makeoutroom.com
www.kiralynncain.com
FILM
Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa indulges in delicious sentimentality; almost every dialogue exchange features some cliché observation that uses fighting as a metaphor for not giving up in the boxing ring of life. Steps are climbed, fists fly, personal demons are vanquished, and somehow the utterly predictable Rocky Balboa becomes a movie you won’t be too guilty to admit you enjoyed. Yo, see you at Rambo IV! (Cheryl Eddy)
In Bay Area theaters.
See movie clock at www.sfbg.com