Allison Janney

SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans

Life During Wartime: Todd Solondz, Again With the Pedophilia?

September DVD Roundup

​The month is over, and let's survey a few notable titles (or casualties?) from the past 30 days. First: Alec Baldwin is stuck in the '70s? Or is it the '80s? Lymelife makes it hard to tell. Baldwin plays the puffy, obverse version to his cutthroat salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross--a spec housi ... More >>

Your Weekend Arts & Chowder Guide

Richard Nixon lives! The disgraced former president (actually portrayed by Stacy Keach) begins a weekend packed with tugboat racing, excellent photography, classical music, and more. First, here's Margaret Friedman on Frost/Nixon: British playwright Peter Morgan does what he must to magnify the ent ... More >>

Who's Cuter: Eggers or Krasinski?

You can decide whether literary hunk Dave Eggers or TV hunk John Krasinski is hotter at a special benefit screening of Away We Go on May 9. Northwest Film Forum is presenting the film; proceeds go to local writing-tutoring center 826 Seattle, part of the national organization founded by Eggers in th ... More >>

Juno: Snark Meets Heart in This Year’s Breakout Indie Hit

You can decide whether literary hunk Dave Eggers or TV hunk John Krasinski is hotter at a special benefit screening of Away We Go on May 9. Northwest Film Forum is presenting the film; proceeds go to local writing-tutoring center 826 Seattle, part of the national organization founded by Eggers in th ... More >>

Southern Melodrama Meets Japanese Ghosts

You can decide whether literary hunk Dave Eggers or TV hunk John Krasinski is hotter at a special benefit screening of Away We Go on May 9. Northwest Film Forum is presenting the film; proceeds go to local writing-tutoring center 826 Seattle, part of the national organization founded by Eggers in th ... More >>

Strangers With Candy

Showing at Varsity, Fri., July 7–Thurs., July 13. Rated R. 85 minutes.

Broken Flowers

Also: Caterina in the Big City, The Chumscrubber, The Edukators, Saint Ralph, and Save the Green Planet.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Also: House of D, Palindromes, Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela, Watermarks, and Winter Solstice.

Artful Downer

Despite three great performances, this Woolfian adaptation still adds up to one overrated mope-fest.

The temp

Despite three great performances, this Woolfian adaptation still adds up to one overrated mope-fest.

Scratch the surface

Getting past the barriers to human understanding.

The purple rose of Kansas

"She's got a kind of wholesome Doris Day thing going," says her would-be killer.