Benicio Del Toro

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Dinner & a Movie: Wolf, Two Ways

Benicio! You look starved!​The Dinner: Sliced baguette with Sicilian olive oil, skate with capers and lemon, semolina gnocchi with a crisp parmesan crust, bourbon-caramel bread pudding and a glass of oatmeal stout at How to Cook a Wolf (2208 Queen Anne Ave. N.) The Movie: The Wolfman, at down ... More >>

Our Valentine’s Day Date-Movie Planner

Even From Paris With Love has its romantic side.

Maggie’s Guide to Gettin’ Some

No one knows the secrets of the meet-up game like a lady bartender.

Steven Soderbergh Interviewed

Soderbergh with Del Toro (Photo: Teresa Isasi/IFC Films)Our colleague Scott Foundas sat down recently with the director of Che (review here), which opens Friday, Jan. 16 at the Varsity.Steven Soderbergh tends to travel light -- even when he has a movie camera tucked away inside his suitcase. That's ... More >>

Soderbergh Explains Why Che Is So Damn Long

Soderbergh with Del Toro (Photo: Teresa Isasi/IFC Films)Our colleague Scott Foundas sat down recently with the director of Che (review here), which opens Friday, Jan. 16 at the Varsity.Steven Soderbergh tends to travel light -- even when he has a movie camera tucked away inside his suitcase. That's ... More >>

Local Link to Che

(IFC Films)Steven Soderbergh's four-hour epic treatment of Che Guevara (played by Benicio Del Toro) opens Friday at the Varsity. (Our review here.) Among the credited screenwriters is Peter Buchman, once a playwright here in town associated with the old Annex Theatre during the '90s. After a script ... More >>

Che's Local Connection

(IFC Films)Steven Soderbergh's four-hour epic treatment of Che Guevara (played by Benicio Del Toro) opens Friday at the Varsity. (Our review here.) Among the credited screenwriters is Peter Buchman, once a playwright here in town associated with the old Annex Theatre during the '90s. After a script ... More >>

PICK Che: The Revolution Continues (for Four Hours)

(IFC Films)Steven Soderbergh's four-hour epic treatment of Che Guevara (played by Benicio Del Toro) opens Friday at the Varsity. (Our review here.) Among the credited screenwriters is Peter Buchman, once a playwright here in town associated with the old Annex Theatre during the '90s. After a script ... More >>

Still More Top 10 Lists

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

Revolutionary Cinema

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

Things We Lost in the Fire: Only Benicio Del Toro Is Worth Saving

You can read our critics' alphabetical list of the 12 best films of 2008 here. Me, I'm a traditionalist, a 10 best man who prefers numbers and rankings. Happily, several of our top-line writers have complied (after the jump). First, however, is the Village Voice Media critics' poll (with my votes a ... More >>

After the Wedding

Danish Oscar nominee offers intense psychological discomfort.

Sin City

Buena Vista Home Ent., $39.99.

A World Without Gray

For purists, this comic-book adaptation is a marvel of hard-boiled fidelity. For outsiders, the bloodshed may be too black-and-white.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

John Digweed fights for some from the techno-snob contingent.

Incident at Loch Ness

Also: Head in the Clouds, Ladder 49, Last Life in the Universe, Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Shark Tale.

SCHOOL OF ROCK

Paramount Home Video, $19.95

The Sit-Down

Paramount Home Video, $19.95

21 Grams

Admirably serious and powerfully cast, this fate-heavy drama squeezes all the life out of death.

The Whole Wide World

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $19.95

'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $19.95

The Usual Suspects

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $19.95

Screw Krispy Kreme

We've got the righteous doughnuts for you, and they're on the right side of the lake.

One note

O that infectious flamenco!

Snatch

O that infectious flamenco!

Traffic

O that infectious flamenco!

The Culture Bunker

O that infectious flamenco!

Pulp training

Guy Ritchie's newest romps gaily through the '90s.

Touch of evil

Drug war reaches both sides of the border.

Fatalism and fatality

When the wrong choice is the only choice.