Frances McDormand

Fargo

Almost Famous

Megan Fox or Rosie Huntington-Whitley? It Doesn't Matter in Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon

Rose Huntington-Whitley vs. Megan Fox​The Dinner: Truffle fries, washed down with several rum and diet cokes at iPic Theatres, 16451 N.E. 74th St., Redmond. The Movie: Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon at the same venue The Screenplate: An enormous buzz surrounded the third installment in ... More >>

Burn After Reading

Rose Huntington-Whitley vs. Megan Fox​The Dinner: Truffle fries, washed down with several rum and diet cokes at iPic Theatres, 16451 N.E. 74th St., Redmond. The Movie: Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon at the same venue The Screenplate: An enormous buzz surrounded the third installment in ... More >>

Golden Globes Preview and Predictions

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Respectful Dissent at the Cinema

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Blood Simple

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Burn After Reading: Coen Brothers Make a Sour Business of Comedy

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day...

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Amy Adams Trapped in Vintage Britcom!

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Like Austen in L.A.

Absent a marriage plot, or any real plot, Nicole Holofcener dissects the manners of matrons and maids.

Rough Justice

A killer pays his debt, and then some, in this harsh border morality tale.

Jan. 11-18, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

North Country

Opens Fri., Oct. 21, at Guild 45 and others.

Something's Gotta Give

Columbia Tri-Star Home Ent., $28.95

Golden

Steve Wiecking

Fargo

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

The Hours

Paramount Home Ent., $29.99

Weather Woes Cause Concert Chaos

Plus the latest on Hot Hot Heat, Vendetta Red, and more.

Bad Specimens

In a clinical study of human misbehavior, Frances McDormand stands far above the other subjects of Laurel Canyon.

Corporal Punishment

Criminally bad cop flick features a lard-ass De Niro.

The defiant ones

No envelopes, please.

I don't want to live!

Fatalistic film-noir fall guy recounts life of woe.

Almost family

A hotel is not a home, boy journalist discovers.

Laugh and death

A week long celebration of good, mean fun.

Blood Simple

Have the Coen brothers infected our cinema?

SIFF 2000: The Films: A to H

A-H • I-P • R-Z

Wonder Boys

Ragged fun from Chabon's novel.