Jeff Daniels

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Paper Man: Jeff Daniels Is Taunted by Ryan Reynolds

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 >>

The Answer Man: Why, Jeff Daniels, Why?

​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 >>

Away We Go: Dave Eggers’ Movie Not a Work of Staggering Genius

​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 >>

Oops, Our Sundance Correspondent Missed Humpday

Scott Foundas is at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah. Here's his second report, which curiously omits the three Seattle-related films we've mentioned earlier. Maybe he'll see them this week:Recession Fest, by Scott FoundasWhat is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a ch ... More >>

Evergreen Time

Broken hearts, whiskey bottles, and scrapped deadlines: Relax, and meet the Hands.

The Squid and the Whale, My Neighbor Tortoro, and The Chronicles of Naria

Plus a round-up of other new titles.

Larger and Smaller Than Life

The flaws are drawn more boldly than the virtues in this scathing family fictionalization.

See It Now, All Over Again

Don't believe the liberal media, George Clooney powerfully reminds us—unless you're prepared to live with the grim alternative.

Northern Highlights

2005 suddenly looks brighter for fall movies, according to our intrepid explorer over the border.

The Animation Show

Also: Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Imaginary Heroes.

From Park Slope to Park City

Sundance is still a great destination for indie cinema, beneath the avalanche of bling.

Sweet Home Virginia

Rally round the flag boys! Oopsnot that flag.

Artful Downer

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

Color my world

A different kind of red scare.