Ben Stiller spent years and God knows how many millions on his recent Walter Mitty remake, a statement movie that…
A New York Times essay recently suggested that Hollywood abandon the so-called “four-quadrant” marketing plan, in which a single movie…
Icelandic humor. Could it become a thing? It seems possible in the wake of Of Horses of Men, a supremely…
It arrives with something less than the heated expectations of, say, the Avengers sequel, but Ned Rifle is nevertheless the…
This movie never leaves the courtroom or its antechamber, but that’s not the only reason things are unbearably claustrophobic. The…
Stage Openings & Events Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams’ dysfunctional-family classic. ACT, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $15–$44….
Openings & Events Wally Bivins Tell Your Friends “I’m an Artist!” features new work from PNW’s executive director. Opens Sat.,…
Openings & Events Dan Loewenstein He presents new prints and sculpture in The Boys, which opens Friday, April 17. Method…
Five years ago my elderly Orange County doctor declared of his old hometown, “Detroit was fine until the Negros took…
In the arresting, proclamatory opening of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for violin (1976), a single note is hammered out repeatedly…
Because the scale and pace of construction are so jaw-dropping in SLU (what happened to Glazer’s?!?), any little Edith Macefield-style…
Opening Nights PThe Best of Enemies Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $20–$40. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.,…
Friday, April 10 Swan Lake People come back over and over again to Swan Lake, in part because the starring…
North Seattle Cash & Carry, Grocery 21 Lake Forest Bar & Grill, American 16 PCC Natural Markets, Grocery 22 Greenlake…
Stage Openings & Events Alice in Wonderland Andre Gregory’s avant-garde take on Lewis Carroll, from 1970. Stone Soup Theater, 4029…
The last time Helen Mirren went up against the Nazis, in The Debt, it was really no contest. So you…
In the early minutes of Welcome to New York, Gerard Depardieu’s performance as a VIP called Devereaux appears designed to…
The missed rendezvous: such a potent storytelling device, such a tantalizing chance to imagine what might have been if only…
It’s no coincidence that Dakota Fanning’s Euphemia (nicknamed “Effie”) looks like she stepped out of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Within the…
“The following is kind of based on a true story a little bit.” There is a germ of truth to…
