It would be easier to enjoy the madcap, stranger-than-fiction revelations of The Dog if it weren’t for the queasy awareness…
When did fossil hunting become a crime? For more than a century since paleontologists and amateurs began looking for geologic…
This is a bumpy, uneven picture full of colorful digressions—is that simply to say it’s Irish?—and narrative dead-ends. Its writer…
Stage Openings & Events Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Erickson Theatre,…
Photo by Anna Erickson Seattle Opera’s Speight Jenkins said it best: “I thought at first it was just a fad……
Wednesday, Aug. 13 Trailer TrashDon’t you hate going to the movies, reserving extra time in advance to park and get…
Opening ThisWeek PCalvary Opens Fri., Aug. 15 at hARVARD eXIT AND sUNDANCE cINEMAS. Rated R. 105 minutes. VeeShapeThis is a bumpy,…
I long to declare that I love this musical-comedy revival; in truth, however, I’m ambivalent. Back in 2001, Urinetown earned…
Stage Openings & Events As You Like It This update drops Rosalind and Celia into a ’90s music festival. Presented…
Openings & Events • Bainbridge Island Summer Studio Tour For the 14th year in a row, you can take a…
Author Events Sean Davis The Iraq War veteran and artist shares from his memoir The Wax Bullet War. Ravenna Third…
The underlying subject of many romantic comedies is chemistry, the mysterious rapport that draws people together despite whatever circumstances—being already…
Some movie critics must secretly hope that Woody Allen dies soon—if not two decades ago—to spare us any more of…
Spain only seems to export its most beautiful movie stars to us, often via Almodovar: Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Javier…
If you were working from a menu of “crowd-pleasing movie conventions,” you could do worse than to mark these boxes:…
I think of Joe Swanberg’s latest lo-fi indie comedy as less a successful movie than a successful situation that happens…
Petra Costa’s very personal documentary is about her sister Elena, 13 years older, who during the late ’80s left Brazil…
Watching two film directors play catch is not a guarantee of interest. Put Brett Ratner and Jean-Luc Godard in a…
When a feature’s title is the name of one of its actors, not his character’s name, you know the project…
About Alex Runs Fri., Aug. 8–Thurs., Aug. 14 at Sundance CInemas. Rated R. 96 minutes. Suicide attempt. Six college friends,…
