The Signal Opens Fri., June 13 at Sundance and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Sci-fi, like real estate and…
Ida Opens Fri., June 13 at Sundance Cinemas and SIFF Cinema Uptown. Rated PG-13. 80 minutes. After the calamity of…
Supermensch Opens Fri., June 13 at Seven Gables. Rated R. 84 minutes. The subtitle of Mike Myers’ first film as…
Ping Pong Summer Runs Fri., June 6–Thurs., June 12 at Northwest Film Forum. Not rated. 92 minutes. I get my…
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia Opens Fri., June 6 at Varsity. Not rated. 89 minutes. When Gore Vidal…
You look familiar, says the casting director at an audition, but he can’t place the face. “I was on a…
Documented Runs Fri., May 30–Thurs., June 5 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 95 minutes. Good journalists don’t necessarily become good…
Chinese Puzzle Opens Fri., May 30 at Seven Gables. Rated R. 117 minutes. In three agreeable films covering about a…
You may recall seeing a short film at SIFF ’12 called The Last Virgin, about a drunken teenage party in…
The German Doctor Opens Fri., May 23 at Sundance and Lincoln Square. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes. There’s a whole genre…
Chef Opens Fri., May 23 at Majestic Bay, Sundance, and Lincoln Square. Rated R. 115 minutes. There is nothing wrong…
Belle Opens Fri., May 23 at Guild 45th, Meridian, and Lincoln Square. Rated PG. 105 minutes. The rule or the…
You can’t go home again—only Matt Smith did. Twice. Raised in the old Catholic enclave on the east side of…
“People were very uncomfortable showing it,” says Robert Levenson of the decorative art and design objects he began collecting some…
Speaking from Los Angeles, writer/director John Ridley is well aware of Seattle’s expectations for his SIFF-opening Jimi Hendrix biopic. Hendrix…
Locke Opens Fri., May 16 at Harvard Exit. Rated R. 85 minutes. Bane has a problem. And by Bane we…
His last film at SIFF, the 2007 comedy Outsourced, was about a Seattle tech worker sent to a strange land,…
John Jeffcoat’s last film at SIFF, the 2007 comedy Outsourced, was about a Seattle tech worker sent to a strange…
Speaking from Los Angeles, writer/director John Ridley is well aware of Seattle’s expectations for his SIFF-opening Jimi Hendrix biopic. Hendrix…
We’re sitting in the lobby of a U District hotel, coffees in hand, staring at the morning rain in late…
