A New York Times essay recently suggested that Hollywood abandon the so-called “four-quadrant” marketing plan, in which a single movie…
The last time Helen Mirren went up against the Nazis, in The Debt, it was really no contest. So you…
When private collectors are generous enough to send their art on the road, the catalogue already written, a bottom-line-mindful museum…
Have you ever developed a crush on a movie villain, the kind of Dr. Evil-ish sociopath you don’t need to…
Here is a romance that can’t happen, so why make a movie about it? In her early 20s, penniless Eleanor…
Blowing Up Cinema: The Art of Michelangelo Antonioni They don’t make ’em like this anymore. Jack Nicholson kept the slow,…
Unless you read The Guardian online or watch the BBC, you may not be familiar with the masterfully sly and…
The setup here might promise routine road comedy: A sad and lonely Japanese woman, who somehow believes the 1996 Coen…
Well, someone’s been hitting the gym. Since Liam Neeson announced his looming retirement from AARP action movies, Sean Penn and…
For young soldier Gary (Jack O’Connell) and most of his British squad, Northern Ireland is more than another country. Dispatched…
Judaism, like any major religion, has too much history to digest readily. For that reason, while the Seattle Jewish Film…
Here’s an earnest new comedy of hybrid parentage: Dwayne J. Clark, a local businessman, is the newbie fictionalizing his past…
A beloved old neighbor, who occupies a rent-controlled apartment in a valuable Brooklyn brownstone, suddenly drops dead. Perhaps because she…
Though a relatively gentle homefront comedy, John Boorman’s 1987 Hope and Glory advanced the revisionist argument that—to uncomprehending children, at…
The early history of Seattle is inseparable from the timber industry, since that was our first and most readily exportable…
She comes from the land of the ice and snow. We first meet Hera as a 12-year-old on an Icelandic…
As I write this, the memory is fresh of Julianne Moore winning her Oscar—finally!—for mentally perishing in About Alice. It’s…
“We’re not Twilight!” Thus protests a New Zealand vampire, confronted with a noob—bitten within the past decade—who tries to drag…
I am not going to insist you should’ve heard of the local band Tennis Pro, nor be a fan, to…
Once upon a time, readings were held in bookstores, not bars; dance and classical music were confined to concert halls,…
