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Island lovers Speedman and Clarkson.Jeremy Benning/IFC Films
A New York Times essay recently suggested that...
By Brian Miller • April 7, 2015 1:55 pm

A New York Times essay recently suggested that Hollywood abandon the so-called “four-quadrant” marketing plan, in which a single movie…

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Back to Vienna for Aunt Adele's sake: Mirren and Reynolds.Robert Viglasky/Weinstein Co.
The last time Helen Mirren went up against...
By Brian Miller • March 31, 2015 11:23 am

The last time Helen Mirren went up against the Nazis, in The Debt, it was really no contest. So you…

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SAM's map of the tribal areas surveyed.Seattle Art Museum
When private collectors are generous enough to send...
By Brian Miller • March 26, 2015 12:52 pm

When private collectors are generous enough to send their art on the road, the catalogue already written, a bottom-line-mindful museum…

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Phillips makes his case for fossil fuels.Don Lenzer/Sony Pictures Classics
Have you ever developed a crush on a...
By Brian Miller • March 19, 2015 4:17 pm

Have you ever developed a crush on a movie villain, the kind of Dr. Evil-ish sociopath you don’t need to…

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Who’s in charge of whom? Meester and Shatkin.
Here is a romance that can’t happen, so...
By Brian Miller • March 19, 2015 4:17 pm

Here is a romance that can’t happen, so why make a movie about it? In her early 20s, penniless Eleanor…

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Blowing Up Cinema: The Art of Michelangelo Antonioni They don’t make ’em
Blowing Up Cinema: The Art of Michelangelo Antonioni...
By Brian Miller • March 17, 2015 3:25 pm

Blowing Up Cinema: The Art of Michelangelo Antonioni They don’t make ’em like this anymore. Jack Nicholson kept the slow,…

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Illustration by Joshua Boulet
Unless you read The Guardian online or watch...
By Brian Miller • March 17, 2015 2:28 pm

Unless you read The Guardian online or watch the BBC, you may not be familiar with the masterfully sly and…

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Kikuchi’s Fargo fan is led astray.
The setup here might promise routine road comedy:...
By Brian Miller • March 16, 2015 5:37 pm

The setup here might promise routine road comedy: A sad and lonely Japanese woman, who somehow believes the 1996 Coen…

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Idris Elba (right) plays an uncertain ally to Penn's woozy gunman.Keith Bernstein/Open Road Films
Well, someone’s been hitting the gym. Since Liam...
By Brian Miller • March 16, 2015 5:37 pm

Well, someone’s been hitting the gym. Since Liam Neeson announced his looming retirement from AARP action movies, Sean Penn and…

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O'Connell's naive soldier on patrol.Dean Rogers/Roadside attractions
For young soldier Gary (Jack O’Connell) and most...
By Brian Miller • March 10, 2015 2:07 pm

For young soldier Gary (Jack O’Connell) and most of his British squad, Northern Ireland is more than another country. Dispatched…

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Schwartz at her bat mitzvah in Little White Lie.
Judaism, like any major religion, has too much...
By Brian Miller • March 3, 2015 3:36 pm

Judaism, like any major religion, has too much history to digest readily. For that reason, while the Seattle Jewish Film…

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Potter’s therapist tends to her flock.
Here’s an earnest new comedy of hybrid parentage:...
By Brian Miller • March 2, 2015 4:54 pm

Here’s an earnest new comedy of hybrid parentage: Dwayne J. Clark, a local businessman, is the newbie fictionalizing his past…

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Noah (Levine) takes a beating on Barri's behalf.IFC/Sundance Selects
A beloved old neighbor, who occupies a rent-controlled...
By Brian Miller • March 2, 2015 4:48 pm

A beloved old neighbor, who occupies a rent-controlled apartment in a valuable Brooklyn brownstone, suddenly drops dead. Perhaps because she…

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Turner's Bill merits stern disapproval from his C.O. (Grant, at right).Sophie Mutevelian/BBC Worldwide
Though a relatively gentle homefront comedy, John Boorman’s...
By Brian Miller • March 2, 2015 4:48 pm

Though a relatively gentle homefront comedy, John Boorman’s 1987 Hope and Glory advanced the revisionist argument that—to uncomprehending children, at…

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Abid's Self Portrait (detail).Adeel Ahmed
The early history of Seattle is inseparable from...
By Brian Miller • February 27, 2015 1:51 pm

The early history of Seattle is inseparable from the timber industry, since that was our first and most readily exportable…

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Iceland: sunny island paradise.
She comes from the land of the ice...
By Brian Miller • February 24, 2015 3:45 pm

She comes from the land of the ice and snow. We first meet Hera as a 12-year-old on an Icelandic…

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Mia Wasikowska as Moore's chore whore.
As I write this, the memory is fresh...
By Brian Miller • February 24, 2015 3:41 pm

As I write this, the memory is fresh of Julianne Moore winning her Oscar—finally!—for mentally perishing in About Alice. It’s…

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Waititi as the friendly, thirsty Viago.
“We’re not Twilight!” Thus protests a New Zealand...
By Brian Miller • February 17, 2015 11:18 am

“We’re not Twilight!” Thus protests a New Zealand vampire, confronted with a noob—bitten within the past decade—who tries to drag…

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John Jeffcoat
I am not going to insist you should’ve...
By Brian Miller • February 17, 2015 11:17 am

I am not going to insist you should’ve heard of the local band Tennis Pro, nor be a fan, to…

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Choreographer Alice Gosti. Photo by Nate Watters.
Once upon a time, readings were held in...
By Brian Miller • February 10, 2015 7:16 pm

Once upon a time, readings were held in bookstores, not bars; dance and classical music were confined to concert halls,…

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