Ron Phillips/Warner Bros.Bale and Hathaway dance while Gotham burns.The Dinner: Massaman Beef Curry, at Tup Tim Thai (118 W. Mercer…
I love a good bummer as much as the next man, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles is certainly…
What to do with old books.
First be warned, this animated French tale about a cat burglar and his companion in crime, a cat, has been…
The PACCAR Pavilion’s new mural.
Not yet 30, local filmmaker Shaun Scott has an unusual affinity for history and archival footage. Both are woven deeply…
Let us now take this moment to praise Michael Bay. In a Hollywood career devoted to blowing shit up, he’s…
Hold me in your arms, arms, arms!
Documentary filmmakers have long been drawn to the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, a huge complex known as Angola, with its…
Journalist Phil Campbell wrote a book (Zioncheck for President) about his getting booted from The Stranger and subsequently running the…
Lewis Black got dumped. Then he wrote about it. For the next three decades.
Beautiful bruising.
Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton’s fourth feature is another agreeable exercise in small-scale humanism, an intimate three-hander set mostly in a…
Shot mostly in black-and-white by local cinematographer Ben Kasulke, Guy Maddin’s latest feels like a rehash of all his prior…
Niko Tavernise/Focus FeaturesKara Hayward and Jared Gilman go camping on an idyllic island.The Dinner: Hot dog, potato salad, and chips,…
Why is our famously rainy city so obsessed with jet-propelled water?
With deadpan impatience/intelligence, Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) plays Darius, an intern at Seattle magazine sent to the Olympic Peninsula…
As an actor, Anders Danielsen Lie has a frail, almost birdlike quality. He’s like some creature plucked too soon from…
A message of hope in South Lake Union.
If you’re going to save yourself from self- indulgence as the writer/director/star/ composer of a shoestring indie, you’d better do…
