Double Negative/Universal PicturesPegg (at right) attempts to give Paul some driving lessons.The Dinner: Burger, shake, and fries at Dick's (111 N.E. 45th St.).The Movie: Paul… Continue reading
What's your spirit animal?
Samuel Goldwyn FilmsGugino explains the birds and the bees.The Dinner: Massaman Beef Curry at Tup Tim Thai (18 W. Mercer St.).The Movie: Elektra Luxx at… Continue reading
The aesthetics of weather.
Isn't it about time we gave Michael Pollan his own food-and-health TV channel? Seriously, he's in every food documentary out there: Food Fight, Food, Inc. . . . and… Continue reading
Camouflage without a target.
If you're going to see one New Age vanity documentary this year, it might as well be the best-funded New Age vanity documentary of the… Continue reading
As one artists' studio building is threatened in Pioneer Square, another rises in the ID.
When Howard House closed last summer, the gallery seemed destined to remain dark for months, a forlorn reminder of Pioneer Square's problems for all who… Continue reading
Images of an enduring Idaho town.
Looking at light sources.
Patti Perret/CBS FilmsStatham blows stuff up real good.The Dinner: Chicken teriyaki at Yummy Teriyaki (622 First Ave. N.).The Movie: The Mechanic at Pacific Place (600… Continue reading
Some wrongheaded critics have called the happily- and long-married couple at the center of Mike Leigh's new seriocomedy "smug," which is to miss the point… Continue reading
There's a lot of Sicilian history in this episodic opus from Giuseppe Tornatore (whose Cinema Paradiso you either love or loathe). Three generations of the… Continue reading
The Frye turns into a multiplex.
Why would a couple of over-40 dudes, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, make a movie about something they don't even use? The generational… Continue reading
Wait, weren't we promised an atomic blast? Where's our explosion, our fallout, our mushroom cloud? The nuclear suspense of the title is hardly supported in… Continue reading
Please deface the Hummer!
Dorff cruises aimlessly in his Ferrari F430.Merrick Morton/Focus FeaturesThe Dinner: bacon cheeseburger and fries at Kidd Valley (531 Queen Anne Ave. N.).The Movie: Somewhere at… Continue reading
Maki Tamura's wallpaper exotica.
