Evolution of a Criminal Runs Fri., Nov. 7–Thurs., Nov. 13 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 81 minutes. Plenty of Hollywood filmmakers have fallen into crime—DUIs,… Continue reading
Einstein is the screenwriter’s crutch. At least in the case of Christopher Nolan (writing with his brother Jonathan), the bending of space and the relativity… Continue reading
Seattle Art Museum director Kimerly Rorschach was hedging her language during last month’s press launch for its awkwardly divided new show. Pop Departures, mostly sourced… Continue reading
Quick, can you name the short-film Oscar winners from this past March? Me neither. Instead of belatedly parading the nominees around the country, Sundance is… Continue reading
Somewhat contrary to expectation, this is not a documentary about a master art forger. Exposed as a fraud in 2011 by Financial Times and The… Continue reading
The audience votes with its feet. At least at the museum, where you’re not supposed to applaud or cheer, people walk in—and out—purely on the… Continue reading
Yumiko Glover left Japan as young college graduate and never went back. After working in business and as a simultaneous translator, she settled in Hawaii,… Continue reading
Faster than you can say Young Adult novel, director Gregg Araki dives into a doomy ’80s wallow, the soundtrack throbbing with The Cure and This… Continue reading
A staple of Japanese folklore for 10 centuries, Princess Kaguya is now an anime eight years in the making from Isao Takahata, the 78-year-old co-founder… Continue reading
Some movies are an argument against making movies; some marriages are an argument against having kids; and this addled New York indie neatly manages both… Continue reading
Justin Simien’s smart new college satire reminds you how lazy most American comedies are. In a very different Hollywood ecosystem, Netflix is paying Adam Sandler… Continue reading
They don’t make movies like this anymore, a fact that director Mathieu Amalric immediately emphasizes with The Blue Room’s boxy old Academy ratio. Though set… Continue reading
If you didn’t get the message in last year’s Disconnect, director Jason Reitman is here to remind you again that the Internet is A Very… Continue reading
Marriage equality may be a new thing, but there’s always been equality in grief. The death of a lover is like the death of a… Continue reading
Seven decades after World War II, and countless movies about it, I don’t know if audiences still have a taste for straightforward combat flicks like… Continue reading
You’ve seen this story before, maybe twice: Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips and the Danish A Hijacking. Cutter Hodierne’s tale of Somali pirates seizing a… Continue reading
At the movies at least, the stock of righteous, muckraking journalists peaked with All the President’s Men. Newsmen (almost always men) had a pretty good… Continue reading
Down in the lower paragraphs of news stories about the Middle East, whenever this Hamas faction or that Hezbollah brigade takes over a town, you’ll… Continue reading
We’re in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a walled city surrounded first by slums (whose denizens are shot on sight) and then by radioactive desert. Beyond that,… Continue reading
This new sculptural installation by local artists Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora presents a tangle of old-school fluorescent bulbs—not those fancy, efficient, newfangled LEDs—suspended from… Continue reading
