This new advocacy doc is essentially the bastard child of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Fuel (also directed by Joshua Tickell). If you’re in… Continue reading
How, short of total victory, do you end a war? The question has been haunting our military and political leaders since Korea. And though Rory… Continue reading
Likable characters are a curse in Hollywood. Studios want someone relatable, someone personable, someone who looks friendly on the cover of Us magazine. What the… Continue reading
Public art generally falls into two categories: 1) massive and durable enough to withstand the elements (and vandals and graffiti and pigeons and popular indifference...);… Continue reading
At any given backyard barbecue, you’ll meet scores of Northwest climbers who’ve done Rainier and McKinley, some who’ve bagged Everest, but only a handful who’ve… Continue reading
To its credit, this is an inconclusive, narrowly focused biopic sure to confound fans of Jimi Hendrix. It forgoes his Seattle origins (but for a… Continue reading
Yes, this is a movie nominally inspired by the old ’80s TV show. And yes, it’s essentially a Liam Neeson vehicle instead starring Denzel Washington… Continue reading
Why is this film not being released at Christmas? The sacred tradition of Jews and Chinese food and going to the movies on December 25… Continue reading
This is the kind of movie that congratulates itself for casting a comedienne in a dramatic role and a straight male comic as a gay… Continue reading
On an institutional level, the Northwest arts and culture scene is booming like Amazon. Tacoma Art Museum is opening a new wing in November devoted… Continue reading
You get the sense that filmmaker Shaun Scott can’t stop talking about history, yet he also wants to shift the conversation to the psychology of… Continue reading
A few short years ago, Domingo Martinez had the wolf at the door. His graphic-design clients were disappearing. The newspaper biz where he also worked—including… Continue reading
There’s a built-in audience for the latest collaboration between Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, given the widespread arthouse affection for My Dinner With Andre and… Continue reading
Alan Hruska’s adaptation of his stage comedy has as its heroine a New York fiction editor, Nellie (Amy McAllister), whose brain has perhaps been poisoned… Continue reading
Career on the skids, unable to remember his lines, performing some kind of Broadway abridgement of Jane Eyre, a bloated, alcoholic Errol Flynn wanders about… Continue reading
At Guantanamo, we know, inmates are denied few possessions other than Korans and writing paper. Sharp objects are certainly not allowed, and their U.S. jailors… Continue reading
A deliberate affront to good taste and conventional notions of feminine hygiene: That’s how to describe both the heroine of and the bestselling 2008 German… Continue reading
In interviews, the actor Ben Mendelsohn has said that he was once typecast as a handsome young bloke while working in Australian TV during the… Continue reading
Just as the Seahawks begin their season this week, here’s a profile of an outspoken black man from the generation before Richard Sherman. Raised in… Continue reading
As the living memory of World War II nears its end, fresh Hollywood treatments of the war also seem to be dying out after seven… Continue reading
