Scorsese’s gangster epic is a masterpiece of design and a storytelling disaster.
Our intrepid reporter seeks news, booze, and schmooze at Sundance.
A local writer puts the jihadis in control of Seattle—and most of the remaining former U.S.A.
A dirty book is back in print with a timely reminder of how decades before Jayson Blair, 25 ‘distinguished’ journalists once hoaxed the publishing world.
WITH A LITTLE help from his friends, Dan Ireland gave us the Seattle International Film Festival, the second comings of…
The Still Life steps outside of the (lunch)box.
Eleven scholars deconstruct the billion-dollar bear. (Oh, bother.)
SSC invites audiences to a friendly Tempest.
Makeover goes amok.
Lars von Trier explains America to us—from sea to sociopathic sea.
A luxurious, sexy conflation of two 300-year-old plays offers a gallery of dazzling comic turns.
A fine BBC documentary makes the case for jailing the bastard.
‘Inspirational’ teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.
Alas, Heath Ledger can’t remain a rake for long. Although it’s fun watching him go straight.
Sundance offers bigger crowds, better docs, addicts galore, and several Seattle connections, but we think it needs a new set of awards categories.
Wind’s satirical targets aren’t quite fat enough.
Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., April 14– Thurs., April 20. Not rated. 87 minutes.
Even the best fiction films were indebted to documentarieswhich turns out to be promising for both kinds of movies.
Boomer midlife chronicler Jay McInerney writes a 9/12 novel.
Dec. 8, 187 B.C. Syrian/Greek invader despot Antiochus IV butchers a pig on an altar to Zeus in the Temple….
