There was every reason going in to believe that 1408, based on a Stephen King short story, would be nothing…
Uplifted beyond its merits by a thrilling performance from Marion Cotillard, this humdrum biopic of France’s favorite songbird, Edith Piaf,…
From across the international date line (New Zealand) comes a wonderfully weird, wry romance where the hearts, as well as…
What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life and replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con man and swapped…
This sequel to Bruce Almighty is the work of an angry God. A sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as the most…
Not since Lara Croft has the actress had so apposite an avatar.
Night Watch, you may recall, told of an ancient feud waged between the forces of Light and Dark. The hero,…
Do we need another movie about the liberal West watching in horror as something that daily befalls helpless bystanders all…
Emanuele Crialese’s depiction of dirt-poor Sicilian immigrants bound for Ellis Island deliberately restricts itself to the perspective of these bewildered…
Drew Emery’s locally made debut documentary, seen in a slightly different cut at SIFF ’05, tackles the always fraught subject…
There’s nothing so difficult or novel about restaging Shakespeare in modern dress—just add cell phones and iPods, button-snap cowboy shirts,…
Alien Autopsy In the long history of fine Fox Network programming, the 1995 special Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) is…
Heroically prolific Hong Kong director Johnnie To has made it his mission to bring the gangster film into the 21st…
The less you know about Burt and Linda Pugach, the couple whose tumultuous 50-year relationship is documented here, the better….
Alive Russia’s been producing some interesting movies about its disastrous military intervention in Chechnya (as we’ll soon be doing about…
The cash-cow flippered ones rise again, this time as yellow-tufted surfer dudes riding the waves of life off the coast…
We’ve had our fun, and now Steven Soderbergh has our money. Oh, wait, that was two movies ago.
Most of us locals merely attend SIFF to watch movies. A few actually get to see their own efforts—like this…
Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, this loopy anime from director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress) isn’t a movie…
Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival (May 16–27)…
