On matters animated and three-dimensional I take my cue from the 7-year-old sitting at my right, who got mega-fidgety about…
The contrasting fortunes of West Seattle’s Admiral Theater and Burien’s Tin Theater.
Wait, weren’t we promised an atomic blast? Where’s our explosion, our fallout, our mushroom cloud? The nuclear suspense of the…
“Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them,” says Spalding Gray a few minutes…
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry’s new 3-D spectacle. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the mid-January dead…
The late George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. superlobbyist…
Kelly Canter is the Courtney Love of country stars. Spectacular meltdowns onstage have forced Kelly (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth Paltrow)…
Derek Cianfrance’s divorce drama is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from too-cute introduction…
A quasi-documentary portrait of young non-actors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out, and playing or listening to music, Damien…
1. The irony of The Social Network is that its creators, director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, are 40-somethings…
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by the 187…
This holiday season, we wanted to help with the tough decision whether to leave the house to see that certain…
Based on the Pulitzer Prize– winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the…
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King’s Speech is a…
For the third time, Robert De Niro questions Ben Stiller’s manhood.
Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers’ True Grit is…
In Julie Taymor’s hands, Shakespeare’s The Tempest becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen Mirren) has been forced…
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million-dollar reboot,…
The little-told story of a small but growing nonviolent opposition movement among rural West Bank Palestinians gets an airing in…
It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach…
