No, don’t. And neither does this inane documentary by leftie director Ron Mann (Grass) know anything significant or new about…
Science fiction easily lends itself to allegory, but while the dystopian near-future of co-writer/director Alex Rivera’s feature debut focuses, admirably,…
The first original screenplay by hipster lit-world phenom Dave Eggers is, much like his 2001 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of…
“I’m fascinated by giganticness,” reveals Santa-bearded mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, whose compulsive, nearly half-century-long mission to create candy-colored mazes of…
Substitute “career” for “life” in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you’ll have a succinct verdict on My…
Trailing mostly justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at this…
Old School fans, remove your earmuffs: This messy, raunchy farce about three groomsmen (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) on…
By Brian Miller and SW Staff
Notwithstanding all the boomer studio executives who grow misty-eyed recollecting nerdy childhoods parked in front of the Krofft brothers’ television…
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America.
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America on the Kitsap Peninsula. With zombies!
Hitoshi Matsumoto, half of a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as a big-screen director/star with this goof on the rubber-monster…
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly…
Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi…
With Summer Hours, director Olivier Assayas stages a tactical retreat from the hookers and junkies of his Boarding Gate and…
By Brian Miller and SW staff
After the peace movement of the ’60s, hippies became a tarnished brand, even a scary one. The alternative lifestyle, to…
There’s a theory in the art-house and indie-film world right now that after the collapse of so much easy financing…
Writer-director Rian Johnson’s movies—first Brick in 2006, now The Brothers Bloom—are clever and soulful confabulations. The filmmaker, whose screenplays read…
After his first feature, maverick local director David Russo may be done with movies.
