American Beauty scribe Alan Ball makes his dreaded feature-directing debut with another tale of suburban purgatory, featuring yet another erotically…
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal…
Written and produced by local ex-politico Grant Cogswell, who once championed the monorail, Cthulhu is a no less quixotic endeavor….
Trailing negative buzz and a revolving door of A-list talent since its inception in 1994, Diane English’s pudding of a…
Aaron Wiederspahn’s feature debut blurs the line between illness—in this case borderline autism—and plain loneliness, gently suggesting that solitude can…
Documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu takes a breather from chronicling heavy-duty outsider artists (In the Realms of the Unreal) and extremists…
Based on Christopher Trumbo’s play about his hell-raising pop, the Spartacus screenwriter sentenced to prison for refusing to play ball…
Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed playground, and…
Previously on Another Gay Movie, Todd Stephens’ racist and pandering but almost canny response to American Pie, Nico thankfully lost…
One day you ask your neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar. The next, you win an Oscar for The…
Whatever happened to Outsourced?
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech New Wavers…
The three-part, fuming, World War II bummer The Human Condition (1959-61)—considered the magnum opus of socially critical Japanese filmmaker Masaki…
Muslims, Jews, and Christians may have their, oh, occasional differences, but as an Islamic scholar observes in Parvez Sharma’s documentary,…
La France is a platoon film unlike any I’ve ever seen. Director Serge Bozon treats the first total war with…
Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Aug. 29–Thurs., Sept. 4. Not rated. 95 minutes. X marks the spot, literally, where…
Opens at Guild 45 and Lincoln Square, Wed., Aug. 27. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes. In its well-written first hour, Jeffrey…
Seattle is full of climbers like me who perhaps once dreamed of ascending the fabled Nose route on Yosemite’s El…
Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker‘s more or less the Pete Best story—the tale of a poor bastard who gets…
Up until a couple of weeks ago, this nifty thriller from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) seemed about to bypass…
