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I’m writing this from my hotel room in Toronto, where I’ll be attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the next seven days. This has been a huge dream of mine since I started going to the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) in 2001. I’ve always wanted to...
At last, I have watched every episode of Planet Earth, the BBC nature documentary that aired on the Discovery Channel. Except “nature documentary” doesn’t even begin to describe it, because as the extremely ambitious title implies, this is our world as you’ve never seen it before. It says that...
Snow Cake must have had my name written all over it, because I circled it in the SIFF guide more than once over the course of the festival, and only missed out because I couldn’t find a movie buddy. The other day, my friend came up to me with...
I have had the biggest crush on Jimi Mistry ever since he starred in The Guru, one of the funniest and most enjoyable movies of 2002. I heart Jimi Mistry. So you can understand why I really wanted to like Touch of Pink, in which he plays the lead...
Contrary to the impression you might get from your average American sex “comedy,” it is not necessary to add vomit, animal feces, superglue, forest creatures, or anything else to the equation to make sex funny. It just is. Torremolinos 73 knows that, yes, it is indeed funny because it’s...
A filmmaker named “Dude” Schmitz (Mark Borchardt, of American Movie) and his crew (yep, including Mark’s buddy Mike Schank) get thrown out of a Britney Spears concert for asking her if her boobs are real. A drag queen named Robert Stephens (Angel Benton), winner of a Britney-look-alike contest, also...
Well. I saw The Core. Why? I have no idea. So you don’t have to? Actually, I shouldn’t say that, because by the end of this review you’ll realize that I’m actually encouraging all of you to go see it… under the right conditions. Condition 1: Be with a...
Synopsis: A seriously fun cross-cultural comedy that revels in its Desi roots, Deepa Mehta’s (Earth, Fire) rollicking faux-Bollywood romantic musical employs all the conventions of the genre to tell the tale of star-crossed lovers who fall for each other despite their better instincts; not to mention that they seem...
The setup goes something like this: Six women live in a mansion with a man named Marcel. There’s Gaby, his wife; Catherine, his younger daughter; Augustine, his sister-in-law; Mamy, his mother-in-law; Louise, his maid; and Chanel, his housekeeper. One day in the dead of winter, Marcel’s older daughter, Suzon,...
Well. What was I expecting, really? Before the screening began, a guy from Cinema Seattle came out and hollered, “Are you ready for Tamala?” and we were all like, “Yeah!” and apparently we weren’t loud enough, because he informed us that, we were not, in fact, ready for Tamala....
