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Now, I know a few people that wouldn’t have been caught within a mile radius of a screening of a documentary about ventriloquism. But, heck, I was curious. I had a friend once (we’ll call him J) who picked up the most random hobbies, and at one point decided...
What I love about going to movies at the Uptown or SIFF Cinema the first weekend of SIFF is the fact that the Folklife Festival is going on all Memorial Weekend at the Seattle Center, right next door. Brave the mobs (and the mobs were sure out the last...
So this is just like Seattle: We’ve had a horrifically crappy spring, full of rain and cold and constant gray skies. Sure there were teasers of a couple weekends in the upper 60s and occasional 70s, then it’s back to 40 degree, dousing wet mornings. Until SIFF starts, of...
Set in 2018 Los Angeles, Terminator Salvation walks you through the nightmare future that was foretold in all the previous chapters. Intentionally washed out, the charred wasteland of post-Judgment Day Los Angeles hides cells of the human resistance. At this point in time, John Connor (Christian Bale), is a...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has stood the test of time for many reasons. Not only is it widely agreed to be the best of the big-screen Star Trek films, it is also the one that will make Trekkers cry (in an earned way, as opposed to...
Oh, you know you love it… we do! Here’s is the teaser poster for the much-anticipated Twilight sequel, cumbersomely titled The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The characters are curiously arranged to make little Taylor Lautner look taller than he did in the first film, but they are hiding the...
Starting May 7th (for SIFF members; a day later for the general public), you may as well trumpet, “Release the hounds!” as SIFF tickets officially go on sale. The 35th annual Seattle International Film Festival this year boasts 392 films. Among that bafflingly large number are 199 features, 54...
America’s Hangar serves as an introduction—really a very surface introduction—to the most popular branch of the United States’ most popular museum: Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. Clocking in at just under an hour, America’s Hangar probably would work best as a souvenir of the museum, or a way...
It may still be a few weeks away, but once the Seattle International Film Festival gets rolling, you’ll all know where to find me. The fest has leaked a few juicy tidbits well in advance (a trend they started last year when they couldn’t keep it to themselves...
Carrie Fisher, talented a writer as she is, knows that she will be haunted by a certain character that she first played onscreen when she was a mere 19. Who knew that the Star Wars franchise would be arguably the biggest pop-culture phenomenon film series of modern times, and...
Superman has gone through so many pop-culture incarnations, from the campy television shows with George Reeves in ill-fitting tights, to the super-sleek (and still tight) costume of the most recent Man of Steel, Brandon Routh. But still, watching the original cinematic short films of Superman from the early 1940s, it...
Let’s just say the producers of the Twilight series know their audience. With the immediate super-stardom of Robert Pattinson (even before the first movie hit the theaters) and the screaming throngs of teenage girls (and unashamed adult women) creating shrines to the swooningly hunky vampire, the movie producers have...
