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I was pretty excited about the film selections I had lined up for my first couple days of true SIFF’n (Opening Night doesn’t really count). On Friday night after work, I caught Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite). Akin is featured as one of this...
Shoot, it seems like a couple months ago that SIFF just ended, but here we are at the beginning of a new, month-long orgy of movie-ness that is The Seattle International Film Festival! Now, normally I don’t go to Opening Night, mainly because no one hands me a free...
From the opening moments of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, you know you are in for something different. The camera is blurry and disoriented. It has a hard time focusing, lights seem too bright, then images disappear into groggy darkness. Voices come and go, and you are finally...
For such an immensely popular and acclaimed book, it was surprising that the film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner crept into theaters with a whimper, then slunk away to a non-flashy DVD release. What went wrong here? This film should have been HUGE. It sure didn’t help...
Banned in China for its rampant sexuality, but probably more likely because its depiction of Tiananmen Square in 1989, “Sixth Generation” filmmaker Lou Ye has created a film that is both fascinating and fragmented narratively. Plus he has also created one of the more aggravating yet strong film heroines...
Hayden Christensen plays Clay, a super-rich young man with a domineering and over-protective mother (Lena Olin). Clay has inherited his father’s riches, his business, and one might guess, his bad genes. Poor young Clay needs a heart transplant. On the side, Clay is in love with Sam (Jessica Alba),...
No Reservations, despite its star wattage of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart kinda bombed in the theater. It probably didn’t help that it was a foodie-movie beaten to the cineplexes by a certain animated Pixar film starring a rat. And it also doesn’t really help that it was almost...
A pretty white kitty named Duchess (seductively voiced by Eva Gabor) lives with her kittens in the mansion of her elderly Madame. I mean, I guess Madame is elderly, because she is actually kind of hot, with her curves and good posture. But because she has white hair and...
I happened to catch a trailer for the straight-to-video Snow Buddies tacked on to the end of another Disney DVD. I had heard of Air Bud, but honestly had no idea that these doggie “Buddy” movies were a whole franchise unto themselves. Without the baggage of having sat through...
Based on a classic 1930s novel (written by Noel Streatfeild) for girls, Ballet Shoes introduces us to the three orphans adopted by eccentric Great Uncle Matthew (Richard Griffiths) whose idea of giving his niece a gift is to bring home another orphaned infant before trotting off on another global...
I proclaim There Will Be Blood as The Best Movie of 2007 That I Didn’t See Until 2008. If I had managed to squeeze in a screening of this flick before the calendar flipped to 2008 and I whittled down my faves for the year, it would have definitely...
Why is it that former child actors always seem to make the transition to adulthood by posing nude or engaging in a porny onscreen sex scene? It’s as if they feel the need to prove that they’ve successfully completed puberty by showing us their bits and pieces in action....
