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There’s something about G20 that reminds me of a good old-fashioned 90s popcorn action-flick. The substance is shallow, the characters are either cartoonishly noble or crazy-eyed bad, and the situations they all get themselves into border on incredible (as in not even credible). Without star power, these types of...
If you have ever cried at a concert when your favorite artist played a song you loved, you’ll find awkward Charles (Tim Key) to be a kindred spirit. Happy tears, complicated tears, sad tears… super-fans know what I’m talking about. Charles, a youngish widower, lives on a sparsely populated...
April 8, 2025–It’s refreshing to see more films about complex women, whether the difficult choices they make are selfless or for self-preservation. Check out these and other movies streaming at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival until April 13th. Blind at Heart (Die Mittagsfrau) Based on Julia Franck’s best selling...
April 7, 2025–Millions of Americans marched in the streets this past weekend on April 5th to protest the Trump administration’s reckless abuse of power, saying “Hands Off!” the Constitution and hands off our inherent rights in America. One only needs to look to the not-so-long-ago past to see explicit...
April 6, 2025–The Seattle Jewish Film Festival wrapped up last night with the crow-pleaser Bad Shabbos, starring Kyra Sedgwick as a matriarch (I’m in denial that she has aged into that role) whose Shabbat family dinner goes very wrong, followed by an always-welcome matinee sing-along of Fiddler on the...
I was having a really bad week when I headed into the screening of Snow White alone. I hadn’t been able to convince anyone to join me, as the film had gotten the worst pre-release internet buzz this side of Madame Web. Doomscrolling as I waited for the film...
Bodybuilding is all about excess—the athlete pushes the limits of building muscle, flexing in unnatural poses to pop and highlight different parts of the body, all while holding a forced smile as their almost-naked physique glistens with oil and tanning lotion. It’s a very specific and strange (to me)...
March 21, 2025–The Seattle Jewish Film Festival launches its 30th festival on March 22nd, with the anticipated Opening Night film Midas Man, a drama about Brian Epstein, the visionary manager behind The Beatles. That feature is one of 30 films the festival will be screening in honor of its...
Jack Quaid plays Nate Cain, a kind of dorky, buttoned-up middle-manager at a bank. He’s a sweet but reserved young man who happens to be crushing hard on the new bank teller Sherry (Amber Midthunder). Sherry finally asks shy Nate to lunch, then to an art show. But before...
March 3, 2025–It was just a couple months ago that the world watched as towns like Pacific Palisades and Altadena were reduced to ash overnight. First-time Oscars host Conan O’Brien seemed to find a good balance, keeping the evening relatively breezy (with an assist by the Dune sand worm),...
Harrowing, ripped-from-the-headlines stories of survival are inherently cinematic. Extraordinary stories of heroic folks pulling together to save others, whether dozens of trapped miners, or in this case, a single diver hundreds of feet deep in the ocean… offer both the thrill of horror and faith in humanity in one...
There’s a new President of the United States and he wants to create a legacy for the ages… despite his sketchy past that makes even those in his orbit tiptoe around him. A dude with an anger management problem, the President manipulates both friend and foe to his own...
