10 movies that I really liked in 2006:
C.R.A.Z.Y. - A fabulous, funny, rich, tearjerker coming-of-age film that won a slew of awards in Canada, played film festivals, then inexplicably went straigh…
Huh. Oh well. More than anything else, 2006 seems to have been the Year of Mediocrity, where the vast majority of films wound up in the “meh” pile, and only a few truly amazing or abysmally bad flicks…
For me, one of the treats of this year's film festival season was hearing the saga of my friends' short film The Raftman's Razor first getting accepted at the Sundance Film Festival, then barrelling t…
2002 has turned into quite a banner year for Sarah Waters. At 36, the Welsh-born, London-based writer found herself to be the youngest author on the 2002 shortlist for literature's prestigious Booker …
"When the rain came, it came first as the scent of rain..." - Kirsty Gunn, Rain Like a slightly faded and worn photograph from the seventies, Christine Jeffs' new film Rain, based on the acclaimed nov…
As much as Seattleites like to grumble about Paul Allen's bloated architectural monstrosity, the Experience Music Project (or EMP), one can't help but appreciate the musical treats that the museum has…
