SIFF Take: A Brilliant Young Mind
“If beauty is truth and truth beauty, then maths must be the most beautiful thing in the world.” A pastiche of gorgeous, even sumptuous color…
SIFF Take: How to Train Your Dragon 2
It feels a bit unseemly to trumpet such a mainstream movie during this Festival of the Wonderfully Obscure, but How to Train Your Dragon 2…
SIFF Take: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is based on an urban legend that a Japanese woman mistook Fargo for a documentary and came looking for the treasure…
SIFF Review: The Family Picture Show
This program is a highlight of the festival every year: 12 diverse short films united only by their appropriateness for all ages. Most but not…
SIFF Take: Turning Tide (En Solitaire)
Sailing is the kind of activity that seems utterly opaque to those who don’t partake. Like horse-back riding, for example. “How hard can it be…
SIFF Review: We Are the Best!
If you’re free for some SIFFIng at 4:30 today, I’ve got one to recommend highly. We Are the Best! follows 3 teenage girls through roughly…
SIFF double take: Muse of Fire and The Search for General Tso
Examine, if you will, two documentaries very similar in tone and structure: upbeat, pleasant, and curious. One asks a very large question: How do you…
She's So Unusual: Don't miss Cyndi Lauper at the Pantages Theater, this Sunday!
I’d like to say that seeing Cyndi Lauper in concert is a lifelong dream for me, but when I got my very own Cyndi Lauper…
SIFF Take: The Moment (HOLD for release)
You know what it’s like when you find yourself telling a story because it sort of relates to something you were chatting about, and then…
SIFF Review: Jump
Jump is an exhilirating time-running-out heist movie with meatheaded goons, a sadistic low-level crime boss, The Last Job, a crime that could save someone’s ass… all…