SIFF Take: Vampire
{Vampire screens at SIFF on Wednesday, June 1, 6:30pm and Thursday, June 2, 4pm at the Egyptian; and again on Sunday, June 5, 8:30pm at…
SIFF Take: Surrogate Valentine
Goh is San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura, and he is living the life you are, your comrades, or your indie singer-songwriter heroes are. Creating songs…
SIFF Take: A Cat in Paris
I sometimes like to play a little game while watching animated films called “Why Is This Movie Animated?” Animation is not a genre—we can all…
L’amour fou
{L’amour fou opens in Seattle Friday, 5/27, and is playing exclusively at the Landmark Seven Gables} Fashion junkies rejoice: L’amour fou covers every bit of…
SIFF Take: Boy
The film Boy, by Taika Watiti, is about a boy whom everyone calls Boy. He’s earnest and guileless, and prone to fisticuffs, but basically a…
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Well thank god Disney for a swashbuckling return to form after the last two abysmally long and confusing PotC movies. Pirates of the Caribbean: On…
13 Assassins
Gore-master Takashi Miike’s latest Samurai epic 13 Assassins is so much fun, I’m finding it hard to even start describing. In 1844, an arrogant sonovabitch…
Bridesmaids
Hi, my name is Rich and I'm a big fan of romantic comedies. But even if you don't have this particular personal problem quirk, I…
Louder Than a Bomb
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual team poetry slam contest that began in 2001. The contestants being students representing around sixty Chicago area schools.…
Something Borrowed
I'd like to tell you that Something Borrowed takes a gutsy stab at making something painfully unfunny, funny - but honestly, there's just no way…