Seattle International Film Festival 2005 preview
Look out -- here comes SIFF! And even though it's long been considered America's largest film festival, the beast just keeps on growing. Running a…
Turtles Can Fly
"They have to learn how to fight now." A beautifully wrenching and refreshingly truthful film (the first to be made in Iraq since the fall of…
Giant and The Constant Wife
Giant Book-It at Seattle Rep Leo K. TheatreThe striking image of a cowboy silhouetted against a wide blue sky bookends Giant, the latest fantastic Book-It…
Sin City
"It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes that means killing a whole lotta people." As I…
Melinda and Melinda
"Of course I'm communicating - could we just not talk about it?" Woody Allen's latest annual offering, Melinda and Melinda, tells two different tales of…
Nobody Knows and Dear Frankie
Nobody Knows I hesitate to slap the "horror" label onto Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest, Nobody Knows, though it certainly worked its way under my skin like…
The Secret In The Wings and Rebecca
The Secret in the Wings Seattle Rep Bagley Wright Theatre You can't like everything. Even when a night involves fairytales you can't be sure you're…
The Chosen, The Chris Schussler Incident, Sex*But
The Chosen Seattle Rep's Leo K Theatre Even before the theater lights dim, a man walks to the edge of the stage and quietly looks…
The Sea Inside
"How do you think I felt when I had to quit the sea?" I'll begin with a disclaimer. The Wonderfalls full-series DVD was released this…
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
While waiting for 1920s blues diva Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey to show up at a run-down Chicago recording studio, a motley ensemble of musicians who make…