The Neon Demon
"I know how I look. What's wrong with that?" {The Neon Demon opens in Seattle Friday, June 24, and is screening at SIFF Cinema Egyptian,…
SIFF Take: Tag
I'm not even sure how to process the fever dream of a movie that is Tag, but I'll give it a try. The whole thing…
Recommended SIFF: The Lure
For the first 15 minutes of The Lure {Corki Dancingu}, I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie on Acid. This New Wave musical nightmare romance…
The Funhouse Massacre
“It’s not like the Funhouse is creepily positioned in the middle of nowhere with only a broken-down asylum nearby, haunted by the ghosts of its…
Crimson Peak
oh.my.god. It’s like Guillermo del Toro reached into my brain and pulled out the perfect nightmare marriage of everything I love and fear and then…
SIFF Take: Valley of the Sasquatch
Forced out of their home and with very little savings left, Roger and his son Michael end up trying to make a home in a…
SIFF 2015 Preview: NW Connections
You know I always have to run through the Northwest Connections program for SIFF! This year’s offerings include a lot of documentaries and a fair…
SIFF Take: Goodnight Mommy
Two angelic 9-year-old twin boys arrive home to find their mother in the hallway with a face all wrapped up in plastic surgery bandages. Mommy…
IT FOLLOWS
“It’s slow, but it’s not dumb.” ~ Hugh, IT FOLLOWS Imagine going on a date with someone you really, really like, enjoying a romantic lakeside…
Beyond the Fest: SIFF films that will (hopefully) open soon
With over 400 films playing the 40th Seattle International Film Festival, there was NO WAY I was going to be able to watch and write…