Set in the odd, sassy, and lush wilds of Portland, OR, Wildwood takes us on an adventure not unlike Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (sans David Bowie in skin-tight stretchy pants). Young Prue just wanted to take her effervescent and curious baby brother Mac out on the town (ok, to farmers market and a couple of stores) when their very loving yet super tight leash parents left for a knitting event (oh so Portland). Out of the blue, poor little Mac was carried off by a large and strangely coordinate murder of crows into the unpassable forest.
Orcas Island Film Festival announces 2026 Awards
In their twelfth year of running a festival on the gem of the San Juan islands, it’s basically a given that the small but mighty Orcas Island Film Festival will quietly drops one of the season’s most complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. The quality of the program is an embarrassment of riches and it’s basically in our backyard (provided that your backyard has a seaplane or a ferry boat).
The Sun Also Rises for Klara
Pity poor Klara, she’s a B1 AF (artificial friend) and the store across the street is selling B3s that can do anything B1s can do, only better. The B3s are better looking, more agile, don’t lose their balance whenever they go outdoors, and will probably not be found standing like a flamingo at any random moment. Obsolescence, like death, comes for us all, but it is often injudicious about scheduling.
You can see everything, including Billy Evans’s wiener
For some inexplicable reason, TV star Nathan Fielder (along with veteran documentarian Lance Oppenheim) was given almost unlimited access to Elizabeth Holmes and her boyfriend Billy Evans, an heir to the Evans Hotels hospitality group and tech entrepreneur, in their San Diego rental home. He is an omnipresent figure in the Evans-Holmes household and it’s a bit unsettling when we see him looking on during unguarded moments. The result is one jaw-dropping moment after another.
As expected, Whalefall is a claustrophic, anxiety-inducing thriller
Imagine going for a dive to reclaim your father’s remains supposedly near shore, but instead ending up in the belly of a whale in a matter of moments. It’s not some sea shanty… it’s a real thing thanks to writer David Krauss and writer-director Brian Duffield. Jay Gardner (Austin Abrams) has never had what you’d consider a good relationship with his father. Always being harassed for not following in his footsteps or at the very least chided on to appreciate nature in the intense, nearly fanatical way, his old man did.
Alex Gibney’s Musk is a gargantuan portrait of terrifying influence.
Gibney’s latest documentary follows the natural progression of this path to profile perhaps the most frighteningly influential of all: Elon Musk.
Orcas Island Film Festival announces guests, special events.
In their twelfth year of running a festival on the gem of the San Juan islands, it’s basically a given that the small but mighty Orcas Island Film Festival will quietly drops one of the season’s most complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. The quality of the program is an embarrassment of riches and it’s basically in our backyard (provided that your backyard has a seaplane or a ferry boat).
NAZA shouts horrible truth from the rooftops
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (part of the Oscar-winning collective behind No Other Land), have returned with NAZA. Now playing in theaters, and soon to follow online, it is another striking piece of documentary and journalism that illuminates the horrors of the last three years in the conflict between Israel and Gaza.
NYFF Journal: Double Freedom
Eric reports from the New York Film Festival on Double Freedom, Lisandro Alonso’s a quasi-remake of his 2001 debut, La Libertad.
The Social Reckoning is too much and too little too late
A lot of time has passed since the Social Network landed; the sequel feels almost as tired as all of us are.