What a time it is to be a pop star. When the arena tours have done a year of sales, you can share the experience with fans who couldn’t score a ticket via the magic of the multiplex. Taylor did it with Eras, Beyonce did it with Renaissance, immortalizing their mega-shows and collecting some extra cash. Between concert films and jukebox biopics, movies that feature familiar music have become one of the surer things in a shaky industry. Now, curiously enough, it’s Billie Eilish’s turn and she’s doing so by sharing co-directing credit with none other than James Cameron and in 3D, no less. The experiment and its result is mildly perplexing.
SIFF 2026: Opening Weekend Picks
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 gets the gang back together for nostalgic strut down the runway
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is primarily a nostalgic homage to the drama of everyone’s favorite not-so-fictitious fashion magazine. It doesn’t provide anything particularly innovative, but it’s still an enjoyable return to the world of the original film.
With stunning performances, Mother Mary conjures visions of a pop star in crisis
David Lowery’s latest, Mother Mary, shares with his filmography an openness to the surreal as well as the ability to give main character energy to bolts of fabric. Bolstered by two entrancing performances from Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, it joins his others as deeply fascinating and surprisingly revelatory examinations of humanity.
The Trouble with Normal
Bob Odenkirk is firmly in his “Liam Neeson phase”: a middle-aged man reluctantly forced to kick a lot of ass in order to protect what really matters.
SIFF 2026: Quick Picks Roundtable, Tips, and Tricks for the 52nd Annual Seattle International Film Festival
Starting today, tickets and passes are now available to the public for the Seattle International Film Festival. While we’re digging through the schedule and plotting our own agendas, we thought we’d start by each highlighting a film (or two) from the program that we’re most excited to see or recommend.
The Christophers: A tale of fine art, forgery, and failchildren
Julian Sklar has followed the familiar trajectory from enfant terrible to full-blown crank. Once a renowned artist, he now spends most of his time not painting and recording Cameo-style videos—often for mothers urging their children to pursue art (in this economy?). Dressing is optional. There was also a regrettable stint as a judge on a reality show that makes Simon Cowell look like the Easter Bunny.
Exit 8 gives us all existential (and real) dread
Imagine being stuck in an endless loop through a subway station hallway. If you aren’t meticulous enough to notice any little detail that alters from the “original”, you start all over again. It seems simple enough, right? I mean you just memorize all the minute details about every aspect in the hallway, but make a mistake and you start over… but the stakes start to rise, your secret innermost fears are brought to light and you could even start losing your mind. Not so simple.
Faces of Death: a flawed meta horror overcomes its faults with solid scares
Faces of Death (2026 | USA | 98min | Daniel Goldhaber) For an entire generation, 1978’s Faces of Death became the most …
Miroirs No. 3 explores the eerie kindness of strangers
With something always tantalizingly out of reach, Christian Petzold’s films carry a certain rigor of academic riddles, albeit koans populated by characters nursing their own quiet tragedies. With vibrant interiority, Paula Beer’s melancholic university music student becomes a makeshift bandage for a rural family in the wake of a freak car crash.