Sure, Taylor Swift dropped a surprise pared-down indie-rock album last week (Folklore), that hype’s likely to be easily eclipsed by this weekend’s …
Month: July 2020
Radioactive spotlights the extraordinary life of Marie Curie
Radioactive (2020 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Marjane Satrapi) The celebrated Polish-born French scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie, upended our fundamental …
Dirt Music Brings Two Desperate Souls Together To Find Hope
Dirt Music (2020 | USA | 104 minutes | Gregor Jordan) A recent tragedy brings Lu Fox (Garrett Hedlund), an ex musician …
Palm Springs and The Old Guard reflect on when time loses all meaning.
Last weekend, two would-be blockbusters arrived on competing streaming services as an inadvertently timely unlikely double feature. In very different ways both …
First Cow beautifully celebrates the Northwest, Friendship, and Food Trends
First Cow (2019 | USA | 121 minutes | Kelly Reichardt) First Cow opens in modern times with a William Blake quote …
On Screen: Blockbuster Weekend, Little Zombies, Local Festivals
For the first time in a very long while, it feels like something like a summer blockbuster weekend in the streaming realm …
Roundtable: Our Favorite Films of 2020 (so far)
To mark the occasion of our very weird year managing to stumble across the halfway mark, Chris and I got together for …
On Screen: Hamilton, Skate Kitchen, Thunder Road, John Lewis
It’s America’s birthday, but it’s hard to feel like celebrating. Still, for this stay-at-home holiday, there’s blockbuster-sized new release skipping the theaters …