A Seattle moviegoing lifestyle magazine
It’s that time again! We all picked our favorites at the end of the year; the guilds have spoken; critics groups have doled out their laurels; and now, two months into 2025 it’s time for the Academy to put a bow on the movies of 2024 with the Oscars. In advance of Sunday’s telecast – hosted by Conan O’Brien – airing on ABC at 4 pm (PDT) we gathered round the old roundtable to make our predictions on how the awards will (and should) go when all’s said and done in almost all of the categories.
In its 31st year, Slamdance may not quite have the name recognition as Sundance, but it’s certainly held its own in a time when everyone is less eager to head out to the theater.
I don’t remember much from my single-digit years, but I do remember having a fondness for Paddington Bear somewhere around first or second grade. I found him easily loveable and lacking any sense of maliciousness. When “they” started putting out live action Paddington movies a decade ago, I realized I still do.
Hulks are red, Captains are Blue,
Marvel’s comeback remains long overdue.
Marvin (Ke Huy Kwan) is a simple, easy-going and enthusiastic real estate agent in Milwaukee. He has his sights set on being the best of the best and it shows in every crumb of the fresh-baked cookies he makes for potential clients and co-workers alike. Soon it comes out that Marvin has a past he’d rather forget, a long-lost love (Ariana Debose) that suddenly re-emerges and a brother (Daniel Wu) who is hoping to wrangle him back into the family business.
For his entire life, second-generation Palestinian activist Basel Adra has lived under threat of the permanent erasure of his small West Bank village in the Masafer Yatta region by the Israeli military. Declared a region of importance for training, the series of small cliffside villages has suffered multiple generations of destruction and resistance.
Sundance 2025 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning from January 30–February 2, 2025 — online.
