A Seattle moviegoing lifestyle magazine
For me and the legions of devotees, every Paul Thomas Anderson film is an occasion. With its setting in the present day and its clear-eyed confrontation of the evil idiocy that plagues our current timeline, One Battle After Another is among his most urgently relevant.
Him (2025 | USA | 96 minutes | Justin Tipping) Not to mix sports metaphors, but if nothing else Him, the feature …
At this point, in their eleventh year, it barely counts as surprising when the Orcas Island Film Festival quietly drops one of the most astonishingly complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. Over more than a decade, they’ve been curating a selection of films from around the world that has locals and visitors alike flocking to the quaint town of Eastsound on Orcas Island to celebrate much of the year’s best cinema.
In the opening scene of London Calling, we’re introduced to Tommy Ward (Josh Duhamel), a London-based hitman on a job at a nightclub where everyone is in costume. His mission is to find and kill a man in a horse mask, which he quickly does; however, this man isn’t actually wearing a horse mask, he’s wearing a donkey mask.
Indie auteur filmmaker Kogonada gained fame with thoughtful movies like Columbus and After Yang. Now, with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, he’s trying his hand at a blockbuster romantic comedy. Starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, with The Menu writer Seth Reiss scripting, what could possibly go wrong? Sadly, it seems, quite a lot.
We follow Ray (Cooper Hoffman) as he prepares himself to take “The Long Walk”, a yearly pilgrimage not to the holy land but something much more deathy. We find he’s living in a post apocalyptic type of world where many are going hungry, under or unemployed, and desperate for even a moment of joy, wishing for the impossible dream of winning the lottery or something like it. Only one man leaves The Long Walk alive, it has no end until the moment that singular survivor remains. Moving forward, always moving forward Ray and newly found friends Peter (David Jonsson), Baker (Tut Nyout) and Olsen (Ben Wang) while away the hours shooting the shit just so they don’t notice their hunger, weariness and fear.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
