Jason Statham’s character in Guy Ritchie’s new movie Wrath of Man gets the nickname ‘H,’ presumably because anything longer would be a waste of the man-of-few-words’s time.
Author: Chris Burlingame
Phoebe’s Father was a hidden gem in 2015, and it’s being re-released now. You should see it immediately.
Released previously in 2015, Seattle filmmaker John Helde is bringing his film Phoebe’s Father back to the Northwest Film Forum to play in its virtual cinema and then become available on streaming formats. This is all good news because Phoebe’s Father is a hidden gem of a movie that affected me deeply.
SIFF 2021: Some short reviews
Reviews of All Sorts, Potato Dreams of America, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, Super Frenchie, and Too Late.
SIFF 2021: East of the Mountains destroyed me
The opening scene of East of the Mountains is not something I will ever be able to forget. Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon and widower of a year, is in his Seattle home, holding a rifle (a family heirloom, we learn later), determined to end his life.
SIFF 2021: It’s baaaaacccckkkk!
Y’all ready for this? I can hardly believe it, but it’s finally here. After missing all of 2020, the Seattle International Film …
Godzilla vs. Kong is big, dumb, and 100% unnecessary. It also rules.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021 | USA | 113 minutes | Adam Wingard) This is a snippet of a conversation I had with …
The Affair is a visually appealing movie with a maudlin plot
In pretty much all regards, The Affair is a gorgeous movie to watch. The cinematography is bold and luscious, the cast (without exception) is extremely photogenic, the costume design is fantastic, and there’s even some pretty remarkable architecture. It’s too bad it’s all for naught in this tepid, pre-war drama.
Mazel Tov! The Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicks off tonight
Tonight, Seattle’s Jewish Film Festival begins tonight with a total of nineteen feature films from throughout the world through March 18. It’s the twenty-sixth festival, and it’ll be entirely virtual.
Eddie Huang’s Boogie is an impressive, personal debut
Boogie is a coming-of-age story that revolves around Alfred Chin, an Asian, teenage basketball prodigy in New York who goes by “Boogie” (and who is not DeMarcus Cousins). Taylor Takahashi stars, and he’s very good at conveying Boogie’s torment. Boogie knows he can play, and thinks he’s got a good chance for a scholarship at a top university (Georgetown and St. John’s are options he has as a walk-on) but he can also be a bit hot headed. For his senior year, Boogie transfers to City Prep high school to increase his profile, but he has several altercations with his coach, including telling him that his teammates are “hot trash.”
Fake Famous peers through the looking glass of influencer culture, and that looking glass is actually a toilet seat
Fake Famous (2021 | USA | 86 minutes | Nick Bilton) New York Times and Vanity Fair tech reporter Nick Bilton has …