Radioactive (2020 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Marjane Satrapi) The celebrated Polish-born French scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie, upended our fundamental …
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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 …
On Screen: Delays, Drive-Ins, SJFF, Virtual Cinema Forever
This week brought news that Christopher Nolan’s TENET has postponed its already-postponed release date to August 12. So, take that as an …
Jon Stewart mines familiar territory in Irresistible
Irresistible (2020 | United States | 101 minutes | Jon Stewart) During the course of his sixteen year tenure hosting a very …
On Screen: AFI Docs, New Releases, Virtual Cinema
Like so many before it, the AFI Docs Film Festival cancelled their in-person events for 2020, but the silver lining is that …
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods arrives at exactly the right moment
Da 5 Bloods (2020 | United States |156 minutes | Spike Lee) In another timeline, Spike Lee’s latest joint, Da 5 Bloods …