To mark the occasion of our very weird year managing to stumble across the halfway mark, Chris and I got together for …
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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 …
Shirley exposes the horrors of the creative process
Shirley (2020 | United States | 107 minutes | Josephine Decker) In her new film the actor, director, and performance artist Josephine …
On Screen: Traveling from Home
Last weekend, the film world was shocked by the death of Lynn Shelton, who over the last decade had established herself as …
On Screen: SIFF retrospective and Seattle Children’s Film Festival Online
In another timeline, this would have been the opening weekend for the Seattle International Film Festival. We’d all be buzzing over the …
Spaceship Earth Takes a Trip Back to the Future
Spaceship Earth (2020 | United States | 113 minutes | Matt Wolf) When eight “Biospherians”, clad in their Star Trek-inspired jumpsuits, locked themselves …