There’s little point in restating the obvious, but I will anyway. We’re in the midst of a crisis, the magnitude of which …
Author: Tony Kay
Should You Heed The Call of The Wild?
The Call of the Wild (2020 | USA |100 minutes |Chris Sanders) The brand-new The Call of the Wild marks at least the …
Birds of Prey, an Alternate Take: Emancipation via Live-Action Cartoon
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020 | USA | 109 min | Cathy Yan) Birds of …
Guy Ritchie adds The Gentlemen to His Crime Cinema Rap Sheet
The Gentlemen (2020 | Great Britain | 110 minutes | Guy Ritchie) Guy Ritchie’s canon as a film director has alternately run …
Seattle Filmmaker Explores Friendship and Sadness in Acclaimed New Short
I’ve been following filmmaker Julio Ramirez ever since he wrote, directed, co-produced, and co-edited his feature film debut Nothing Against Life, which …
Tony’s Favorite Movies of 2019 (And The Rest of the 2010s)
So this is a couple of days late, but not (I’d like to think) a dollar short. All of my fellow SunBreakers …
One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying: Our Recs for The 2019 Romanian Film Festival
It still feels like the ‘70s in modern Romanian cinema. And that’s a compliment of the highest order. That decade was the …
Joker Isn’t as Wild (or as Important) as It Thinks It Is
Joker (2019 | USA | 122 minutes | Todd Phillips) There’s an alternate universe somewhere, where Martin Scorsese stopped making movies around …
Who’s (Hopefully) Covering What at Neumos Bowie Cover Night
It took me approximately an eighth of a heartbeat to jump on the purchase of tickets to Bowie Cover Night at Neumos, …
A Cinematic Witches’ Brew, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
You’d think it was Halloween or something. To commemorate the forthcoming formal release of director Robert Eggers’ Sundance Award-winning feature The Witch, SIFF …