A Seattle moviegoing lifestyle magazine
Fast X is the tenth F&F movie and it’s reported to be the penultimate in the franchise. Number eleven will be the final chapter. Or maybe not. How many farewell tours has KISS embarked on? Either way, Fast X is the first half of what will likely be a film epic. In 2025, we’ll see things blow up in ways people in 2023 never dreamed of. Consider it: Fast and the Furious: Infinity War.
For a few years in the ‘90s, The Seattle-born Jim Rose Circus Sideshow was everywhere. How this band of sideshow misfits scraped, lifted, regurgitated, and self-mutilated their way to international notoriety (for awhile, at least) is told with a veteran carnival barker’s rumpled, robust zing in Chickory Wees’ great documentary.
Two stories of adoptees finding their places, screening as part of the Seattle International Film Festival.
Reviews of three films playing at the Seattle International Film Festival; all will stream on SIFF.tv next week.
Short reviews of SIFF films, both about kids having a tough time.
Reviews from the Seattle International Film Festival.
It’s here! SIFF opens its 49th annual festival on Thursday night with Celine Song’s exceptional debut feature Past Lives. Here at the SunBreak, we’re excited to dive back into the city’s biggest festival for film fans. To help you navigate the deluge, we each identified a few recommendations for films screening over this coming days.
In an attempt at authenticity in his new film, the director, Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh), seeks out youth from a housing project in a rural suburb in France. One young boy, Ryan (Timéo Mahaut), is the focus of the film and while he creates the mystique and gritty character they’re looking for, he’s already neglected by an unstable mother, having trouble in school and barely hanging on by the merciful love of his older sister.
An annotated list of all of the SunBreak’s coverage of the 49th Seattle International Film Festival, which runs from May 11-21 in person and May 22-28 online.
We find ourselves back on Guardians’ base of operations with Peter, Drax, Nebula, Rocket and Groot, among others, trying to pull themselves together and find meaning in the new version of their day to day lives. After so much adventuring, ludicrous life-threatening scenarios and overwhelming loss (despite Gemora finding her way back to this existential plane), adjustment is challenging. Peter is trying to drink himself to death while the rest are building a new community amongst friends. As they’re settling in Warlock attacks Rocket out of nowhere and pushes him to the brink of death. To save their friend, the Guardians band together once again to seek out the key to unlocking not only Rocket’s mechanical body but the story of how he came to be.
