Mangrove (2020 | UK | 124 minutes | Steve McQueen) Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a group of activists protest …
Category: Reviews
Dr. Dorothy Lewis finds sympathy for the devil in Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane
(2020 | USA | 115 minutes | Alex Gibney) Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, his second this fall, is an important contribution to …
Come Away tells the story of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan before they were fun
(2020 | USA | 95 minutes | dir: Brenda Chapman) Come Away purports to be a colorblind telling of the origin stories …
PNB’s Second Program Brings New Magic to the Digital Stage
There are two world premieres on the bill for Rep 2 at Pacific Northwest Ballet (tickets $29/$39), and I’m writing this in …
On Stream and Blu-ray: Sleepless Beauty Paints a Pretty Ugly Picture
Sleepless Beauty (2020 | Russia | 84 minutes | Pavel Khvaleev) If Sleepless Beauty saw release two decades ago, its attempts at …
On Stream: On the Rocks reunites Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray in a sparkling New York caper
On the Rocks (2020 | USA | 98 minutes| Sofia Coppola) Despite a wide range of subjects spanning French royalty, a Civil …
Right-wing creeps and gullible fools beware, Borat is back, baby!
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020 | USA | …
The Trial of the Chicago Seven gives nervous liberals a chance to feel hopeful before the election
The Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020 | USA | 130 minutes | Aaron Sorkin) I don’t think there’s a television program …
Ballet in a Time of COVID-19
PNB is back. PNB is also backs, as dancers facing away from the audience is a real choreographic theme of their first …
On Screen: Beautifully lonely in Los Angeles with Kajillionaire and Shithouse
Kajillionaire (2020 | USA | 104 minutes | Miranda July) Writer/director Miranda July (The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know) …