The 23rd iteration of the Northwest Film Forum’s venerable Local Sightings Film Festival kicks off today, Friday, September 18, and like everything …
Category: Reviews
On Stream: Matthias & Maxime, Local Virtual Documentaries, TIFF & NWFF online
Matthias & Maxime (2019 | Canada | 119 minutes | Xavier Dolan) Despite having collected a string of prizes (including a Grand …
On Stream: I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mulan, Local Streams
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020 | USA | 133 minutes | Charlie Kaufman) For arthouse film nerds, the weekend’s most anticipated …
Triumph and Trauma drive the Nail in the Coffin
Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro (Canada| 86 minutes | Michael Paszt) It’s cliché as all get-out, but …
Get Duked! (or Die Trying)
Get Duked! (2019 | United Kingdom | 87 minutes | Ninian Doff) Get Duked! (streaming on Amazon Prime beginning today) is one …
Teen Romance Wears its Chemical Hearts on its Sleeve
Chemical Hearts (2020 | USA | 93 minutes | Richard Tanne) One of the strange side effects wrought by the ugly shadow …
All Hell Comfortably Breaks Loose in Day 13
Day 13 (2020 | USA | 91 minutes | Jax Medel) Full disclosure, and no surprise if you read this website with …
Words on Bathroom Walls Views Young Love Through the Clouded Lens of Schizophrenia
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020 | USA | 111 minutes | Thor Freudenthal) Words on Bathroom Walls attempts to explain the unexplainable: what …
Boys State probes the dark heart of teen politics
Boys State (2020 | USA | 109 minutes | Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss) Each year since 1935, American Legion posts from …
You’ll Get Yocks, Rock, and Shocks out of Uncle Peckerhead
Uncle Peckerhead (2020 | USA | 96 minutes | Matthew John Lawrence) With his sophomore feature film Uncle Peckerhead, writer/director Matthew John Lawrence …