A summer without blockbusters? Josh: First, let’s raise a cold one for Christopher Nolan’s mysterious Tenet. Its ever-delayed release dates have been …
Category: Reviews
Radioactive spotlights the extraordinary life of Marie Curie
Radioactive (2020 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Marjane Satrapi) The celebrated Polish-born French scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie, upended our fundamental …
Dirt Music Brings Two Desperate Souls Together To Find Hope
Dirt Music (2020 | USA | 104 minutes | Gregor Jordan) A recent tragedy brings Lu Fox (Garrett Hedlund), an ex musician …
Palm Springs and The Old Guard reflect on when time loses all meaning.
Last weekend, two would-be blockbusters arrived on competing streaming services as an inadvertently timely unlikely double feature. In very different ways both …
First Cow beautifully celebrates the Northwest, Friendship, and Food Trends
First Cow (2019 | USA | 121 minutes | Kelly Reichardt) First Cow opens in modern times with a William Blake quote …
Roundtable: Our Favorite Films of 2020 (so far)
To mark the occasion of our very weird year managing to stumble across the halfway mark, Chris and I got together for …
Tradition Plays A Big Role in Seattle Jewish Film Fest 2020
I have to say, being my first year “taking part” in the Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF), I’m enjoying it immensely despite …
Athlete A is a moving, but incomplete, story of sports’ biggest (and very worst) scandal
Athlete A (2020 | USA | 105 minutes | Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk) It seems hardly fair that after ESPN gave us …
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 …
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Left Me Breathless
In light of events over the last month and bringing black voices to the forefront, I was excited to find Joe Talbot’s …