Gladiator II (2024 | USA/United Kingdom | 148 minutes | Ridley Scott) Director Ridley Scott’s Gladiator became a stealth box-office smash back in …
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A Legendary Italian Composer Lends Live Backup to a Horror Classic
Italian horror cinema from the ‘70s and ‘80s has amassed a fervent cult over the last four decades, and one of the …
Slasher Tropes Get Deconstructed, In a Violent Nature
In a Violent Nature (2024 | Canada | 93 minutes | Chris Nash) Any filmmaker who takes on the tropes of horror cinema with …
SIFF 2024 Notebook: The Primevals
The Primevals (2023 | USA | 90 minutes | David Allen) It sounds strange with hindsight, but there was a time when …
Seattle Film Critics name top Pacific Northwest Films of 2023
For the second year, the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has nominated the best in Pacific Northwest filmmaking as part of their annual awards.
Local Sightings kicks off 26th annual festival tonight at Northwest Film Forum
Starting tonight, the 26th Local Sightings film festival beings its ten-day run at Northwest Film Forum (and online). The annual film festival …
Spider-Man Takes an Unmissable Journey Across the Spider-Verse
There’s a point (two, actually) to this rather involved setup: One, make a good enough movie and superhero burnout becomes irrelevant; and Two, Into the Spider-Verse’s brand-new follow-up, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, sustains its predecessor’s hat trick and then some. Simply put, I can’t imagine a better, more thoroughly satisfying mainstream movie emerging this year.
Expect a Pearl among Horror Prequels from the Follow-up to X
Pearl, the prequel to writer/director Ti West’s well-received shocker X, takes a character’s origin story—the kind usually dispensed as an afterthought in a couple of sentences of exposition or two minutes of black-and-white flashback footage—and turns it into an audacious, grandly operatic standalone experience.
Foo Fighters Go to Hell (sort of) in Studio 666
In an era where artists like Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake engineer their crossover film success with algebraic levels of calculation, there’s something almost endearing about a big rock band farting out a schlocky horror comedy as their first fictional feature. So the scrappy contrarian in me was rooting hard for Studio 666, the debut narrative showcase for arena-alternative rock band Foo Fighters.
Martha: A Picture Story is worth a Thousand Words
Martha: A Picture Story (2019 | Australia | 82 minutes | Selina Miles) Everyone’s a photographer now. And thanks to our cell …