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We all made our predictions and picks for the Oscars, but every year more and more voters seem eager to spill the tea and share their votes with whoever will listen. This year, I rounded up as many as I could find to see what they reveal about the state of the race.
Wolf Man (2024 | USA | 103 minutes | Leigh Whannell) When director Leigh Whannell was tapped by Universal Pictures a few …
Nosferatu (2024 | USA, UK, Hungary | 133m | Robert Eggers) Writer/director Robert Eggers represents a genuine rarity in modern cinema—an idiosyncratic auteur who’s …
Gladiator II (2024 | USA/United Kingdom | 148 minutes | Ridley Scott) Director Ridley Scott’s Gladiator became a stealth box-office smash back in …
Italian horror cinema from the ‘70s and ‘80s has amassed a fervent cult over the last four decades, and one of the …
In a Violent Nature (2024 | Canada | 93 minutes | Chris Nash) Any filmmaker who takes on the tropes of horror cinema with …
The Primevals (2023 | USA | 90 minutes | David Allen) It sounds strange with hindsight, but there was a time when …
For the second year, the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has nominated the best in Pacific Northwest filmmaking as part of their annual awards.
Starting tonight, the 26th Local Sightings film festival beings its ten-day run at Northwest Film Forum (and online). The annual film festival …
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.
