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.
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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 …
The Seattle Literary Scene Is Ready for Its Closeup
In successive weekends, two large-scale movies that were adapted from novels written by Seattle-based authors came out (The Art of Racing in …
Upcoming Highlights at the Local Sightings Film Festival
The Local Sightings Film Festival kicked off on Friday night at the Northwest Film Forum. It’s now the twentieth one of those …
Who’s (Hopefully) Covering What at Neumos Bowie Cover Night
It took me approximately an eighth of a heartbeat to jump on the purchase of tickets to Bowie Cover Night at Neumos, …
Hearting Heartwood Provisions
I rarely get giddy about a restaurant. It’s happened, in all places, in Cleveland in recent years. As for Seattle, restaurants like Joule …
Seattle Symphony Pops Off a Beatles Tribute
It was quite a sight to look down from a box at Benaroya Hall Friday night and see a full, mostly white-haired house on …
A Cinematic Witches’ Brew, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
You’d think it was Halloween or something. To commemorate the forthcoming formal release of director Robert Eggers’ Sundance Award-winning feature The Witch, SIFF …
Seattle Symphony Sounds Out Luciano Berio’s Extraordinary ‘Sinfonia’
Exuberant, elegant, exhilarating, extraordinary but elusive could describe the musical offerings at an early-February concert by Seattle Symphony, with one work from each of …