Did anyone really ask for this?
Everything Everywhere All At Once contains multitudes, feel them all.
It’s not often in this age of the hype cycle that a highly anticipated movie exceeds already incredibly high expectations, but I suppose that a film ambitiously (and accurately) titled Everything Everywhere All At Once should damned well be the film to do it. What a tremendous rush to see Daniels doing seemingly whatever they want with an apparently unlimited toolkit.
SIFF 2022: Quick Picks, Tips, and Tricks
Starting today, tickets and passes are now available to the public for the 48th Seattle International Film Festival. Running from April 14-24th, the eleven-day festival features hundreds of films playing in-person in venues across the city, with more than half of the selections also available online. We’re still soaking up the trailers, digesting the full lineup, and strategizing the best ways to get the most out of this year’s event, but we thought we’d start by each highlighting a film (or two) from the program that we’re most excited to see or recommend.
SIFF 2022: It’s Alive
At long last, a sense of “semi-normalcy” for Seattle and Springtime. After last year’s fully-virtual festivities, the 48th Seattle International Film Festival is upon us, restoring to our fair city an excuse to venture back out into theaters (or to watch from our homes) for eleven straight days and nights. Yes, this April 14-24th sprint is somewhat slimmer than the monthlong marathons of yore, but honestly, it feels a little bit healthier for all parties.
SIFF 2022: SunBreak Index
The Seattle International Film Festival is a massive event that spans eleven days. We’ll be posting about it through the marathon of …
SXSW 2022: Midnighters Round-Up
SXSW ended a week ago, but Jenn’s been brewing up this coverage of the virtual offerings from the festival’s iconic horror/WTF section and just finished it up…better late than never, right? Right??
Roundtable: Oscar Predictions
After a very long awards season, the 94th Academy Awards will finally be presented this Sunday on ABC. Josh, Chase, and Jenn huddled together (virtually) to talk through the nominees, read the tea leaves, and make some guesses about who’s going to (and who should) win Oscars.
Adventure and slapstick abounds in The Lost City
Mourning the loss of her husband several years earlier, romance writer Loretta (Sandra Bullock) has lost all sense of inspiration or willingness to create another steamy novel for her fans despite a deadline quickly approaching. Tossing a terrible ending on one final book, she goes on a book tour to satisfy her manager, but forced to share the stage with the overly dramatic and cheeseball model Alan (Channing Tatum) who graces the cover of all her previous works. In love with the limelight and playing the character he embodies, he just wants to enjoy their time on the road…
SXSW 2022: Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi
Omoiyari is a Japanese word that means to have sympathy and compassion towards another person. This is not only the title of Japanese-American musician Kaoru Ishibashi’s (known professionally as Kishi Bashi) film, but the very soul and purpose of it. We travel with Ishibashi around the United States as he embarks on a path of discovery both of his roots and the two worlds he’s torn between: culture and country. Those two aspects are not in opposition, but his entire life he’s kept them separate and at times hidden; now he’s finding a way to bring them together.
SXSW 2022: Hypochondriac
Destroyed as a child through the violent fits, paranoia and hallucinations of a mother unable to care of herself or her family Will does everything in his power to forget and move forward with a normal life. He’s managed to find a loving partner, a decent career (even if he is bullied by an overprivileged white woman with no talent other than berating her employees) and a calm happy life. Things start to go sideways when his mother makes contact, first through odd boxes of cult-related reading materials followed by unwelcome and traumatizing visits. Soon his life is thrown into chaos and we start to wonder if it’s his mind playing tricks on him or has the world gone completely mad?