In a summer filled with superheroes, special effects and "Sex and the
City" stilettos, it's downright refreshing to review a movie whose most
audacious effect is Abigail Breslin donning a wee cloche hat.
July 2, 2008
"WALL• E," Pixar's most recent effort, is a charming mix of sci-fi adventure, wistful romance and a dash of "Hello, Dolly!" Review by Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald.
June 26, 2008
Are we alone now? Has everyone who turns up their noses at "Sex and the City" the television series gone off to read something more substantial and less footwear-oriented? All right then. "Sex and the City: The Movie" is no great shakes as a movie, but it doesn't have to be. What it does have to be is a happy revisit to a land its fans know well, and on that level it works very well.
May 29, 2008
And so it begins: The Seattle International Film Festival,
starting Thursday and continuing through June 15 with hundreds of
movies, even more hundreds of lines and countless thousands of kernels
of popcorn. For the casual SIFF-goer, the question is this: How do I
choose, from the aforementioned hundreds, what to see?
May 18, 2008
The Wachowski brothers' "Speed Racer" is colorful and energetic — and ultimately disappointing.
May 8, 2008
It's getting so close, you can almost smell the popcorn. The 34th annual Seattle International Film Festival will unspool May 22 through June 15 at a number of venues around town.
May 4, 2008
"Knocked Up," "Juno," "Baby Mama" ... the uterus, it appears, is the
current Hot Thing in big-screen comedy. And it's used to fine effect in
the new Tina Fey vehicle, about a single career woman so desperate to
have a baby that she'll do whatever it takes — including disrupting her
life with the presence of a surly surrogate in her spotless
Philadelphia apartment.
April 25, 2008
PORT TOWNSEND When thinking about movie towns, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto make the list but what about Port Townsend?
This Victorian seaport on the Olympic Peninsula, with a population of only about 8,000, supports a film industry that would be the envy of towns many times its size: a wildly popular new film festival; an educated audience hungry for film fare beyond Hollywood blockbusters, and a string of feature films shot within in its picturesque city limits.
September 13, 2001
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